Review of Creep 2 (2017) by Jluis_001 — 25 Oct 2017

In all honesty I **** hated the first one, I could never figure it out why so many acclaimed it. It was boring, flat, devoid of scares, poorly written, poorly directed and only Mark Duplass did a respectable work. An irrelevant film that I soon forgot.

Few months ago I heard about a sequel, I couldn't understand how but here we are and once again I faced a huge dissapointment.

Unfortunately, Creep 2 does not improve anything of the original, the narrative device uses the same things, it's true that the semblance is different, after all the murderer has confessed that he is a murderer but that is where the biggest mistake of the film lies, which also was one of the greatest of the original: the stupidity and ingenuity of those who are recording him.

Sara, Desiree Akhavan's character - who is recording him and still does not believe that he is a serial killer - she believes she's in control of the situation but she never is, she's not even really sure of what she's doing but still she does it anyway.

Basically the first 50 minutes of this movie are very boring and sadly Duplass's character fails to be that creep of the title and becomes more of a comical character, even though you as an spectator know that he is an extremely dangerous guy, and that is the problem, you already infer it because you already know him, otherwise you would be only thinking that he's a very odd dude.

The movie takes solidity towards the final half hour, the tone and the atmosphere become darker without a doubt, it intrigues you more to know what will happen because now you as an spectator know in which terrain the two characters are playing, although one of them ignores it .

The ending becomes interesting although it gets lost very soon and the conclusion is very poor and what insinuates is even more annoying taking into account that it does not provide any answers.

If you loved the first one, you will love this one, in my case just like its predecessor, it did nothing for me.