The disease gets worse and grows in scale

jacotinto

score 6/10

I gave 6 to the first movie too,and even if my personal enjoyment was the same, i think the the are totally different: while Contracted was a "body horror" where we only see the protagonist getting worse and worse, Contracted:phase II's plot mixes a zombie/disease movie with the body horror, turning into something different from the first chapter. While the first movie was beautifully made in terms of makeup and symptoms, this is one is just...gross (not in a totally bad way though) . It's still well- made, but a couple scenes made me feel a little uncomfortable (and i'm a med student), so if you don't really appreciate the splatter stuff, this movie is not for you. The plot, by the way, is the clear continuation of the first movie (even with some scenes flash backed from it.) and i surely expect a sequel. What didn't really work is character development. There are way too many characters, all getting infected at some point of the movie, that are basically useless. That wouldn't be a problem if the main character, Riley, had a meaning. He just goes around stupidly, infecting everyone. He knows what's happening, so why does he decide to basically help BJ (who he obviously hates) spreading the disease? I'll never know. The only character with a meaning here is BJ himself, who is interesting, mostly because we know so little about him.

I'll watch the third movie, since i see the potential to make a nice trilogy, but this movie remains a slightly above average movie, not more, not less.

jacotinto 1 February 2016

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw3406823/