The Platform 2 is a Spanish scifi/horror movie, a follow up to 2019's The Platform. We follow Perempuan(Milena Smit) as she is put into The Pit and now there appears to be some self imposed rules in order to have the food shared out as it descends the vertical prison, its implied this is a result of the events of the first film. This soon breaks down and chaos ensues.
The cast doesn't really distinguish themselves because none of them have much of a character to do much with. The potency of the first film was a result of kind of a perfect marriage of metaphor and narrative, the characters were not immaterial but not a focus. The same is true here but the ideas and the set up are basically the exact same as the first film so it becomes clear quickly that this is just a recycle. As a result nothing is particularly interesting, neither the plot nor the characters within it.
Visually it looks like the first one, the score sounds like the first one, nothing really differentiates itself in any way which is a problem, if the movies had been released back-to-back maybe this wouldn't matter quite as much but five years later all it succeeds in is making you want to watch the original. There is a "reveal" about half way through which recontextualizes the when which feels cheap, unearned, and lazy.
A bland, unnecessary, retread.
Currently streaming on Netflix.
Don't See It.
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