Ready or Not 2 review: Bigger but not better

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come picks up immediately after the first film, with bride Grace Le Domas sitting on the steps of the Le Domas manor as police arrive. By surviving until dawn she not only provokes an absurdly gory family collapse but also sparks a power struggle among other rich families bound by their own Satanic pacts.

Grace is briefly hospitalized, her estranged sister Faith is called, and the two are soon kidnapped to an isolated casino resort for a new ritual hunt—one in which Grace’s prior injuries barely slow her down. The sequel shines when it leans into dysfunctional family humor.

While representatives of each clan chase the sisters around the resort, their relatives snack and watch from a penthouse like depraved sports fans. The Lawyer, played with eerie calm by Elijah Wood, provides a strong foil in tense adjudication scenes, and those exchanges are among the film’s best moments.

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