Awake not Woke!

Money grab. Modern audience.

Money grab from the people behind the first installment. Considering the recent trend to make money, sorry, to turn the woke down in order to appeal to normal people, I guess this is what they consider middle-of-the-road. May they keep standing in the middle, and get run over. Fox (male) is neutered, Bunny (female) is modern. So man stupid, cowardly push-over, and butt of every slapstick violence joke. Woman self-righteous, pushy, ungrateful and unable to empathize. Script is cookie-cutter, photography is excellent, nice little background gags, discourse is heavy-handed. At least, it was educational to my youngest: "Why does he bother with her?" Yup, raising him right.

The only real woke would be some DEI token characters and the ridiculous scene at the beginning of the 9 months pregnant wife throwing around and beating up large trained male police officers. It's only one scene but still dumb. Unfortunately the movie just isn't that great. The story is very cliché, it's the basic good guy has evidence on someone so he's in hiding from a group of people while trying to blend in. Except here he's doing a terrible job. I mean your apt has been broken into twice in 2 weeks and they try to kill you so obviously know where you are. He make no attempt to leave, secure the apt, take any kind of precautions or even tell his wife what is happening. He just goes about his day waiting for them to come back. The acting isn't bad but the action scenes range from decent to comedic with some bad writing. There is a rooftop chase that is very slow boring and uneventful. There is a scene in the middle of nowhere with the hero and villain shooting at each other when 2 random kids on dirt bikes come out of the woods. The villain stops and uses the last of his ammo to fire at them for no apparent reason other than poor writing to segway into a dirt bike chase. Said chase is also rather boring and leads into an embarrassingly comedic paragliding sequence. Even the conspiracy at the center of the entire plot is a massive stretch in credibility. It's really more of a 2.5 but I upgraded to 3 because it is somewhat watchable if there's nothing else or you need background noise.

Woman killer feminism with some DEI

Wank crybaby emasculated husband

As far a the story goes, spoiler free, the mystery is fun enough. It gets spelled out for us in the end in crayon. I'd say the pacing and intrigue isn't too bad. There's an absolute cringe undertone we have to deal with, though, and that's a tough sell. The husband is the weakest girly-man in the universe, a sad creep who makes me want to vomit. It's like he was forgotten in a women's liberation camp since birth and turned into a crazy weeping asshole of a man. After finishing this movie, I'm not sure if I can recommend it or not since it takes time for the husband to really amp it up. Watch the movie until they spell out everything that's happening and read spoilers on the Internet. 2 Stars out of 5.