Awake not Woke!

I didn't see anything woke in this one. Knowledge of the games is pretty much a requirement this time. There's so many characters, Easter eggs and little moments that will mean nothing if you don't know the games. It was a decent watchable movie but a step down from the first one in my opinion. The acting is alright but the writing is a good bit of characters doing stupid illogical things that make not sense. It also falls into the typical weakness of any PG-13 horror movie, relying almost entirely on cheap easy jump scares, there is almost no blood and all deaths are offscreen with only sound FX heard and nothing really seen. That's not to say there aren't some creepy scary moments but it's pretty tame overall. It's ok but the first one is better.

Lots of action with a PG rating... no woke at all

No woke. No DEI casting. Great acting. The action was over-the-top, John Wick style, but it worked. There's a lot of old-school stunt work. The only girl-kicks-butt was a mamma-bear situation. Spoiler: she got knocked out by the dude. The story is somewhat predictable. The trailer shows the majority of the story. Don't look for anything deeper than a fun action flick. It's a fun watch. Enjoy.

Since it's a completely different origin story with "character changes," I looked at it from "another universe in the multiverse" perspective: I kind of liked this movie when I watched it on TV when I was a teenager and kind of liked it. But now seeing it as an adult, I kind of get why many people didn't like it. Some acting & VFX/CGI scenes kind of look weird in some scenes. Kind of liked the dark aesthetic & little bit of body horror elements (obviously they didn't go far enough to actually make it feel disturbing; wish they would).

It's like a Korean Shyamalan movie

The beginning is really good and believable. The main character gets intrigued, then worried, then scared, and because of his fear, he becomes clumsy, makes mistakes, etc. Very believable human reaction to the threat. This is the only good thing I have to say about this movie. But then, it takes FOREVER for us to see the first monster. This is the main problem I had with the movie: everything takes FOREVER, and once something finally happens, it just keeps going on, and on, and on, until it quickly becomes either boring or annoying. Because of this problem, the OST has to keep repeating forever during many scenes, which becomes insanely annoying, too. When you finally see the first monster, wow! It looks so cool for the first five minutes, and then it magically starts looking like crap, as if an entirely different team took over the CGI or the budget was slashed halfway through the monster scene. It sucks, and every CGI effect from that point on sucks big time. And then comes the girlboss. Oh... my... f***ing God! Yes, the fearless, better-than-any-man, capable, ace-shooter, perfect-car-driver girlboss (seriously, make a drinking game out of every f***ing time she pulls off a perfect U-turn at full speed), etc. Of course, she has to be the one with the biggest gun in the whole movie (LOL), and... she NEVER shuts up! And by that, I mean she never stops yelling and screaming in the most annoying way possible. Seriously, her insufferable voice pierces your skull so badly that you'll want to kill yourself just to make it stop. Both the final sequence and the ending suck ass, too, more than you can imagine. I only watched this turd because I was completely fooled by the trailer. If you watched the trailer and you thought "wow, this looks good!", believe me, it ISN'T.