Their presence on screen did very little to move the story along and seemed to only be there for running time purposes.ДЄnother different aspect in the sequel is the use of the POV camera - since we're primarily following these SWAT guys they have small mounted cameras on their helmets that we occasionally see through. Not only are these kids unlikable, but their whole sub-plot seemed completely pointless. The characters turn out to be a few annoying thrill-seeking kids with a camcorder that follow Jennifer's father (who left in the first to get medicine) and a fireman through the sewers that lead to a secret path inside the apartment, which I'm sure would have been used in the first had not been for the sudden death of the person who was going to reveal its existence. The film also suffers from a little filler sub-story half-way through, when we take a break from following the SWAT and focus on a new set of characters whom find their way into the apartment. The infected in this movie also seem harder to kill and turn much faster than I remember. Of course with the change of theme, the film does run into a couple plot-holes, like for instance why weren't the infected crawling on ceilings or talking in the first? However, one could choose to accept the fact that they had no need to speak since there was no priest there to call them out (not sure 'bout the ceiling thing though). We see the return of a handful of the key characters from the first (as infected of course), but some of their appearances are rather short, so you may end up missing them among the chaos. The filmmakers successfully combined two normally separate sub-genres and transformed it into something new and interesting. In this movie the infected talk and mimic voices and can even climb on ceilings! Fans of the first pic will be divided by the direction the sequel has decided to take, however I found it refreshing. What was once a simple infection film has now crossed into supernatural realms, dealing more with people suffering demonic possession than anything. The only way to stop it from spreading is to retrieve blood from the Medeiros girl and bring it back to the church for further study. Somewhere along the way things went wrong, and the possession has turned into a virus that can now be spread via means of blood or a bite. Hinted at towards the end of the first movie, the priest goes on to reveal that the Medeiros girl (skinny chick at the very end of the first movie) was possessed as a child and the church brought on a special priest to conduct experiments on her, in hopes of isolating the possession and somehow coming up with a cure for it with a combination of scientific and spiritual means. This is where the movie goes towards an incredibly different, but interesting, direction than its predecessor. At least that's what we're lead to believe, until the man from the Health department reveals himself to be a priest on a secret mission to retrieve an experimental vile of the infected blood. In this movie we follow a group of SWAT members, who are sent into the building with a man from the Ministry of Health to assess the situation and hopefully find answers on the infection. Sadly itвЂ™s not enough though and we end up with a severely inferior sequel despite the good ideas.A couple years after the first film's release, creators Jaume BalaguerГі and Paco Plaza return with 2, starting off literally seconds after the events of the previous installment. The final twenty minutes are excellent as the plot unfolds without the silly action scenes. BalaguerГі has actually managed to come up an interesting back story for the infection and if he focused on the slow building tension and scare tactics of the original then this sequel would have been every bit as good as the original. I really canвЂ™t stress enough how similar this looks to the countless zombie games that are flooding the market. The camera point of view shifts at various times from soldier to soldier which almost feels as if you are changing character in a first person shooter game. Gone are frightening scenes of the original that have been replaced by countless action scenes that simply donвЂ™t work and are almost incomprehensible at times due to the overuse of shaky cam. The problem lies with the films execution to put it bluntly it plays out more like an action computer game than a film. There is a much more complex film with many more plot points than the original that even brings in a supernatural element to the story. The actual story behind the action of Rec 2 is very good as it ends up going in a completely unexpected direction.

Rec 2 movie review