Given the film's premise - a blushing bride is pursued by evil billionaires participating in a satanic ceremony, this time joined by her younger sister - you might be forgiven for thinking that directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett's Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is acquainted with prolonged instances of jeopardy. This isn't really the case, the film's tonal dimension is much absurd and comedic. Scenes track towards clipped punchlines here rather than take the time to construct excruciating tensions that terminate on a retributive release valve. Samara Weaving's Grace, the winner of Ready or Not's previous attempt to curry favour with the literal devil, takes the majority of her persecution in her stride; soaking up an incredible amount of punishment that, a frenzied finale aside, isn't really turned back against her tormentors. It's not that a protagonist wallowing in sadism is definitively the preferred destination when considering this kind of highly personalised danger but, if you want an audience to consider something like a dimensionality in your characters, it's perhaps best if they respond, proportionally, to such slights. With that in mind, Kathryn Newton as Faith, Grace's sister (the actress looking distractingly similar to Virgina Madsen when wearing her hair up), is largely used as a substitute body for these absurd elites to work out their ongoing frustrations with an uncooperative and unkillable Grace. The slow-motion used to describe the pummeling that Newton's character is subjected to by Shawn Hatosy's Epstein class weirdo is particularly off-putting, suggesting that some level of decision maker on this film really enjoys seeing beautiful blonde women hissing blood through their pearlescent teeth.
