To sum up my feelings about The Old Guard 2, the cast and the story are delivering what they can with this sequel but the production feels so corner-cut it always feels a bit off. The story in The Old Guard films is good but Netflix feels like they are only half-assing the execution, Netflix not the cast. So there are so many moments that you know would have come off even better if this had been treated like a major cinematic franchise.
As someone who enjoyed the first film I still enjoyed this, enjoyed seeing the characters back, and enjoyed their further development. However I was disappointed in how much it felt like a second rate production. There are moments that would have likely had me cheering but everything had an air of low budget to it, and not in a retro-cool way. Do I still want to see more of this world? I do. I just hope they find it in them to really back this project and give it the trilogy it, and its cast, deserve.
That brings me back to wanting to shout out to the cast for doing what they can with what they are working with. Theron and her troupe never phone it in, even if Golding and Thurman feel underused.
*Spoiler*
The film boldly ends on a cliffhanger. And not just any cliffhanger. It doesn't even finish its story. This is like Wicked, Dune, Spider-verse, or Dead Reckoning level cliffhanging. This is really only the first part of the story and we end somewhere in the middle of the action. Without The Old Guard 3 greenlit this was an interesting choice. One that might leave fans hanging without any resolution.
The Old Guard 2
Starring: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Marwan Kenzari, Luca Marinelli, Matthias Schoenaerts, Vân Veronica Ngô, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Uma Thurman, Henry Golding
Director: Victoria Mahoney
Writer: Greg Rucka
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