Don't Breathe 2

 

Uruguayan writer / director Rodo Sayagues takes the helm in the sequel to 2016's home invasion thriller Don't Breathe. In that picture, a blind former Navy Seal thwarts a trio of adolescent thieves who break into his home to steal the man's insurance settlement for a wrongful death. Stephen Lang played the blind man whose combat training is more than a match for the three, who are not without their own set of skills. It was a pretty good ride.

In Don't Breathe 2, Sayagues amps up the gore considerably and ratchets down the plausibility substantially, as a grungy gang of organ harvesters led by the psychopathic meth dealer Raylan (Brendan Sexton III) go after Lang's daughter Phoenix (played by Madelyn Grace) in an exhaustingly depraved series of attacks where every sharp weighted object will be turned into a weapon.

The picture has little real cinematic value, if you don't count the imaginative ways Sayagues has devised of snuffing out human life when all the bullets have been spent.