A friend in college loved the movie Reindeer Games, and the only rationale he could provide was “Man, you can NOT beat a triple-cross!”
I was thinking of that friend when I landed on a four-star review for this.
Yes, Lost Bullet 2 probably hews too close to the first one. The original had a bananas melee with a bunch of cops? This one does too! What about those crazy just-this-side-of-post-apocalyptic car mods? This one ups the ante!
What’s amazing about Lost Bullet 2 is the number of factions in this movie and how they weave in and out. There’s 4-6 groups with competing agendas, and every few minutes we’re treated to a new combination of 2-3 of these groups facing off against one another. This makes the action scenes dynamic; even if we’ve seen some of these stunts before, we have no idea what the outcome will be. It’s triple-crosses all the way down.
That a movie can do all this clearly, simply, and in just over 90 minutes is remarkable.
