“Don’t Breathe 2,” in which Stephen Lang once again portrays a furious blind Gulf War veteran who fends off a handful of intruders in brutal makeshift ways, is a worthy enough sequel to…
once again portrays a furious blind Gulf War veteran who fends off a handful of intruders in brutal makeshift ways, is a worthy enough sequel to “Don’t Breathe” — and yes, that’s about half a compliment. The original, released in 2016, was a jacked-up home invasion thriller with horror elements, but as staged by the director Fede Alvarez, it stayed tethered to a certain nuts-and-bolts, drive-in-movie-from-the-past reality.
“Don’t Breathe” was a sleeper hit, taking in $89 million at the box office , and striking while the iron was hot would have been the smart play. Pandemic issues aside, I have no idea why “Don’t Breathe 2” is coming out so many years later, but apart from that gap the sequel incorporates several key changes. Alvarez is no longer the director; his screenwriting partner, Rodo Sayagues, is — and though he does a competent job, he doesn’t match the stylish claustrophobia of the original.
That may be disappointing to some, but Lang, thin and muscular in his white hair and beard and grimy sleeveless T-shirt, remains the best thing about the movie. He’s 69 now, and he plays Nordstrom as a raspy, broken figure whose anguish lends him a singular strength. He keeps getting pummeled and stabbed, but he keeps coming back. It’s the rare action turn I would describe as a performance of real feeling; Lang makes you experience every slice of his flesh as a small wound to the soul.
For a while, in his scrubby stately home in Detroit, Nordstrom has to save himself and Phoenix from a trio of intruders who are pure sociopathic slime, and this part of the movie is fairly standard.
The way sequel culture now works, yesterday’s grungy one-off set in somebody’s basement becomes today’s…universe? That’s what happened with the “Saw” films, which in addition to making the world safe for torture-porn numbness became as much of a cosmology as the “Avengers” films.
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