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Stake Land 2 (2016); AKA The Stakelander
Topic Started: Oct 17 2016, 01:59 AM (45 Views)
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When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant memory of his mentor and legendary vampire hunter, Mister, to guide him.
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It was on SyFy last night. IMDb is still using the alternate title, but I think most places are just calling it Stake Land 2.
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This was a good sequel. It isn't as good as the original, but the quality was much closer than I expected. I don't think I would have guessed that there was a connection to SyFy if I hadn't known about it before I watched it. The look is very similar. It is less gory, but the effects still look good. The cast isn't as good as the first film, but it wasn't bad at all. I wasn't as invested in the characters, but I think that part of that was that this movie was less suspenseful. It had the feeling like several very short episodes of The Walking Dead smooshed one right after the other. At the same time, I really liked how much plot this had. The first film covered a lot of ground, but I think a full plot summary of this would be even longer.
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Woah, I didn't even know this existed, lol. And I'm surprised to read that it's actually good. I love the first.
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I found out about it when I saw it in the tv listings.
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This here was quite the disappointing and really underwhelming effort.

Most of the film's problems are due to the fact that this one just doesn't have much of anything happening here, unlike the original which had a lot of enjoyable action scenes throughout. Instead, here the film is far more pressed for lame melodrama about the fight for survival in the wilderness and his search for his mentor that it takes plenty of time to actually get any kind of action featured within this one as we get scenes of him wandering around the wilderness meeting the loner family, finding him in the underground fighting club and the really endless scenes of the two of them hiking around with the captive woman that it really does feel like seemingly endless scenes that aren't in the slightest bit interesting and just really drag this one out.

Likewise, once they get into the new compound the scenes of them meeting up with the locals living there and interacting with them as they get integrated into their lifestyle also makes this one quite overly bland and rather dull during here. That also produces the unwanted effect of keeping the vampires off-screen except for a few brief encounters throughout here which is the film's only good scenes but it really draws out how few scenes they're involved in when it's entirely possible to see how little scenes they're shown and comes off as furthering how flawed this is.

It does come close to featuring some rather enjoyable moments here which is mostly centered on the vampires attacking as there's some rather fun, bloody sequences here that are part of the big encounters on display which includes the first encounter at the farmhouse which is really thrilling and gets in some decent brawling while the other encounters out in the wilderness comes across as rather bloody and exciting.

There's still the finale of this one which is where there's plenty of rather fun and enjoyable action here which really works so well in generating the required action that carries this one off quite nicely with plenty of gunfire, explosions and brawling that takes place throughout the compound it really makes for quite the effective and rousing series of scenes that really manages to get the proper excitement and bloodshed required to end on a high-note. Still, it's flaws here really hold this one back.
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I think I liked the plot of it more than you did, but I agree that they spent too much time wandering around with the captive girl. It really didn't help that I watched it with commercials.
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Yeah, same here. I caught it the night it premiered and the long stretches really stood out there.
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If you didn't catch it, it's going to be released on dvd January 14th.
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