M3GAN 2.0

⭐⭐⭐⭐+1/2

Expectation: 🤷🏽‍♀️

Reality: 🤣🤩💀

This is not a horror movie, so if that’s what you’re looking for, skip it.

I didn’t care for M3GAN because I felt like the filmmakers couldn’t decide what kind of movie they were making. The genre kept shifting, the tone was all over the place, and while I find the whole AI-takeover situation unsettling, once Megan started running around murdering people it wasn’t scary it was just ridiculous.

M3GAN 2.0 is a hilarious action movie with a sprinkle of horror, thriller, and sci-fi elements that all work together seamlessly. The entire theater cackled the whole time, which was so much fun. I even shed a tear or two from laughing so hard.

This film is full of surprises. It levels up from the first in every way. The actors give stellar performances among some pretty outlandish circumstances and the writing manages to stay grounded and deliver some touching messages about the future of AI and parallels it to parenting.

They really went for it this time, and it paid off. You can tell that everyone involved was 100% committed, which is what a film like this needs!

Honestly, this is what I wanted from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning—an ensemble cast working together to tell a good story, characters with heart and lives that exist outside of their connection to the lead, action sequences that are well-paced and drive the story forward, and a handful of surprises that make me gasp. The comedy was the cherry on top.

I docked half a star for minor story elements that didn’t totally make sense. In a film like this everything doesn’t need to make sense, it’s by design that it doesn’t, but it was a couple things that made me pause and wonder and took me out of it for a second.

Well done, Blumhouse.