Eye Candy #553 - "[REC] 2"

[REC] 2: A direct sequel to the first “[REC]” movie (about an apartment building in Spain overrun by an infection that acts like super rabies, but has ‘religious’ origins as a Vatican experiment involving demonic possession gone awry, shot from the perspective of a Spanish news crew; imagine a building overrun by rabid Linda Blairs trying to eat you), this film picks up minutes after the first one, with a small SWAT squad, along with a doctor from the Ministry of Health, entering the building which has been quarantined and sealed off from the general public.  Their primary goal is to find the source of the infection.  However, once inside, they find out what they are really up against.  In addition to dealing with the rabid victims of the infection that don‘t stay down when they take a shotgun load to the chest, they also have to contend with a group of teenagers amongst other civilians that snuck into the building and are now trapped as well.  Shot in the same POV style as the first, with the focus switching from camera to camera as the action progresses  (the police have helmet cams, the teenagers have a video camera, as well as a third camera they find from the original news crew), it’s less jerky than the original for the most part.  The film  is equal parts claustrophobic and frenetic.  It hits the ground running, and doesn’t stop for 85 minutes.  It does kind of feel like the “Aliens” of the series (of which there are four planned now), but that doesn't mean it's not a well-done film.  Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”