Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is the sequel to the 2023 horror movie “Five Nights at Freddy’s.” This sequel stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Piper Rubio (For All Mankind), Elizabeth Lail (You), Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo), and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld).

It’s been a year since the terrifying events went down at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Abby (Rubio) misses her animatronic friends and decides to sneak out one night to find them. When she breaks in at night to a second closed location of Fazbear’s Pizza believing her friends are there, she unknowingly unleashes a new evil and wave of animatronics who are hell bent on bringing revenge on parents everywhere.

I went and saw this one on opening night, and just like when I saw the first one, I still haven’t played any of the video games. So, my entire review is going off of how good of a sequel it is and not compared to the games themselves. The original cast returns for this one, and there are several references to the first movie throughout the film as well as some nods to the video game. There are some good action scenes in it, and a pretty good kill scene. Overall, it’s not super action packed. It tries to rely on a creepiness factor with a new character that is introduced. I didn’t really find it creepy or scary but it’s a good horror film for a teenager or fan of the games. There are some loopholes. The biggest being an entire Fazbear’s Pizza location that is in bike riding distance for Abby, but yet no one knows it’s there in the movie. How can you have a closed down Fazbear’s location especially with what happened after the first movie, but yet have no clue of its existence? Overall, it’s not a bad watch, and it’s a good sequel that sets up for another one. I think it’s going to be like the “Scream” franchises, where they ride it until the wheels fall off. I give it a 6.5/10.

The Beekeeper

“The Beekeeper” is a 2024 Action movie starring Jason Statham (The Transporter), Emmy Raver-Lampman (The Umbrella Academy), Bobby Naderi (Bright), Josh Hutcherson (Five Nights at Freddy’s), and Jeremy Irons (House of Gucci).

Jason Statham is a beekeeper who has rented a space from an elderly lady where he can take care of his bees and jar his honey. His elderly landlord is targeted by sophisticated scamming organization that targets the elderly. After they drain all her accounts, including an account she has for a charity, she ends up taking her own life. Jason Statham is not just only a beekeeper in the literal sense but also part of a highly classified outfit known as the beekeepers. It is one of the deadliest outfits in the entire world. Now Jason Statham is going to take the entire scamming outfit down no matter how deep it runs.

This movie is classic Jason Statham. It’s nonstop fighting the entire movie and it doesn’t slow down. It’s creative and the story line is good. Sure, it has it’s not very believable moments, and cheesy moments, but what action movie doesn’t? It’s not meant to be a deep film. You have to take it at face value, Jason Statham running around killing a bunch of people. I’m a big Jason Statham fan, I love the majority of his movies, and this is one of his better ones. I give it an 8/10.

Five Nights at Freddy’s

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” is a 2023 Blumhouse horror movie based off the popular video game series with the same name. It stars Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy), Elizabeth Lail (You), and Matthew Lillard (Scooby-Doo).

A man, who is taking care of his sister, is struggling to make ends meet so he takes a job as a night security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. An abandoned Chucky Cheese style pizzeria that was big in the 80’s, complete with a full animatronic band. The job seems simple enough, keep looters, and vagrants out. One big problem though, the animatronic band is possessed by the ghosts of dead children who have murderous intentions.

This looked like a movie that could go either way, but with murderous animatronics it definitely has a creepy vibe to it, so I figured I would check it out. I haven’t played any of the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” games, so I don’t really know the lore behind it. If so, I probably would have enjoyed it more. To me, it was pretty boring. It’s a lot of build up with very little return. The animatronics aren’t in it a whole lot till about the last 30 minutes or so, before that it’s a slow ride. The last 30 minutes does save it some, but not enough to give it a real high score. When the lights came on there was a huge ovation, I looked around and it was a theater full of kids 12 and younger. Take that as you will, but it’s probably more of a horror suited for teens. I give it a 6/10.