This text comprises spoilers for “The Outdated Guard 2.”
In 2020, “The Outdated Guard” grew to become a blueprint for the type of mid-tier motion motion pictures that may thrive on Netflix. The Charlize Theron car about immortal mercenaries with regenerative skills took its candy time getting a sequel, to the purpose that in July 2024, /Movie performed an investigation on whether or not “The Outdated Guard 2” was nonetheless taking place. The reply to the query ultimately turned out to be “sure,” and as “The Outdated Guard 2” trailer confirmed, the film even pays off the unique movie’s most horrifying second by exploring what 5 centuries of continually drowning inside an iron maiden has accomplished to Quynh (Ngô Thanh Vân). Spoiler: She’s not blissful, and she or he has the primary and strongest immortal, Discord (Uma Thurman), in her nook.
The “Outdated Guard” movie collection has loads of potential and will simply spawn one other sequel or six. Sadly, critics have not been variety to “The Outdated Guard 2,” which is sufficient to make me wonder if the collection’ story is perhaps over. Equally regarding are Theron’s feedback from her interview with The Hollywood Reporter, during which she revealed that “The Outdated Guard 3” is much from a accomplished deal:
“One factor I’ve realized on this enterprise is that there aren’t any ensures, and it is actually gracious of (Netflix) to not have pushed us into one other path. This was all the time the place we needed to land the movie, and it is also very harking back to the primary one. We by no means ended the primary one considering we had been going to do a second, however that was simply the way it occurred to be. So, we handled this one precisely the identical, however I am being fully sincere once I say that now we have completely no thought what that (third movie) would even seem like.”
Even when we by no means get one other Outdated Guard film, a face-off between Theron and Thurman is an effective time
Whereas it is comprehensible that Charlize Theron does not have a transparent thought of what the third film can be like at a stage the place “The Outdated Guard 2” is so recent out of the oven, her affirmation that there aren’t any concrete plans to observe up on the film’s cliffhanger ending is considerably irritating. In any case, “The Outdated Guard 2” wraps up with Quỳnh and Theron’s Andy making peace and teaming up in opposition to Discord, which all however confirms the plan is (or, as a minimum, was) to characteristic much more Theron vs. Thurman motion sooner or later.
The climactic face-off between the “Mad Max: Fury Highway” star’s Andy and the “Kill Invoice” veteran’s Discord is the type of thrilling battle between established motion luminaries that you simply not often see outdoors of the “Expendables” franchise, and I, for one, would undoubtedly welcome just a few extra struggle scenes between the 2. Maybe unsurprisingly, Theron loved the chance to work together with her colleague. As she instructed THR, she’s been searching for a undertaking to make with Thurman for fairly a while:
“I can not inform you what number of occasions we have developed one thing and I’d throw her title on the market. I’ve continually tried to drag one thing along with us, and I’ve additionally had so many individuals round me whose opinions I actually worth, say, ‘You guys need to make a film. Folks will completely like to see the 2 of you do motion.’ Her motion is so robust, and she or he’s actually raised the bar. So, I felt like I needed to actually convey it. She was going to convey it, so I needed to convey it.”
“The Outdated Guard 2” is now accessible for streaming on Netflix.
