This post contains minor spoilers.
I walked out of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come thinking one thing: Samara Weaving deserves a raise. Not for the movie being perfect, because it's not, but for how hard she's working to keep this whole thing on its feet.
This is the 2026 sequel to Ready or Not, the 2019 horror comedy where Grace married into a family that turned her wedding night into a game of hide and seek with her as the prey. This one picks up seconds after that ends. Grace survives the Le Domas massacre, only to find out her nightmare has a bigger, richer, more organized sequel of its own. Turns out the Le Domas family answered to a whole council of elite bloodlines who worship the same guy, Mr. Le Bail, and now every one of those families wants a shot at the power Grace accidentally unlocked by surviving. She gets kidnapped along with her estranged sister Faith and dragged into round two.
What worked:
- The wedding twist. I'm not spoiling the details but Grace figures out a loophole involving marriage into the council, and the way she flips it against the guy who thinks he's already won is the sharpest thing in the whole film. It's the one moment where the expanded lore actually pays off instead of just piling on more rules for the sake of it.
- Weaving carrying the whole thing on her back. She plays Grace as someone who is running on fumes and pure spite at this point, and you feel every bit of that exhaustion. She doesn't play this like a franchise victory lap. She plays it like a woman who genuinely cannot believe she's back here again, and that grounds the film even when the plot gets ridiculous.
- The kills are still creative as hell. Someone gets taken out in an industrial washing machine. A katana accident sets off a whole chain reaction of explosions because the rules of this cult are stricter than most workplaces. Elijah Wood, playing a lawyer who works for Le Bail himself, gets to just stand there watching people combust with this dry, barely amused look on his face, and honestly that's one of the funniest running bits in the movie. I said I wouldn't use that word but I'm allowed one slip for Elijah Wood's face.
What didn't:
- Kathryn Newton feels a bit stiff next to Weaving. Faith is supposed to be the emotional counterweight here, the sister with history and baggage, but Newton's delivery doesn't always match the intensity the scene needs. Standing next to someone as committed as Weaving makes that gap more obvious than it would be on its own.
- Sarah Michelle Gellar deserved so much more. Ursula had real potential as a rival with her own fears about her twin brother, and there's a scene late in the film where she actually opens up about it. Then the script kills her off almost immediately after, before that thread gets to go anywhere. Feels like a waste of a good actor and a good setup.
Final rating and overall thoughts
My rating: 7.7
This is a sequel that had no business working as well as it does. Taking a tight, one-location premise and blowing it up into a whole council of families with ancestral rules and a "High Seat" could have collapsed into nonsense fast, but it mostly holds together, mainly because Weaving refuses to let it fall apart. Worth it if you loved the chaos and dark comedy of the first one and don't mind the world getting bigger and messier. Skip it or wait for streaming if you were hoping for something as tight and contained as the original.
Did the bigger cult mythology work for you, or did you want something closer to the first film's scale?
Drop your take below, especially if you've got thoughts on what they did to Ursula.
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