There was the first one, no-one could believe it... there was a second one, no-one wanted it... and now there's the third one, and I hear a fourth is being planned.
Two extremely white people get together and wander around encountering badly acted exposition characters (including an extremely "subtle" [as in not subtle at all] person standing in for one Elongated Musky and everything brilliant he will do) and footage from other movies/documentaries. And spouting a lot of facts about Vertigo. Like seriously, James Nguyen really likes Vertigo and wants you to know this. It's vitally important that that one fact is driven home, if no-one else is taken away from this movie. Vertigo is the best film ever, you guys.
While the first movie had a "wonderful" song about making out with your family, this one has an upbeat song about how the planet is dying! Get down and boogie!
Finally, after two thirds of the movie (and after the obligatory "sex" scene, although I will give this couple did spend a lot of time together so their relationship is more believable), the Sea Eagles attack! By which I mean the terrible sea eagle graphic, because why not just lean into it at this point? And lo... did the white people drive around and get attacked by birds until they didn't...
The first one was Nanar. The second one, he tried for Nanar and failed miserably. This... this is just bad. It's not offensively bad like the second one, just that James Nguyen is either just that bad a director or if he is leaning into it, he's pulled back on the worst excesses and is coming across as merely incompetent.
It's too late for me, I'm condemned to watch these things, but there's no need for you to suffer. Just ignore it as hard as you can.
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