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‘Smile 2’ Review: An Intense Naomi Scott Takes On Sequel To 2022 Horror Hit That Just Feels Like More Of The Same
A review of 'Smile 2' with Naomi Scott now caught up in sinister metaphysical being invading human bodies and passing on the curse in horror sequel
In Smile the key protagonist was a psychiatrist, Dr. Rose Cotter, played gamely by Sosi Bacon who in her quest to help her patients becomes traumatized by this entity and spends most of the film trying to convince people she is just not batshit crazy, that her visions and horrifying situation is not just a psychological problem but rather the real deal. That would be global pop star Skye Riley ( Naomi Scott), a person already freaked out from the effects of a devastating car crash a year earlier that also killed her actor boyfriend Paul Hunter (Ray Nicholson), and sent her on a downward spiral of self-immolation (she rips chunks of her hair out whenever the pressure is too intense) and drug addiction. With a few violent intervals that provide lots of work for the make up and prosthetics team responsible for coming up with stomach churning ways to die, this film, like the first, is mostly a focused psychological dive deep into Skye’s ever intensifying personal descent into hell with one vison after another driving her to the edge.
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