Charlize Theron as andy in ‘The old Guard 2.’ Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025.
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‘The old guard 2’ receives 5 out of 10 stars.
On Netflix July 2nd is ‘The Old Guard 2’, a sequel to the 2020 movie derived from Greg Rucka And Leandro Fernandez ‘Graphic Novel Series About Immortal Warriors who Learn that their existence has been discovered even as they find a new member of his Kind.
The new movie sees Charlize theron ,‘Mad Max: Fury Road’) Back as no longer so immortal warrior andy, along with the likes of Kiki layne ,‘If Beale Street Cold Talk’, Marwan kenzari ,‘Aladdin’, Chiwtel ejiofor ,’12 years a slave ‘) and Matthias schoenaerts ,‘Rust and bone’,
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Initial thoughts
‘The old guard 2’. Photo: Eli Joshua ADE/Netflix © 2025.
When it is Arrived in the Pandemic-Darkened Days of 2020, ‘The old guard,’ While not perhaps the most examplary example of graphic novel adaptation to bother screens, at least had some spark and vitality to it, anchored by charliz theron strutting about as an immortal warrior whom After walking the earth for several thosand years was using her power of near invulnerability as a badass who took down terrible people along with a group of simlarly powerful colleges.
It was certainly fun enough, but now here comes the invitalable Taking time to make sure a movie is right is all the preferred to rushing a quick cash-into production.
Sadly, what has emerged is no Worthy Follow-up to that original release.
Script and direction
Director Victoria Mahoney on the set of ‘the old guard 2.’ Photo: Eli Joshua Adé/Netflix © 2025.
GREG RUCKA, From Whose Work (AlongSide Illustrator Leandro Fernandez) The movies are inspired, returns to script the new entry, this time with sarah l. Walker (‘The Twelve’,
But thought you might think rucka have the same handle on the characters he created as he did last time, this one is unfortunately burdened with Even more exposition, as the movie at the movie at the story Universe, but come up with an idea that only really really serves to snip dangling plot threads from the first movie in ugly fashion while
The story pauses between honestly disappointing action to have characters Sit Around and Talk in Boring Fashion About What’s Happening. And half the people in the movie seem designed to do little other than shoot or stab enemies and then push the plot forward in the laziest fashion.
Perhaps the most egregious fault here is how the film ends, the final Scene a giant clifhanger (with no third movie officially ordered, mind you) and the story left usatistan and largerGly point. The International May Have Been to Drive Excitement for Another Outing, but you’re more likely to come away not bothered what happens next.
Victoria mahoneyTaking over the Director’s Chair from the original’s Gina prince-byth health. ‘Yelling to the sky.’ It’s compent enough work, making use of a few picturesque shooting locations, but the set-spies all Feel Similar Apart from one or two entertaining stunt moments.
Cast and performances
(L to r) henry golding as tuah, luca marinelli as nicky, marwan kenzari as joe, charlize theron as andy and kiki layne as nile in ‘the old guard 2’. Photo: Eli Joshua ADE/Netflix © 2025.
Charlize theron is seemingly on autopilot this time Around–The odd quip here or there early on Quickly jettisoned in favor of Less-You of Less-Youlling Stone-Cold Solemnity. Sure, her character has lived for thousands of years and – – spoiler alert for the end of the previous movie – – Learned that she’s no longer immortal, but it has als als also als als also to a hollow version to a hollow Version Self. And it’s an issue even theron’s considerable talents can’t overcome.
Kiki layne as nile, the immortal that andy and her team discovered in the last movie and is now a member of their mercenary force taking down arms dealers and the like, gets in a few decent moments, but overone Else, Once the plot really kicks in, the energy drains out.
Chiwtel Ejiofor, The Mortal Operative who Learned of the Immortals’ Existence, is larger hanging Around providing clues and information via his contacts or trrying not to die. He’s less a character, more a plot device.
(L to r) Chiwtel ejiofor as copley and charlize theron as andy in ‘the old guard 2’. Photo: Eli Joshua ADE/Netflix © 2025.
The same could be said for poor Henry golding ,‘Crazy Rich Asians’), as tuah, a new immortal we meet who has dedicated his incredibly long life to chronicling the ancient warriors like someone written a fanzine. He’s sadled with even more expensestion and even when he’s called upon to fight, his style is so similar to always else else’s that that it all blends into one.
Spare even more of a thought for Uma Thurman – – if you thought there was the tantalizing principal of ‘Kill Bill’S beatrix the bride Conviction.
Final Thoughts
Uma thurman as discord in ‘the old guard 2.’ Photo: Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Flavorless and indistinct, this sequel has all the driving passion of a cold lump of concrete. The humor That marked the original has been seminly been surgically extracated, replaced with Rote Exposition and a Dull Expantion of the Mythology.
Possibly The most famous franchise Focused on immortal warriors uses the catchy phrase, “There can only be one.” On the evidence of ‘the old guard 2’, Perhaps there should only have been One.
“Eternity has a price.”
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1 hr 47 minJul 2nd, 2025
What’s the story of ‘the old guard 2’?
Andy (Charlize Theron) and her team of immortal warriors are back, with a renewed sense of purpose in their mission to protect the world.
With Booker (Matthias Schoenaerts) Still in Exile after His Betrayal, and Quynh (Veronica ngô) OUT for Revenge after Escaping Her Underwater Prison, Andy Grapples with Her Newfound Mortality as a a mysterious threat emerges that would jeopardize Everything Shi Years.
Andy, Nile (Kiki Layne), Joe (Marwan Kenzari), Nicky (Luca marinelli) And James Copley (Chiwtel Ejiofor) Enlist the help of tuah (henry golding), an old friend who may provide the key to unlock the mystery behind immortal existence.
Who is in the cost of ‘the old guard 2’?
- Charlize theron as andy
- Kiki layne as nile
- Marwan kenzari as joe
- Luca marinelli as nicky
- Chiwtel Ejiofor as James Copley
- Henry golding as tuah
- Matthias schoenaerts as booker
- Veronica Ngô as Quynh
- Uma thurman as discord
Charlize Theron as andy in ‘The old Guard 2’. Photo: Eli Joshua ADE/Netflix © 2025.
