The Platform 2: What Is It About & Does It Deserve Its Disastrous 28% on RT?

On October 4, the sci-fi thriller The Platform 2 was released on Netflix. This is a sequel to the Spanish hit about a hellish buffet, which was released by the same Netflix in March 2020 and made a lot of noise.

We tell you if the sequel adds anything interesting to the setting of the first movie and how justified the sequel's appearance is.

What Is The Platform 2 About?

A multi-story prison with a mobile platform of delicious treats has a new addition: a young woman named Perempuan and a man named Zamiatin are housed on one of the 24 floors.

The setting itself is even stranger than the characters' names: the upper floors are provided with a variety of food, while the lower floors starve. Once a month there is a random rotation, but if you are at the bottom, you still have to somehow hold out for that month.

Two people live on each floor, and each has the right to order any dish that appears on the platform prior to their imprisonment, and to take one item with them. In the early stages, the prisoners somehow try to follow the unspoken rule: eat only your own food and do not touch anyone else's. But human nature suggests that someone will be tempted by a neighbor's plate, with disastrous consequences.

The Platform 2 Repeats the Fate of Joker: Folie à Deux

Like Joker: Folie à Deux, The Platform 2 is another unnecessary sequel that the world did not ask for. The first movie left a unique, long-lasting impression and became a pleasant surprise from Spanish cinema.

The movie offered its own interesting concept, inspired by Cube by Vincenzo Natali and the dystopian Snowpiercer, without forgetting the social commentary.

The writers of the sequel obviously did not come together for the second time to multiply the achievements of the first film and to lift the veil of secrecy of the strange place of detention. They do not add anything worthwhile to this mysterious setting.

The Platform 2 Doesn't Answer Any Questions, It Just Adds New Ones

It seems as if the Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia himself, after his unexpected triumph, did not know how to make the best use of it and what exactly he wanted to convey to the audience in the sequel. And that is because there is nothing left to convey, because everything important was said in the first movie.

The sequel not only fails to provide the desired answers to the questions that might have arisen after watching the first film, but raises even more questions that are unlikely to be answered. This risks becoming the main factor in the rejection of viewers who deserve at least some indication of what kind of social experiment this is and who is behind it.