Rating: ***
Review Date: 8/16/25
Written By: Greg Rucka
Cast: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Veronica Ngo, Henry Golding,
Uma Thurman
Despite being newly mortal, Andy (Charlize Theron) continues to lead her team of immortals on dangerous missions to try and make the world a safer place. Things get complicated when Discord, the first Immortal (Uma Thurman), shows up on the scene and rescues Quynh (Veronica Ngo) from her eternal underwater torment. Clearly, that kind of isolation and torture is going to break a person's mind, and all she wants is to make the world suffer. Discord also wages her own personal war against Andy and her crew, and Nile (KiKi Layne) is the key to everything. Unfortunately, the film could have been resolved with an extra twenty minutes, but instead they decided to end it on another unnecessary cliffhanger with the hopes of making a third film.
Obviously, the first problem is how do you make a film about an immortal who is no longer immortal? This is the same problem that "Highlander 2" (1991) faced, and we all know how well that turned out. Thankfully, Tuah (Henry Golding) finds a nice little loophole in the immortal tomes that brings Andy back into the fold just in time to battle Discord, or else the film would have ended a lot sooner.
Honestly, I'm surprised the first film did well enough to warrant a sequel, and equally surprised that the production is of the same caliber as the original. Even though there's less action and less drama, I enjoyed this one a lot more because it's more straight forward and has less angst, bullshit, and infighting than the original. Andy is much more likable this time and has a nicer personality and a softer look, although her right earring is a constant distraction. KiKi Layne is fantastic, and she nearly steals the show. Henry Golding and Veronica Ngo are excellent additions to the cast, and a mean, bitter, and hardened Uma Thurman makes a convincing villain. The action scenes are serviceable, but not great, and like many action movies, the blatant disregard for logic and physics is appalling. The smaller scenes fare better than the larger set pieces, with the highlights being a close quarters fight between Charlize Theron and Veronica Ngo, and a three-way sparring match between KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Henry Golding. The music ranges from fair to poor, but nothing is particularly memorable.
Given the generally poor reviews and my disappointment in the first film, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up enjoying this innocuous piece of female oriented action fluff. I'm just not sure they have enough material to fill out another sequel.