Five years later, a new film inspired by the shocking Spanish psychological thriller, A Platform, and the sequel, titled A Platform 2, was released on Netflix at the beginning of October – but its reception was not unambiguously positive.
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Platform 2. It took place in the vertical prison known from the original film, where the eponymous platform transported food between levels, but those on the upper levels regularly ate the rations of those below – often leading to starvation or riots on the lower levels. . The story can be roughly summarized for both films, as the second part cannot add much to the main story.
Platform 2: Does it only follow the first part?
The platform's unique tone and message about social inequality convinced many viewers, and in the four weeks following its premiere, it was seen in a total of 56 million households around the world. Let's add that success also requires timing, as the film was released on Netflix from March 2020, right at the beginning of the global pandemic.
The story felt like a real hunger strike, and many people accepted its social criticism, but it was difficult to come up with something new from the same basic situation and the same location. It didn't work out too well, as even though director Galder Gazillo Urrutia brought in new characters, they experienced almost the same situations as their predecessors – only perhaps in a more brutal and disgusting form.
Platform 2 was full of gory and traumatic scenes, but most of them were self-serving rather than serving the story. At one point in the movie, a past character also appeared, disturbing the time planes a bit, along with several other elements, and this was also at the expense of understanding.
Platform 2: Critics did not like the Spanish contagious horror
The new Netflix horror film currently has a score of 5 on IMDb and a 5.6 out of 10 on Rotten Tomatoes, while also receiving the most negative reviews on Metacritic, where it scores just 46 out of 100.
