Picking up directly where first film in 2004 ended. This film is set ten years after the Feng Shui , The 'cursed bagua' went into possession of Lester (Martin), a jack-of-all-trades. He is willing to do every single job offered to him, even dirty and illegal works. But after the arrival of the 'cursed bagua' in his life, everything is about to change. But soon, he realizes that all the luck he is getting has deadly consequences. On the other hand, the previous owners of the 'bagua' are being drawn together by the curse. It's as if their luck has back fired against them. Can Joy (Aquino) save them from the deadly curse of 'Lotus Feet' , even if the curse has spawned another force- Lotus Feet's lost twin sister- who is also set to take more souls.
Cast :
Kris Aquino as Joy Ramirez
Coco Martin as Lester Anonuevo
Cherry Pie Picache as Lily Mendoza
Carmi Martin as lester's mother
Ian Veneracion as Doug, head of security and Joy's boyfriend
Joonee Gamboa as Hsui Liao
Beauty Gonzalez as Ellen, Lester's girlfriend
Rez Cortez as Lester's father
Ian de Leon
Martin Escudero as one of Lester's friend
Teodoro Baldomaro
Diana Zubiri
Elizabeth Chua
Pinky Marquez
Raikko Mateo
Kych Cyl Minemoto
Randy See
Jenine Desiderio
Emil Sandoval as Evart Mendoza
Froilan Sales
Rosita Lim
Kurt Joshua Ong
SPOILER ALERT!!
My notes on Feng Shui 2:
1. Rono mentioned in a recent interview that he didn't want to do a sequel since he didn't want to make the same movie. He named this Feng Shui and it was supposed to be a continuation of the original story. The title was apt since it was basically a retread of the original.
2. The previously novel idea of people dying based on their animal signs proved to be stale this time around. Who could forget the well-thought out sequence in the original where Lotlot de Leon (born on the year of the horse) got hit by an ironing board and fell to her death on cases of Red Horse? None of the deaths here had the same impact.
3. Every death had to be explained and every animal connection had to be in full view just in case the audience didn't get it. What happened to subtlety? We're not idiots.
4. Rat killer, Red Bull, Doug wearing a dogtag, Playboy shirt and Red Rabbit fire extinguisher, Snake Island truck, chicharon, these were the best that they could think of?
5. Bad dubbing. Really bad dubbing.
6. A lot of the characters here had never seen a bagua. I guess they weren't able to watch the original movie.
7. Am I the only one who found it funny that a movie about karma (or close to it) actually starred Carmi Martin? Carmi Martin was really just around the corner.
8. As expected, there were mini-commercials shilling products endorsed by the stars. And so we got all the reasons why we needed to buy Nxled lights by Akari. I suddenly missed that Chunkee dinner scene in the original.
9. One clunky scene had Coco being thrown around by an invisible being. The special effect was too funny. And too lame. What was that?
10. And yet another scene was ripped from The Grudge (the eye and hair shot, you'll remember when you see it).
11. Kris Aquino had this perpetually constipated look like she was watching Darla consume a whole lechon.
12. I guess all the zumba did her good with all those running scenes.
13. I saw the movie with the noisiest crowd ever (both fun and annoying at the same time). They were screaming their heads off as soon as the lights dimmed. I think they had lots of fun shouting in every scare scene regardless if these weren't really scary.
14. The ending hinted at another sequel (hey Direk Chito what happened to that no sequel thingie?) and the final scene tried to be social media relevant with the bagua being shared online. So the third movie will be The Ring? Digital na ang karma? Wait, you can't see your reflection on a picture! How will that work? I give up.
Movie Rate : ★☆☆☆☆
Directed by Chito Roño and produced by Star Cinema and Kris Aquino Productions.
It is also the first Filipino movie to be rendered in 4D and it will be exclusively be shown at the XD Theater.
Movie Review by : Jason Javier
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