three thugs trapped by a blind adventurer

The opinion of the “World” – To see

In an underprivileged neighborhood of Detroit, a trio of thugs breaks into the house of an old man, played by Stephen Lang, to kidnap, for mysterious purposes but that we guess horrendous, the kid who lives at home. The inhabitant of the house is blind. But lack of pot, it is a former adventurer, trained in all kinds of combat techniques with bare hands or with various objects, who will make intruders spend a bad quarter of an hour.

In the first title of this franchise produced by Sam Raimi and which met, in 2016, a spectacular commercial success, the blind man was the croquemitaine, the monster who attacked characters with which the terrified spectator could identify. Here, we are wholeheartedly with him and he goes from “villain” to the status of vigilante, joining the short list of gifted blind movie heroes such as the Japanese masseur Zatoichi or the superhero Daredevil. A way of playing with the cheerful dialectic of infirmity and (almost) superpowers.

After a first part located in the house full of traps and gnons for intruders, a second takes place in the murky lair of villains guided by a terrible project. The violence therefore redoubles in intensity, which takes on the aspect of a discourse denying blood ties any legitimacy. What is not the least surprise of this excellent shocker.