Movie · 2024 · Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller · 1h 41m · R · Spanish
Curator score: 0.4/10 (302.9K ratings)
Hunger will be the least of your worries.
Overview
After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.
Ratings
Curator score: 0.4/10
IMDb: 4.9/10
Letterboxd: 2.15/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 35%
Metacritic: 45
TMDB: 5.6/10
Director
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Production
Basque Films
Cast
Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Natalia Tena, Óscar Jaenada, Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Bastien Ughetto, Armando Buika, Pedro Bachura, Antonia San Juan, Alexandra Masangkay, Emilio Buale, Albert Pla, Gorka Zufiaurre, Ken Appledorn, Hoji Fortuna, Mariamu Toure, Sesinou Henriette, Patty Bonet, Txaro Kandler
Where to watch
Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A grim, high-concept sequel that keeps the original’s brutal vertical-prison premise alive, but many viewers found it repetitive, undercooked, and more interested in reworking the first film than deepening it. If you’re here for bleak allegory, religious imagery, and another round of claustrophobic escalation, it can still hold your attention; if you wanted answers or a sharper expansion of the world, it likely disappoints.
Best for
Viewers who liked the first film’s concept more than its characters
Fans of bleak social allegories and prison-society stories
People who enjoy oppressive, high-concept genre cinema
Audiences open to ambiguity and symbolic storytelling
Skip if
You want a sequel that meaningfully explains the mythology
You’re tired of repetition and nihilistic escalation
You prefer character-driven horror over concept-first allegory
You dislike religious symbolism or blunt social commentary
Overview
The Platform 2 inherits one of modern genre cinema’s most memorable premises and immediately reminds you why it worked: the setting is the story, and the system is the monster. The sequel leans harder into religious imagery and hierarchy-as-theology, which gives it a fresh surface texture even when the underlying mechanics feel familiar.
Worth noting
The problem is that familiarity. Instead of widening the universe in a satisfying way, it often feels like a replay of the first film with different faces and a new layer of doctrinal dressing. The tension remains effective in stretches, but the film’s ideas can feel half-baked, as if it trusts the premise to do more work than the script does.
Bottom line
Still, there’s enough visual dread and conceptual nastiness to keep it watchable for fans of severe, allegorical sci-fi horror. It’s less a necessary sequel than a companion piece: interesting if you’re already invested in the pit, frustrating if you hoped to climb out with real answers.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Bandito29 (3★) · 4504 likes
Bro got beef with √-1
TheFreshBeef (2★) · 2571 likes
Some ideas are like spinach and eggs
It's better not to heat them a second time
Ivan Hachez (1★) · 1486 likes
Esta secuela podía salir de dos formas: 1. Que expandiera el universo del Hoyo, resolviendo todas las preguntas que nos surgieron en la primera (genial)2. Que repitieran el Hoyo con otros personajes y otro planteamiento y no respondiera absolutamente a ninguna pregunta (terrible)
Con mi nota os podéis imaginar por donde han tirado. Sumado a una trama pretenciosa que quiere parecer inteligente y una segunda mitad calcada de la primera.Lo único positivo es el primer cuarto con ese planteamiento religioso.
corey👻 (2.5★) · 1405 likes
my toxic trait is thinking i could survive the last platform with my trusty double apple vape
elvisthealien (2.5★) · 1261 likes
I'd ask for a jetpack, wait for the platform to pass and then fly to the first floor every month.