M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

 

M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

5/10

Starring          

Allison Williams

Violet McGraw

Ivanna Sakhno

Jemaine Clement

Directed by Gerald Johnstone

 

I’ll be honest with you, the moment I saw the runtime, I was worried. Two hours felt a bit long to watch M3GAN go at it again, and I was right, this movie is long and boring.

I thought it would come from a different angle, but it didn’t. I have to warn you ahead, this movie is very very slow. You won’t think so at first because it starts with some amazing action sequences during the demonstration of AMELIA, who is an android built on the same tech as M3GAN. Just when the demo is about to end, the U.S. military loses control of AMELIA.

From there, the movie just drags. Long stretches of people talking and talking about this and that, eventually discovering that M3GAN is still around, secretly watching over Cady, before we finally get some more action.

I’ll be honest, the action and fight scenes are good and captivating. But the story that leads to them will make you sleepy.

Cady’s acting in this one was so below par. After the first action sequence, she walks us through what’s happened between the first M3GAN movie and now.

Her aunt Gemma, who created M3GAN, is now an advocate trying to change the world, telling people to rely less on AI, and children should have less screen time, all to make sure people don’t get consumed by tech, which was the root of the incidents in the first film two years ago.

Cady has picked up new hobbies to pass time, thanks to her aunt’s anti-tech rules. If you remember, at the end of the first movie, the tech behind M3GAN ended up in the wrong hands, who then created and sold to the government AMELIA, a lethal military android who’s now gone rogue.

To stop AMELIA, Gemma is contacted for help. She refuses. But M3GAN, still lurking in the shadows, convinces her to bring her back so she can take AMELIA down. So the movie shifts from horror to sci-fi, and it seems we are watching a full-on Terminator style rip-off.

For me, the movie is too long. It could’ve been tighter with better pacing. Some scenes weren’t needed. There’s a twist, but it doesn’t save the movie. The humour feels forced and doesn’t land like it did in the first M3GAN movie. That one had a simple story. This one tries to juggle too many moving parts and ends up feeling like it’s doing too much — a mashup of horror, comedy, and espionage that just doesn’t work.

Effect-wise, both AMELIA and M3GAN looked like someone in a suit. The whole vibe felt like an expensive B-movie, and after the success of the first one, I really thought it would shake that off.

Will I recommend you see this movie?

NO.