Best F(r)iends: Volume Two - Film (R)eview
Best F(r)iends: Volume Two is directed by Justin MacGregor, and stars Tommy Wiseau, Greg Sestero, Kristen Stephenson Pino, and Rick Edwards.
Plot
As Jon (Greg Sestero) makes a run for it, he finds himself on a desert expedition, where wild characters and dark foibles intersect. As his misadventure teaches him about friendship and loyalty, Harvey (Tommy Wiseau) surfaces a surprise or two.
Review
I'm not sure where to start here. I had fun watching this movie, but I don't think it's as good as the first one.
It feels like a very different movie than Best F(r)iends: Volume One did, it's about Jon and his girlfriend Traci (Kristen Stephenson Pino) going to her "uncle's" house (Rick Edwards) to try to get a safe that Harvey had in an ATM machine open.
Now there were some things I liked about Best F(r)iends: Volume 2, and there were some things that didn't make sense.
There's a scene where they try to tie Harvey into the unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, and this is never brought up again. Ok?
Also, near the end, they reveal that Traci and her uncle really aren't uncle and niece and then they try to kill Jon. It's a twist I wasn't expecting and definitely was surprised by, but it didn't really make sense. But then Rick dies after chasing Jon in the desert after being shot by Harvey.
Also, when Rick takes Jon out to the desert, he goes on a big whole monologue instead of just shooting him, giving Harvey time to shoot at Rick and then a gunfight ensues. Then a chase happens, then Rick has Jon cornered, and then Harvey kills him.
There's one scene where Jon, Traci, and Rick have some guy over to try to open the safe, but he turns on them and a Hispanic guy from the locksmith place comes over, and drags Traci into the laundry room, but he dies after being shot, and then the locksmith comes into the room and he gets shot too.
In between scenes at Rick's ranch, there's scenes of Jon handcuffed to something while Harvey wears either a death mask or a knight's helmet and he's talking to Jon.
The reason they're at Rick's ranch is because Jon got the wrong keys to the safe from Harvey at the cliff, so whey went back to get them, only to get pulled over in the middle of the night by a cop who tells Traci that her license plate tag was nine months expired, so he tells them to go to a bed and breakfast for the night. When they get there, Traci calls Rick who picks them up and tries to get it open the next morning to no avail.
In the movie they show that Jon is curious about this Malmo guy that Harvey was involved with in the first movie, and at the end it turns out that is a real estate company run by Paul Scheer's character in the first movie and they give Jon a house to live in. After Jon moves into his new house, the Hispanic guy, having survived the gunshot, rides on his motorcycle to Jon's house, looks at the camera, and then credits roll.
Also, since I just mentioned the credits and I can't think of anywhere to put this, in the credits, the line producer is credited as Mark Damon. Greg Sestero was a line producer on The Room and his character Mark was named after Matt Damon, who Tommy Wiseau heard as Mark.
Also, there's a music video directed by Tommy Wiseau, Scary Love by The Neighborhood, which played before the movie, but the people at my theater messed up and made the audio out of sync. Thankfully the video is on YouTube so I just watched it when I got home.
Let's talk about the characters now. Tommy wasn't in the movie as much as I thought he would be. He's mostly sitting in a chair talking to a handcuffed Jon while wearing either a death mask or a knight helmet, but he shows up at the ranch, (thinks he) kills the Hispanic guy, kills the locksmith, and later kills Rick, returns back to the ranch with Jon, and then takes Jon back home, leaving Traci screaming at Jon to come back. I think Tommy was my favorite part of the movie.
Greg Sestero was good as Jon, but I can't think of much else to say.
Kristen Stephenson Pino and Rick Edwards are ok as Traci and her "uncle" Rick. I pretty much talked about them already.
I liked seeing Paul Scheer in both this and the first one, as he was in The Disaster Artist.
Overall, Best F(r)iends: Volume Two is enjoyable but there are some parts that just don't make sense.
Best F(r)iends: Volume Two gets a 7/10.
My next review will probably be in a little over a week from today because on the 14th I will be reviewing The Incredibles in hype for Incredibles 2. It's been around 14 years too late.
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