The Rizen: Possession

How best to describe this film? How about confusing? Although most of it consists of two distinct groups of people walking around in the dark getting picked off by zombie-like creatures, there have been similar films that score well, but this one fails at every level. Is it science fiction or occult? A bit of both, apparently, and with more background it might have warranted damning with faint praise. Sadly, there is more background. Although it isn't entirely clear from the dialogue, this is actually a sequel. The first film is even worse.

I STILL have NO idea what I just watched! I mean it had some frightening moments, but for the most part didn't make much sense to me. Seems to be 2 points of view, 1 from the Military Squad, and the other from the kid explorers, and neither make much sense!

Technically the movie is good. Meaning the acting, effects, sound, etc. The story on the other hand is just an incoherent confusing mess. They tried to do too much with too little time. I got the gist of the overall story and what the event was but the stuff in between was ?????

I can't lie I watched this for the British cop guy and it felt like he was on for 2 seconds other than that is was just really bad and felt like it was written by year 9 media studies students. The plot was all over the place and felt rushed and the acting was just abysmal and I would rather watch paint dry than this boring codswallop again. There were about 2 scenes where I was sort of invested but I lost interest after 3 seconds. I had not even heard of any of the actors here before watching and i'm glad for that and wish to never see them again after that godawful eyesore. When the dreadful film finally ended I was in tears. Not because the movie was good, because i realised i had spent my precious time wasted on this crap. I would rate it zero but that isn't possible. AVOID THIS FILM!!!

This movie is listed on Tubi TV as The Facility rather than as The Rizen: Possession. There's no indication that it is a sequel or related to any other movie. I don't know why they listed it like this especially since they also have the first movie. Whatever the reason, it doesn't do this movie any favors. Without the previous movie for context, a lot of what happens in this one just becomes incoherent nonsense. For examples, there are a lot of flashbacks. In some of them you see the actors in different costumes. In some you see somewhat similar looking but clearly different actors. These are the actors from the first movie but it just makes no sense if you haven't seen that. There are a lot of things like that in this movie.

This is a decent sci-fi horror movie but make sure you watch The Rizen first. Otherwise, a lot of this movie won't make a bit of sense.