I'm definitely not the biggest Five Nights at Freddy's fan alive. I watched the first movie, didn't like it, but I could at least understand why some people enjoyed it.
With the second one? Man... I genuinely have no idea how anyone walks out of this thinking, "Yeah, that was good."
This thing is basically a fan-service piñata that someone slapped together with the energy of a dying WiFi router. Sure, the animatronics look great (honestly the only part of the production where it feels like effort was involved). Marionette in particular could've been genuinely creepy... if they didn't spend most of the movie turning her into a goofy possession gimmick with cartoon eyes and wet-noodle arms. Completely wasted potential at this point...
Yes, the movie is bigger than the first one. More robots, more locations, more noise. Great.
But it doesn't matter when the whole script collapses like a folding table at a frat party.
Now the rest... and this is where the mountain of issues starts:
The writing is awful.
Characters talk like they were written on a crumpled napkin. The plot relies entirely on braindead coincidences...
Example: A car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, in the dead of night... and suddenly a friend just happens to drive by, doesn't question anything, and gives a ride. Sure. Totally normal.
People appear out of nowhere like they mastered instant transmission, and a supposedly abandoned, forgotten-for-decades location apparently sits right next door to everyone. Nobody in this world seems to need more than 90 seconds to travel miles.
And the story: Just as bad.
The villain's motivation could have been good, but it's executed so bizarrely that you can't take it seriously. No adult on earth would react that dismissively to a kid shouting about a kidnapping. In this movie, the parents treat her like she said aliens stole her homework. It's absurd and breaks the whole setup.
Then there's the big, hyped-up Fazbear Festival. Posters everywhere, constant mentions, obvious build-up toward some big showdown...
And then it amounts to absolutely nothing. It never matters. At all.
The final battle happens in a single cramped room like they ran out of money halfway through shooting. Why even include the festival if it's not going to matter? Feels like a huge missed opportunity, maybe a budget problem, who knows.
The horror is basically just loud noises and jump-cuts with zero buildup. No tension, no atmosphere, nothing memorable. It's kiddie horror - which would be fine if the rest of the movie could carry the weight... It doesn't.
The dynamic between Mike and Vanessa is also baffling. Vanessa carries the whole movie, protects his sister, does all the heavy lifting, and Mike reacts like she personally keyed his car. Zero emotional logic.
And the biggest problem of all: This isn't a movie. It's a two-hour setup for the third one.
Nothing gets resolved.
There's no real climax.
No sense of completion.
It's like reading a book where the author ends chapter eight with "To be continued..." and just walks away.
FNaF fans will probably love this movie anyway, because it shows them the stuff they already adore from the games. And hey, that's fine, the fanservice is overflowing.
But as a standalone film? It's weak. Really weak.
It feels like a two-hour trailer for Part 3 with some cool animatronics sprinkled in.
If you're expecting an ACTUAL film with pacing, logic, or coherent writing...
Yeah, this ain't it. Not even close.
