Wrath of Becky (2023)
Look. If you hurt or take someone's dog, make sure their name isn't John Wick or Becky. Because they will fuck you up.
Becky (Lulu Wilson, who was SO good in this) is back. She has bounced around foster homes and has been in and out of the system for three years now. When not running away or hitchhiking, she is in the woods training. Running, exercising, throwing knives, and sometimes falling into her own pit traps. She is living with Elena Cahn (Denise Burse), who treats her with respect, doesn't ask her about her past, and does laugh when Becky falls into her pit traps.
While working as a waitress, Becky overhears a bunch of misogynistic incel types going on about women. Becky, who has progressively more violent fantasies, spills a hot coffee on one of them.
The trouble is they follow her home and attack her. Becky is about to fight them when she gets her dog, Diego, to attack. But one of them knocks Diego out. Elena shows up with a shotgun, but lead douchebag Anthony kills her instead. They knock out Becky and take her dog.
When Becky wakes up, Elena is dead, and Diego is gone. She buries Elena and goes hunting for the douchebags. She had heard them talking about how they were meeting up with the leader of the "Noble Men" (think Proud Boys here) and she has a name, Darryl. After a false start she finds them and overhears Darryl talking about a flash drive with all members of the Noble Men on it. They are planning to start an insurrection and kill a local Congresswoman.
She rings the bell and leaves a phone. Darryl, learning what happened, sends Anothny out to deal with her. Becky manages to subdue him and shove a grenade into his mouth. When Darryl opens the door it blows Anothny's head off. She shoots another with a crossbow and in frustration, Darryl shoots and kills one of the guys that took her dog while the other escapes.
There is some back-and-forth with Darryl and Becky exchanging quips and violence. Eventually we learn that the first Darryl she found was this Darryl's mother AND the founder of the Noble Men.
Becky manages to kill son Darryl in a series of bear traps, and Darryl mother by throwing a knife and embedding it in her brain. She is brutal.
As an epilog we see Becky in an office. Long story short she is going to be the youngest recruit of the CIA because she single-handedly brought down the largest growing domestic terrorist organization in the country.
This was a very satisfying sequel to Becky. If they do another one then might I suggest "Beck: The Search for Diego."
Lulu Wilson is great. She pulls of the sweet teen when she needs to, angry sullen teen, and bat-shit crazy blood-lust monster.
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I hadn't realized they were making a sequel to that other movie. I should watch the first one before my Paramount+ subscription expires.
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