This sequel to the surprise crowdfunded Netflix hit continues the story some time later as Connor (Robbie Amell) gets out of prison and Garrett (Stephen Amell) is now a drugs baron, trading Psyke in league with corrupt cops. An underclass of 4% of the population with superpowers, an increasingly police/surveillance state with new robotic dogs, a young girl with extra-special abilities and an older brother who falls foul of the crooked cops... this sort of action/sci-fi potboiler pretty much writes itself, as the young girl falls into the orbit of Connor and eventually Garrett as well, leading to a standard cat-and-mouse chase with the bad cops in tow. The film strives for a level of coolness that it does not reach, and it is rather slow, underpowered and surprisingly sombre. Robbie does the pained puppy-dog eyes throughout and Stephen does his diffident grouchy routine, but apart from the nicely-realised robot dogs (although hardly a new concept), the film leaves little impression.
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