Samara Weaving’s 108-Minute Eat-the-Rich Action-Thriller Is Finally Streaming on Hulu

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Back in 2009, TV producer and writer John Rogers coined the term “competence porn” to describe the oddly addictive genre of stories where characters are simply exceptionally good at their jobs. While his own series, Leverage, stands as the gold standard, the term has since been applied to everything from Star Trek: The Next Generation and high-stakes heist films to the gritty procedural brilliance of Fargo. There is a distinct, almost soothing satisfaction in watching total proficiency in action—perhaps a reflection of our chaotic times.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, currently streaming on Hulu, is the direct antithesis of this concept.

This film follows a squad of characters forced to operate well outside their “competencies”—largely because they possess none to begin with. While they remain lethal, the destruction they cause is rarely the precise, calculated kind they intend. In an era dominated by the “Business Idiot” archetype, there is a dark, cathartic glee in watching the pampered elite stumble into their own destruction, and that chaotic energy is precisely what drives this sequel.

Warning: Because this is a direct continuation, spoilers for the 2019 original Ready or Not are inevitable below.

In the original film, Grace (Samara Weaving) discovers her wedding night is actually a fight for survival, as her new in-laws are bound by a grisly demonic pact to hunt her down as a human sacrifice. Grace turns the tables, leaving her in-laws to face a fiery demise.

The sequel picks up with Grace recovering in a hospital, now a person of interest in multiple homicides. Matters worsen when her estranged sister, Faith (Kathryn Newton)—someone Grace had long ago scrubbed from her life—reappears, only to exacerbate the brewing disaster. It turns out the Le Domas family was just one node in a vast, global network of power-hungry, Satan-worshipping elites. Now, Grace and Faith have been snatched to serve as the prey in a high-stakes, international version of the “game,” hunted by a new set of families—including a particularly menacing, icy performance from Sarah Michelle Gellar.

There is a distinct “John Wick-ian” sense of world-building at play here. What was once a localized, dark family secret has evolved into a global conspiracy of occult-obsessed shadow rulers. It sounds absurd on paper, but Ready or Not 2 wisely refuses to pause for exposition.

Instead, it leans into the franchise’s strongest satirical punchline: that the ultra-wealthy have every resource imaginable, yet remain profoundly inept at the basic task of murder. It is a splatter-filled comedy of errors defined by gruesome kills, fountainous gore, and some of the most hilariously uncoordinated fight scenes in recent memory.

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Some critics have dismissed this installment as “more of the same,” but that assessment misses the point. While the first film was a focused, claustrophobic satire about a bride navigating toxic in-laws, this sequel pivots toward a larger-scale class struggle. It pits two scrappy outsiders against a global hierarchy of the privileged, forced by their own dark pact to get their hands dirty.

The end result feels like a high-budget grindhouse flick—bloody, unhinged, and gleefully aware of its own absurdity. It’s a riotous ride for anyone eager to watch the world’s elite get their comeuppance in the most cinematic way possible.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is currently available to stream on Hulu.

Source: Polygon