"At the very least, it's the most Ralph Fiennes turn possible, and not in the sense that he's doing a ton of capital- A acting, though at one point - spoilers, and there are going to be a lot of them in this piece - he does a pyrotechnic-enhanced dance number to Iron Maiden while passing himself off as the Devil himself."
"Fiennes's is not just a great performance but a load-bearing one. Alex Garland, who wrote both installments of the sequel franchise, has always led with ideas over characters, and The Bone Temple, while a much better movie than 28 Years Later, has to lug around some big ones about nihilism that threaten to make it an exercise in high-minded torture"
Ralph Fiennes delivers a performance that blends his sinister ease, capacity for sentimentality, and a readiness to get bizarre. He embodies Dr. Ian Kelson, a GP turned installation artist who constructs a monument to human mortality from human bones and functions as a memento mori. The sequel is set in a near future where the British Isles remain quarantined after a second Rage Virus outbreak, leaving Kelson among the few who remember pre-collapse values. The performance supports the film's heavy thematic ambitions, balancing Alex Garland's idea-driven approach and preventing the movie from descending into mere high-minded torture.
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