The first part met with a fairly favourable response, so the law of commercial cinema dictates that there must be more of the same, except with the action elements duly ramped up a notch. And so it is, with the introduction of systemic police corruption and even more unstoppable robotic enforcers turning the repression of the superpowered minority into an outright campaign of extermination against them.
Where this and and the part before it differ from the output of the DCEU and MCU stables, apart from the obvious budget limitations, is their depiction of the powered as vulnerable, despite their abilities, and the ultimate villain being not some god-like malevolent being but the fascist state instead. Yes, the X-Men films drew parallels between the position of mutants and gay or ethnic minorities in the face of intolerance, but then their heroes were never in any real peril since they were still virtually omnipotent. These ones certainly aren't, and so the two Code 8 films act as a Trojan horse for getting liberal ideas past the anti-political filters of superhero film buffs. Which has to be applauded.
6/10
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