The Wrath of Becky (2023)
Two years after the first film ended, Becky is back, and this time she’s mad…der. She’s madder.
To recap, in the first film a group of white supremacists crossed paths with Becky, demanded she return an item, killed her guardian, tortured her dog, and chased Becky around the woods while she violently and gleefully murdered them one at a time.
In The Wrath of Becky, which picks up after a three year gap, a group of white supremacists cosses paths with Becky, demands she returns an item, kills her guardian, tortures her dog, and chases Becky around the woods while she violently and gleefully murders them one at a time.
Stop me if that sounds familiar.
The movies aren’t identical, of course. This time around, it’s a group of “Noble Men” (clearly a stand in for the Proud Boys) who get tangled up with the world’s most dangerous teenager. And this time, it’s a USB stick containing the names of every Noble Man that Becky has made off with. There are other differences too, but the devil is in the details; by and large, both of these films are about a teenage girl who pushes back when pushed too far.
Because we know who Becky is and we understand that the Noble Men are bad guys, the film doesn’t need to waste on character development and can get right to what everybody came for. The first Noble Man lured outside the home finds himself fastened to a chair with a hand grenade duct taped to his mouth and a string connecting the pin to the front door of the home, and that’s just the beginning. Unfortunately for the Noble Men, there’s a stockpile of weapons out in the barn just waiting for Becky to discover and find creative uses for.
Like the original, The Wrath of Becky is over the top; while not a cartoon, it feels more like a comic book than the real world. To squelch anyone from saying “but that wouldn’t happen in real life” on the way out of the theater, at the end of the film sixteen-year-old Becky — with the list of Noble Men — is hired by the CIA and issued a rocket launcher, so… yeah.
Both Becky and The Wrath of Becky are grindhouse revenge films from the 70s redone with HD cameras and slick CGI special effects. Grenade-exploding heads never looked so good. The plot’s about as deep as one of Becky’s hole traps, but it’s all in fun… unless you’re someone in this film other than Becky.