While never genuinely challenging or surprising, BFME2 does deal its blows with feeling. As the game of the film it has considerable inherited potential to work with, and while it might only have waded through the shallow edge of the genepool in its first iteration, it is now completely submerged - and growing stronger like an orc gestating in verdant sludge. This latest real-time enactment of the Middle Earth conflict is a healthy improvement on its predecessor.
