Similarly, these new plot devices aren’t enough to breathe much life into the concept. Rather this follow-up not only feels like more of the same, it’s also dulled the prior film’s sharpness. The entire film is far too confusing. It takes too long to discover why Perempuan is here. The enforcers of the system, known as Loyalists and guided by a blind and vicious Anointed One known as Dagin Babi (Ken Appledorn), are an equally opaque group. Apart from their desire to keep law and order, it’s unclear what their motivation is for so violently perpetuating this system. There is, of course, the religious component–messiahs, demonic figures, and allusions to varying circles of hell—but they play as broad symbols rather than incisive world-building.