Review: Occupation: Rainfall, written and directed by Luke Sparke
Historically, when a sequel to a film was greenlit, you could rest assured this was because the first film made a tidy profit for its investors. With the advent of streaming services like Netflix, this is no longer necessarily the case. And Occupation: Rainfall shows us this.
Occupation (2018) made barely anything at the box office or through international sales, and yet became a surprise hit on Netflix in the US. Writer-director Luke Sparke was able to leverage this success to fund this sequel.
Although it has a much bigger budget, Occupation: Rainfall is marginally worse than its predecessor.
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