Force of Nature: The Dry 2 (2024)Movies

Force of Nature: The Dry 2 **1/2

As was true in 2020’s The Dry—writer/director Robert Connolly’s previous adaptation of a Jane Harper novel about Australian federal agent Aaron Falk (Eric Bana)—the structure of this follow-up assumes we’re far more invested in the backstory of our protagonist than in everything going on around him. It deals with the aftermath of a corporate wilderness retreat gone wrong, as a woman named Alice (Anna Torv) goes missing—just as she was about to turn over evidence as an informant for Falk against her shady financial-services employer (Richard Roxburgh)…