Movies like Code 8 Part II

“Code 8 Part II (2024) is a Canadian-American 2020s sci-fi-thriller that stages automated policing and urban decay as structural antagonists. The central tension—an ex-con pairing with a drug lord to protect a powered teen from a corrupt cop—is rendered through state-surveillance logic and high-contrast chiaroscuro paired with propulsive action staging. The film argues that surveillance-era loyalties expose civic fragility and forces viewers to weigh complicity against survival.”