StreetDance 2

StreetDance 2 (2012) is a British-German dance drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini, it sends breakdancer Ash across Europe — Rome, Paris, London — on a mission to build the crew that will finally beat the Invincibles.

Falk Hentschel plays Ash, a dancer who can recruit world-class breakers but cannot crack the code of what makes them unbeatable. Then he finds Eva — Sofia Boutella, doing things with salsa that have no business going this fast. Merging Latin rhythm with street-dance aggression turns out to be both the competitive strategy and the romance. The competition scenes are slick; the love story is exactly as complicated as one expects from a dance film, which is to say: not very.

The film knows what it is. Boutella carries most of the kinetic energy, and watching her here — years before Atomic Blonde and Star Trek — is the real draw. Watch StreetDance 2 (2012) online on iFILM.