The Hills Have Eyes II
Fox Atomic | Release Date: March 23, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
8
Negative:
9
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63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The director, Martin Weisz , doesn't lean on a lot of noise and editing tricks. He can relax, since all the scares are built into the Cravens' script, which invokes both "Goonies" and last year's instant-classic, chicks-versus-cave-dwelling-vampires flick "The Descent." Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
Pretty solid gory horror. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirschling
A retro horror-comedy featuring quick deaths and cheapo-looking gore, with a few dorky laughs and gross-outs but not so many scares. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Though written by Wes Craven and his son, Jonathan Craven, this is pretty standard stuff: A lot of creeping through dark tunnels with just enough characterization to help you keep track of who's still alive, but not enough gore to really satisfy fans of Aja's bloodbath. Read full review
50
VarietyJohn Anderson
The politics of "Hills 2" won't enlist any new converts to the horror ranks, but existing fans will be drawn to the combination of visceral tension, violent payoff and the patented Craven gift for innovative gore. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
It's not fun to watch. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJim Ridley
For anyone other than hardcore gore-hounds, this flipbook of deliberately invoked global-unrest horrors, from friendly-fire killings to rape as a breeding weapon, is effectively mean and unrelenting--and pretty far from fun. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The film is brazenly indebted to old cowboys-and-Indians movies and to James Cameron’s "Aliens." Gleefully sensationalistic and paced like an adults-only shoot-'em-up video game, it's ultimately less interested in subversion and subtext than in making viewers squirm, shriek and throw up into their popcorn bags. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
The Hills Have Eyes 2 proves that even grisly, gory violence can be awfully boring. Read full review
38
PremiereGlenn Kenny
As a fan of the genre, and someone who genuinely loves such recent horror efforts as "The Descent" and "The Host," I respectfully suggest that the atmosphere for horror movies might be better if moviemakers stopped making ones like this. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle Smith
The mutants are brain-damaged; the filmmakers don't have that excuse to justify this movie, which is the kind of thing the sergeant would call "a stunning display of individual and group stupidity." Read full review
38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jason Anderson
A perfunctory gore fest and quite possibly the year's worst date movie. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
You'd like to think such bankruptcy of imagination means we've seen the last of these subterranean creeps. But you know they'll be back soon to collect their royalties from the gore hounds who apparently don't care how dull or warmed over the accompanying package. Read full review
25
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
After this disgrace, it's time to shut the hills' eyes for good. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
On the whole, this is an awfully long slog through very arid terrain, in which generic soldiers track, fight and try to escape from generic villains (you'd be surprised at how uninteresting mutant flesh-eaters can be). I can't speak for the hills, but I spent most of the movie just trying to keep my eyes open. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Assembles the most motley group of incompetents this side of a "Police Academy" movie, yet somehow misses the laughs. But humorlessness is probably the least of the film's problems, lagging behind amateur-night performances from the no-name cast, a homogenous visual palette (and from a music-video director, no less!), and lots of pointless sadism. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
As witless and simpleminded as the irradiated humanoids that serve as the franchise’s bad guys. Read full review
10
Film ThreatFelix Vasquez, Jr.
This horror fanatic doesn't have room for Craven in his genre anymore. Collect your cash and call it a day already, Wes. Read full review
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