The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
Average Rating: 3.2/10
Reviews Counted: 66
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 59
The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a completely unoriginal sequel offers plenty of gore and clichés, but few scares.
Average Rating: 3.4/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 16
The Hills Have Eyes 2 is a completely unoriginal sequel offers plenty of gore and clichés, but few scares.
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A naïve group of National Guard trainees embark on a routine training mission in the New Mexico desert, only to find themselves face to face with a murderous band of cannibalistic mutants in prolific music video director Martin Weisz's sequel to the successful 2006 remake. An isolated desert research camp has been mysteriously abandoned, and now it's up to an elite unit of soldiers to uncover the truth about the scientists who vanished without a trace. Their attention soon diverted by a distress
Mar 23, 2007 Wide
Jul 17, 2007
$20.8M
Fox Atomic
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (65) | DVD (21)
In case you miss what's happening, one soldier wails, 'Oh, man, we're gettin' picked off one by one, here.'
Top CriticWritten, disappointingly, by Wes Craven and his son Jonathan, this limp sequel to last year's remake of Wes' 1977 original feels like the work of a guy who's spent a few too many days lost in the desert.
One man-versus-mutant dust-up ends with a sledgehammer to the groin. Enough said.
It's no better or worse than most films of its genre.
A secret comedy lurks within this decidedly shoddy piece of corporate horror.
Weisz' first feature was 'Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story', a banal study of a real-life cannibal killer. Like this sorry sequel, it amounted to far less than the sum of its body parts.
The only thing the lowly Hills 2 has going for it is the grossness, ferocity, and superhuman strength of the rampaging mutants. I mean, these guys put the ugh in ugly; they make the original's Michael Berryman look like a hunk.
...could have been more than a pale shadow of the original if the filmmakers had taken their time...
A shift underground is the one big new idea in the script which, a couple of neat reverses aside, is functional at best.
The Hills Have Eyes 2 offers another round of dull, gory fright scenes that neither push the horror envelope nor exhibit any noticeable ingenuity.
Gory sequel pits mutants against the military.
There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end.
It sucks balls.
...dull and interminable...
Well, no, they don't. If they did and if they could see, they would have read the script, passed on it, and we all would have been better for it.
A half-dozen impossibly good-looking, totally interchangeable National Guard recruits find themselves pitted against an angry army of impossibly ugly, totally interchangeable murderous mutants.
(The Hills Have Eyes) is a movie that wears its disdain for the viewer on every amateurish frame.
This is a nicely-appointed DVD release, with enough extras to almost fool you into thinking the movie is more than it is.
Better made than most low budget and derivative movies of its genre, but it just doesn't have enough to stand out as anything more than an improvement upon those dregs.
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- Delmar: The rope didn't break.
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- Delmar: It was cut.
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It's simply impossible to dive in and watch The Hills Have Eyes 2 without knowing exactly what it is that your getting yourself into. I watched it wanting nothing more than a good, solid, dumb, stylish, well-crafted exploitation bloodbath. Plus i'm a huge fan of Wes Craven, and the idea he was writing the sequel to the remake as opposed to sitting on the sidelines and producing made me think that this was going to be even better than I first anticipated. The fact of the matter is, it's not very good. A year before this was released Alexandre Aja's 2006 remake at first impact devided critics and audiences, however I personally had a differing opinion, I found it to be atmospheric and captured the landscapes in the same way Craven's original did, but brought quicker pacing to the table and an exceeding amount of barf-disgusting gore that before the series had lacked. I for one have no problems with cash cow sequels that are terribly unoriginal, as long as they are either equally as good as their predecessors or better. But this remake sequel is predictably dissapointing, the fact it lacks the visual style of the remake, the atmospherics of the original, and also it's character profoundness, pretty much leaves you with nothing other than over the top gore. This isn't Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, or even the original in which Craven took the directing chair, it's just proof of the depressingly low standard that horror movies have tragically succumb to in recent years. It's not terrible by quite some distance, it works hard to make sure that the deaths are as gory, bloody and revolting as inhumanly possible, but the problem is, it isn't scary, and I never winced once.