Review of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) by Andrew C — 23 Aug 2010
Now this is what I'm talkin' about! I've seen too many excellent films and I needed a shit film to tide me over.
This is a shit sequel to a shit remake of a fairly good horror film. It's about a group of military scientists working in a mine that has been effected by nuclear testing and it's full of deformed mutant people who are for some reason immensely strong and near indestructible. Needless to say the scientists are killed in graphic detail. Seven national guard trainees and their Sergent receive a help signal from a wounded scientist, and then they end up in the mine and their car gets blown up and their phones don't work and the radio get's smashed and blah, blah, blah you can work the rest out.
The first film (the remake that is) was sort of a guilty pleasure film, ya know one that you enjoy but can't bring yourself to give it a fresh rating and you can have fun by picking which character dies next. This film is not like that, this one just eats balls. At first you think it will be like that after you see the scientists get killed but after that it just becomes slow and boring.
It spends too much time trying unsuccessfully to build suspense and not enough time developing the characters, ya know so you can predict which one dies next, and not nearly enough time killing them. There are no likable, interesting or funny characters in this they are all so boring, I hated all of them and not in an "I hate him and want him to die first!" kinda way, I hated them in an "oh fuck I don't care just kill one of them already and stop trying to build suspense you suck at it!" type of way. Man some of the deaths were downright uneventful at one stage, we've been waiting for a killing for like 20 minutes and there are two characters we know will die (how do I know? One of them is black and the other is Mexican) and there are three characters we know will survive and we are waiting, waiting, waiting for these two to die (I don't care if I'm spoiling this for you) and then one of them all of a sudden bleeds to death and then a few minutes later the other accidentally blows himself up. WTF?! I waited this long just for that?
Final verdict, boring, unsuspensful even though it tries to be, unoriginal, totally ludicrous and overall shit. Not to mention badly scripted and badly acted.
On the plus side though it reminds us how great Predator is. I give this 1 star.
This review of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) was written by Andrew C on 23 Aug 2010.
The Hills Have Eyes 2 has generally received mixed reviews.
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