![]() ![]() They do not find anybody in the camp, and they receive a blurred distress signal from the hills. Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 5 / 10 Predictable Collection of ClichésĪ team of trainees of the National Guard brings supply to the New Mexico Desert for a group of soldiers and scientists that are installing a monitoring system in Sector 16. This means that the only reason to watch THE HILLS HAVE EYES 2 is to see an extended sequence of somebody beating someone else's head in with a rock. I suppose one bonus is the short running time, but even that seems padded out to the max, throwing in lots of pointless sequences and leaving genuine sub-plots unfocused and hanging (the friendly mutant, for instance – what's the deal with him? He's like that guy in THE GOONIES, but I want to find out more about him!). I mean, the guy who's got that stony skin.is he really supposed to be menacing? They also die far too easily as well. The acting's poor across the board, and the mutants are laughable rather than the fear-inducing creatures of the first film. We end up with a load of people scurrying around in some nondescript cave system, and even that's ripping off THE DESCENT. Even the victims in a nameless Friday the 13th sequel of the '80s had more characterisation than this! Remember, these are the guys we're supposed to root for. Each and every soldier is depicted as either an idiot, a bully, or a thug, and they don't seem to have more than a couple of brain cells between them. The biggest disappointment is the script, which is obviously a rush job designed to cash in on the first film's success. Sure, there are outrageous gore effects occurring frequently in the film, but when they happen to uninteresting, uninspired characters, you feel like you're playing a computer game rather than getting involved in a real movie. My biggest beef is that this film has so much wasted potential. My third exposure is the sequel to the remake, which takes the general premise and utterly wastes it on another ALIENS-inspired storyline of a squad of soldiers entering enemy territory and finding themselves getting picked off one by one by the villains. I found it dated, flawed, and a film that paled in comparison next to the remake, which is unusual. Next up I saw the Craven original and, like a lot of Craven films, it disappointed me. The first one I saw was the modern remake, which blew me away sure, it told a familiar story of humans battling mutants, but the direction was strong, the violence visceral, and the pacing remarkable. My opinion on the HILLS HAVE EYES films varies. Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 4 / 10 Sequel to the superior remake is pointlessly derivative ![]()
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