Hostel: Part II
Hostel: Part II
R | 08 June 2007 (USA)
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Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it.

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baileygiannini

Hostel (2005) was as terrible as watching paint dry. However, this sequel to the first film takes a new all time low. I wouldn't rewatch this movie even if you paid me. This is far more worse than the first film. It's practically the same movie again, this time with the opposite sex. Having women being the victims and tortured is way more disgusting and sick than watching the men in the first film go through it. If anyone has any brains at all, they will certainly want to do a petition to ban all Hostel films from the US. The one after this awful sequel is the only one that's okay. Hostel Part II features more body parts ripping to shreds and more full frontal nudity. Swearing is here in this film again and it doesn't let up. There's really not much else to say except, the acting is terrible, the special effects are way to gruesome, no imaginary creativitay was done while this movie was in the shooting process and it's just garbage all around. It's a film that I only keep around to remind me of my Grandma. Other than that, I would've thrown it away in the trash can outside of my house a long time ago. The storyline's boring as anything possible. I'd rather look up in the sky and see different shapes of clouds than watch this terrible garbage that was made to rip horror fans off once again. Awful directions and very poorly written was the script when Eli Roth wrote it. Cabin Fever was better than this. I'm waiting to see if Eli Roth can come up with something truly terrifying, not the same rehashed garbage that other filmmakers having been putting out for years on end. From me, this is a huge thumbs down.For an overall rating, I give Hostel Part II0 Stars. (Why the heck did I watch this terrible piece of garbage?)

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Paul Magne Haakonsen

It was quite nice to find that this was actually a direct continuation of the first "Hostel" movie.But then again Eli Roth veers fast from that and returns to the formula that was used in the first movie. Which actually leads me to think that this movie was essentially just a re-make of the first movie just with a female cast ensemble instead. And with other torture scenes, of course, but otherwise it was essentially the same. And that felt like a cold dead fish to the face at the hands of director Eli Roth."Hostel: Part II" is fairly entertaining and somewhat visceral if you haven't seen the first movie. And if not, then you will certainly be entertained by part II. However, if you have already seen part I, then there is not much for you to enjoy in part II. With part I already seen, then you simply just switch to autopilot and cruise through this without any stimulus.I will say that the cast in "Hostel: Part II" were certainly doing adequate jobs with their given roles and characters. And again, if you haven't seen part I, this becomes all the more enjoyable.While there certainly were some gory and gruesome torture scenes in "Hostel: Part II" then it hardly made up for what it was lacking in originality. And that ultimately lead to this being little more than a mediocre re-make of the first movie.

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Davis P

OK, I had to think long and hard about how to review this sequel. This movie gave me mixed feelings. I thought this film was just slightly better than the original. They upped the ante on the gore factor which I didn't like. There was a couple scenes in particular that I that I thought were way too graphic. The acting was actually pretty good. The main actresses did very well with their roles, I enjoyed them in this movie. The gang of crazy kids from the first Hostel are in this movie, and I didn't like them at all, they were one of the worst parts of this film. Paxton does make a brief appearance in this movie. I didn't like that his character was killed off, that kinda made me mad. I thought his character should have lived. OK, so the plot overall I thought was better executed than in the first. I thought this movie was just overall better handled that the original. I think that like I said earlier, the graphic nature of a couple scenes I just thought they took it too far. For example, the shower scene, aka the death of one character, was just too dark and way too graphic, I did not enjoy that, I don't know who could like that! I mean I had to look away, it was just too much. But I did like the other two main female characters, they were tough and could really defended themselves, and the two main male antagonists, they did pretty well with their roles, it was kinda like a oh I'm big Macho and tough, and I must make women fear me type of thing. I thought that attitude was fitting, if of course bothered me because I'm a big feminist, but it was supposed to bother me because they were evil so they did their job on that part. Overall, it was better than the first in my opinion, but I had a pretty big issue with the amount of gore. 7/10 Hostel: Part II.

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Spencer

Very entertaining. Sick and insane, it appeals to the people who can watch people scream and endure perverse torture as though they were watching the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. Like the first movie, a large portion of Hostel Part II is devoted to character development and lead-up. But, as a sequel should, it also brings some new ideas forth. The most obvious change, aside from the three main characters (victims), who are now women-- if that makes a difference--there are two other characters who take the spotlight (one in particular). These characters are the men who have paid to kill the three girls. So we see this movie from the perspectives of the victims and the culprits, which is an interesting feature. We also see some different ways people who have 'bought' a victim choose to carry out their fantasies. They really can do ANYTHING they want with their victim. Pretty nasty stuff. I was able to enjoy this more after having viewed Part I, since I was better prepared for a campier experience. I'm not particularly squeamish, and nothing in this movie really grossed me out more than my nerves anticipated it would. Not to mislead you, though: this is still a very bloody film with a twisted concept. Gorier than the original (in fact, almost all of the violent scenes in the original are shown again to catch everyone up in the intro), though perhaps a bit less serious. Not a bad experience, though it's quite a silly film. Once more, plenty of entertainment value if you're into it.

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