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Mixed or average reviews- based on 88 Ratings

  • Starring: Bijou Phillips, Heather Matarazzo, Lauren German
  • Summary: Three young Americans studying abroad in Rome set off for a weekend trip when they run into a beautiful model from their art class. Also on her way to an exotic destination, the gorgeous European invites the coeds to come along. Will the girls find the oasis they are looking for? Or are they poised to become victims for hire, pawns in the fantasies of the sick and privileged from around the world who secretly travel here to savor more grisly pursuits? (Lionsgate) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Negative: 8 out of 21
  1. 78
    Director Roth has accomplished the near impossible with Hostel: Part II: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to a film already considered something of a classic by genre aficionados, one that supersedes its predecessor's sadistic entertainment quotient by orders of magnitude while also upstaging its own outrageous gore effects with a script that's smart, vicious, and occasionally, gleefully subversive.
  2. While the sequel isn't as unrelentingly gory as the original, there are still rivers of blood.
  3. Hostel II is far too shrewd and savagely witty to be caught engaging in higher seriousness. Roth could probably go even further with this particular franchise if he wanted to. Yet somehow, I think he's meant for grander, subtler and more intricate distractions than this.
  4. 38
    A suspenseless rehash.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 41
  2. Negative: 15 out of 41
  1. More like 'Hostel: Part BRILLIANT'. I love all of Eli Roth's films and this was no exception. Two thumbs up. The script was as sharp as the knives featured in the film's notorious knife cutting scene (the scene where the people get cut with the knives). I laughed and cried and screamed because it was also scary as well as funny and sad. And Who can forget the scene with the bit where they rent out a room in the titular hostel. When I remember this scene I still get shivers, I was like, 'Don't rent that room in that hostel!' but then they rent the room in the hostel and its like, 'here we go again!' I regard Hostel 2 as Roth's best (controversial) but then again, I regard all his films as the best (gotcha!). A must see.

    p.s F*ck trees.
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  2. RussellI.
    8
    I thought it was pretty great and am mystified by the negative reviews (how on earth are the Saw films better in any single way!!!) Definitely not as gory or as relentless as the first, which I found refreshing. It has a well crafted script that takes a more objective look at the "elite hunting" club. I feel like many people made their minds up before watching and/or have some weird hate towards Eli Roth. It's probably not my favorite of his films, but it's probably his best written script and possibly his best directed. Expand
  3. DB.
    7
    I don't know, I just found it rather entertaining. I think people need to take the same sort of tongue-in-cheek attitude of Grindhouse to kind of get what Roth is doing. I think it was helped by the fact that I caught it on cable for 4 dollars, rather than paying 10 dollars and making a night out of it. Either way, I liked it. Expand
  4. P.A.V.T
    3
    Its story is almost irrelevant, its caracters are empty and repelling and its attempt to live up to the original is an utter failure

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