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Hostel: Part II
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46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 21
  3. Negative: 8 out of 21
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  1. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    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. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    75
    While the sequel isn't as unrelentingly gory as the original, there are still rivers of blood.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    An authentic real-world creep show -- better, if anything, than its predecessor.
  4. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    75
    It's also, in its sick, sick way, a real crowd-pleaser.
  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Michael Rechtshaffen
    70
    Roth has managed the rare feat of actually improving on the original.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    70
    In this twist-filled sequel, the real shocker is just how smart and satisfying such degradation can be. There's no question "Part II" outgrosses the original "Hostel" in the blood-and-guts department.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    63
    Given its premise, it's hard for any Hostel sequel to be little more than a rehash.
  8. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jason Anderson
    63
    May not be your idea of a fun European vacation, but Roth's trip offers horror fans more than the usual sick kicks.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    60
    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.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Hartlaub
    50
    Basically torture porn.
  11. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Lisa Rose
    50
    A decent second chapter in the tourist horror saga.
  12. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Zach Haddad
    40
    Eli Roth has potential, I just think he should leave Slovakia alone and focus on bigger and better things.
  13. Empire
    Reviewed by: Simon Crook
    40
    Roth's slick shock-'em-up sequel is a dispiritingly traditional splat of gristly Grand Guignol. It's tooled up to outrage, but ultimately numbs rather than grips.
  14. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    A suspenseless rehash.
  15. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    38
    The problem with Hostel Part II is the same flaw that afflicted Hostel: no tension.
  16. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nathan Lee
    30
    Eli Roth punks capitalism all the way to the bank with cheap tricks and bankrupt imagination.
  17. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Laura Kern
    30
    Mr. Roth, part of a new breed of horror directors affectionately labeled the "Splat Pack," is regarded by some as a savior of the genre, though it could be argued that he is more effectively a saboteur. He might have mastered the cheap sadism-as-entertainment gross-out, but he has yet to produce a single genuine, old-fashioned fright.
  18. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Scott Bowles
    25
    The filmmakers behind the "Saw" franchise must love to see a movie like Hostel: Part II. Compared to this Eli Roth fetish video, the "Saw" films are Oscar bait.
  19. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    25
    The moviemaking is driven only by contempt; he (Roth) wants to nauseate us into submission.
  20. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Aaron Hillis
    25
    Fails in what amounts to its only distinct purpose: to smugly push the envelope of depravity farther than anyone else.
  21. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    0
    You live in a free country, you put up with crud like Hostel Part II. It truly is crud, though.
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5.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 75 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 35
  3. Negative: 15 out of 35
  1. JoseRochaPT
    2
    As I always do, I saw this sequel (two) after the first film to follow the story without me forget any detail. I conclude that indeed Hostel is a failure in terms of history, after the failure of the first in the explanations he hoped that in the second were given some explanations about how things work / happen. But however and much to the dismay of all who saw the first explanations were not given any more. At the end of the two there is only a supposed sequel to a third movie, which leaves us waiting for more, but unfortunately I know in advance that there won't be a third movie, which makes both Hostel and Hostel 2 a big flop film.… Full Review »
  2. BryanC.
    0
    So bad, I can't even bothered wasting my time to slag this movie off. Metacrtic really needs to introduce minus scoring to accommodate nonsense like this.… Full Review »
  3. 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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