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(1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 36% Rotten Page   1   "like the film's pair of conflicted snuff customers, you're only getting what you paid your money for."   Little White Lies   Anton Bitel B- "...an improvement over its predecessor in that Roth keeps the tone more consistent and gives us more likable heroines, but we're all still waiting for Roth to bust out a truly genre-defining film."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 3.5/5 "When it comes down to it, Hostel Part II is the near perfect sequel, a money mandated continuation that actually works as a companion piece to the original effort"   PopMatters   Bill Gibron "The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces."   Beyond Hollywood   Brian Holcomb D- "Part II is vile, but it commits an even worse sin by being so aggressively boring and hilariously one-note."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 1/5 "Sets the horror genre back a solid decade."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin C- "Similarly gory and exploitative as its torture-porn predecessor, writer/director Eli Roth's horror sequel is nothing more than a makeover of "Hostel" substituted with female characters."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 3/4 "...marks a substantial leap forward in terms of [Eli Roth's] directorial abilities."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "The kind of exploitative and sadistic pic that should appeal to the sensibilities of Al-Quaeda or Quentin Tarantino or just plain fake snuff film voyeurs."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3/4 "Whereas the first film began as a college kid's wet dream and ended as a nightmare, Hostel: Part II is cloaked in a pall of dread and darkness from frame one. Even the lighter moments in the first act seem like taunting harbingers of doom."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C- "It is little more than a retread of the previous film, which makes it lazy on top of everything else."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider D+ "Another slab of Sadism-Is-Us cinema from writer-director Eli Roth...It's check-out time for this series."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek C+ "By the end, Hostel II has devolved into sheer farce, though not before a ballsy killing sequence..."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 1.5/4 "Take away the blood and gore, however, and there's nothing left."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2.5/5 "There is just too much that is repetitive in Hostel Part II to make it worth the effort."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Compared to its predecessor, the new screenplay might well have been written by Betty Friedan."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 4/5 "It's sick. It's twisted. Some scenes made me want to throw up. But I loved it. God help me."   Film School Rejects   Kevin Carr "Inevitably lacks the element of vicious surprise that helped make Hostel a surprise hit, but it's a worthy follow-up with a couple of nifty tricks up its sleeve."   Film Journal International   Maitland McDonagh 0/4 "Hostel was garbage. Hostel: Part II is that same garbage moved over about a foot on the ground."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik .5/4 "Outrage and disgust are sure to greet its theatrical arrival, but as its guiding conviction is that horror audiences desire nothing more than predictable schlock bereft of shocks or genuine terror, the chief impression imparted is one of condescension."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Picking up where the first film ended, writer-director Roth adds two angles to his formula, but neither is enough to make this grisly film worth watching."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 2/5 "Neither as memorably creepy nor as painfully graphic as its predecessor."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves F "One may as well watch a marathon of American beheadings at the hands of Iraqi insurgents with popcorn in hand - the entertainment value is surprisingly comparable."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick 4/5 "A tight-fisted slow burn that whacks you in face with two or three really horrifying sequences."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 4/10 "Hostel, Part II is bad, but it's not the most objectionable torture porno by any conceivable yardstick."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 25) of 25 OFCS Rating: 36% Rotten Page   1