The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
1h 30m | PG-13
A group of National Guard trainees on a routine mission find themselves up against cannibalistic mutants in the New Mexico desert.
Director: Martin Weisz
Studio: Fox Atomic
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Video: 720p
Cast
Michael McMillian
as Napoleon
Jessica Stroup
as Amber
Jacob Vargas
as Crank
Flex Alexander
as Sarge
Michael Bailey Smith
as Papa Hades
Lee Thompson Young
as Delmar
Reviews
Better than the other _Hills Have Eyes 2_ but not as good as the second _Hills Have Eyes_... Man, movie title marketing is confusing... My roommate loves this one a lot because she has a hard on for military horror, and while I don't love it, I'm still happy to give it a regular re-watch. _Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
Sadly, this is just a really poor rip-off of the first film, and a sloppy exploitation of it's 2006 remake. This time our nocturnal nuclear survivors manage to - quite successfully - prey on a platoon of trainee National Guard. It would appear that their finely hones military skills are no match of the their hungry opponents as they are gradually whittled down - even their own guns are turned against them as someone manages to somehow crawl out of a portable toilet! The dialogue is banal and the director Martin Weisz has managed to assemble quite possibly the least capable cast of acting talent I have seen since "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953). The photography is good; we do get up close and personal with the frequently quite brutal action, but it appears that another side effect of surviving a mushroom cloud is a seeming invincibility when shot in the head at 5 paces - which after a while becomes really quite dull to watch. Wes Craven still had a hand in this, but I'm sure even he would look at it now and wonder what was he thinking!