Nice effects though.

Good start, but then it gets ruined

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It's throw back to old school slasher movies with cool cameos, hilarious comedy, danielle harris, and kane hodder as victor crowley, in a sequel that is arguably the best entry in the entire hatchet series, this movies starts off seconds after the first the movie giving more answers on victor crowleys back story and the lore on the other characters in the movie as well

After escaping from the rampage the night before, the lone survivor of a serial killer's rampage finds herself involved in a rescue effort suffering from the same fate in the swamps.This wasn't nearly as impressive as the first one but this is still a hugely entertaining and enjoyable slasher. Again, the best feature here is the ultra-high amount of gore on display throughout the film as the kills are just over-the-top, brutal and just plain blood-soaked goodness which is really dripping with the red stuff and just a blast. There's a much wider array of tools and weapons to be utilized here and a much bigger body count to dispose of, which allows for the film to get really crazy with the outlandish kills and gruesome bloodshed featuring more limbs being snapped off, heads pulled clean off their bodies, a chainsaw slicing through two victims at once and another hacked in half and then defleshed which is an amazing visual gag here. Coming along nicely with that is the continuation of the film's usage of the old-school feel from the first one to so much of what occurs here. Not only is this one so concerned with that feel in the kills and make-up but also in the expanded role of the back-story here by giving a greater degree of details for what happened and really furthering the story nicely. There's still a creepy swamp to use as the main location and with the rather frenetic last-half filled with carnage as this one gets some frantic action scenes filled with great brawls and stalking in the swamps to really make for a fun time, though there's some problems here. This mainly comes in the fact that the beginning is wasted with far too lengthy a back-story for the killer which really puts the slaughter a bit too late into the film. Despite the film's incredibly well-done feel for making this fleshed out and more detailed for the killer's history, that ends up taking a larger portion of the film than it really should, leaving it's good stuff all at the end before it gets fun. Also, the film seems purposefully set-up on too many occasions to deliver the gore, never once appearing natural or logical in either execution or practicality and thus really stand-out for the wrong reasons. Otherwise, this one was a lot of fun with plenty of solid points to really overcome those flaws.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

Hatchet II finds itself starting literally where the previous one left off. However, very noticeable changes are all too apparent in nearly every aspect of the movie, besides the outrageous gore. Marybeth has been recast and while I like Danielle Harris, I have to agree with others on saying it took basically the whole movie to figure out the character. When a character get's recast, the actor is likely not going to play them the same way and Harris' performance was different than Feldman's. Marybeth also seemed different from the previous movie since she was a strong female character, but is now more of a crybaby who needs men to save her. The change in Crowley's makeup is also clearly different and it was not as good. Now before you go all crazy and get upset at me, take a look at my Hatchet review, I enjoyed that movie a great deal. The first movie was humorous, did not take itself too serious and had characters that while stereotypical for a horror movie, you cared about most of them. Unfortunately, this sequel does not hold up to the original and it's a real shame considering I wanted to like this one just as much. Now, I don't hate it at all, but I just don't feel that it was a good movie, let alone a sequel. I am disappointed with Adam Green because he did such a good job with Hatchet and Frozen, yet this movie feels rushed and cheaply done. There is not as much humor in this one, unless you want to count the gore that is pretty ridiculous. I think where the first movie was something made just for the people who love those corny 80's slashers; this sequel is more for people who enjoy non-stop vicious gore. Don't get me wrong, it's not all the gore that makes this movie a bad second installment. It's the fact that they seemed to think up a dozen disgusting murders and build a movie around it. You pretty much hate or don't know most of the characters in this movie, so when their time comes, it doesn't matter. There is even a montage of flashbacks that shows several other people who were victims of Victor Crowley and they all suffer grotesque deaths.The whole set up of the sequel is also a bit far-fetched. Marybeth's entire world has just been flipped upside down and she was nearly ripped to pieces by a deranged ghost-creature, yet she is willing to risk her life to go back to find him. I also find it strange that so many locals who know about the cursed swamps would actually go there all in the hopes that a well-known con-artist will pay them each $5,000. Green should have just kept Marybeth in the swamp and had a group of campers or tourists stumble onto her. I'm on the fence with the fact that they added an origin story to Victor Crowley and gave a reason for why Marybeth is connected to him. Most horror movies that try to go back and give an origin story for the villain usually end up being pretty bad, just look at Halloween 6. I wouldn't say it was a total fail because it was slightly interesting and for some reason it reminded me a little of Pumpkinhead. Some cameos you will undoubtedly notice are Mercedes McNab, Joleigh Fioravanti and Joel Murray (though it's only his voice). For anyone who saw Adam Green's other movie, Frozen, you might notice an Easter egg involving Emma Bell. If you haven't seen Frozen yet then I suggest you do that, great thriller. Shawn Ashmore and Joe Lynch also have some small cameos, so keep an eye out or you might miss them.I guess Hatchet II could have been worse, though it's definitely not memorable like original. Some of the murders definitely stand out, but it's not an amazing sequel like many people are saying. I consider myself a big horror fan and it was only okay for me, but that is my opinion and others will have their own as well.

Hatchet is one of my favorite movies and I absolutely loved the second one just as much as the first. This movie starts off exactly where the first one ended and they put it together perfectly. Tamara Feldman has been replaced with the amazing and beautiful Danielle Harris! She is such a great horror actress and although she wasn't in the first Hatchet she still plays the part excellently. Hatchet 2 has almost triple the kills and over 130 gallons of stage blood to make this one extra juicy! This movie shows the life before and after Victor Crowley was born and you find out a lot about him that you didn't know before which is a great thing in my honest opinion. The kill scenes are still creative and fun to watch over and over. I absolutely love Adam Greene for making Hatchet and I cannot wait to see how Hatchet 3 turns out and fits into the story. I give Hatchet 2 a 9 out of 10.~Joe