a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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.

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

One of the best terror filled movies of all time!!!!

Yes, I hate lazy horror remakes as much as the next fan of the genre. However, when it came to the ('original') remake of the Hills Have Eyes, I was actually pretty impressed. I guess I wasn't the only one as it seems to have spawned a sequel… which I also watched.I guess you could compare part 2 to 'Aliens' and part 1 to 'Alien.' Of course the major difference was that BOTH 'Alien' films were awesome whereas here, just adding soldiers and guns doesn't automatically make it better. The first film showed us what happened to a family when their camper van broke down in the middle of a desert and ended up at odds with the psychotic locals. Now, some time later in the same desert, a team of young – and not that particularly experienced – soldiers are on a training exercise. Guess what happens to them?! So our young recruits start getting attacked and picked off one by one in classic slasher style. You may think the fact that they're armed with guns and the locals have melee weapons gives them an advantage. It doesn't. Like I say they're VERY inexperienced, almost to the point of it being a little unrealistic how quickly they go down. However, part of the story is that they're not that good at what they do, so I guess I can let that one slide. Unfortunately, part of the problem with having all the characters dressed the same in their army gear makes them very difficult to tell who's who – especially when one dies and then you realise it was a different soldier. Not only this, they're all rather forgettable and you can hazard a guess which handful will make it all the way to the final reel as they're the only ones with vaguely identifiable character traits.Sadly, it's not just the people we're supposed to root for who have problems (dare I call them 'heroes?'). The mutated rednecks are just as bland. They're not that scary and the make-up and gore isn't up to the standards it would need to be to really stand out. There's a bit of gore and some nastiness here and there, but – again – nothing that you haven't seen before (and better!) if you've seen much of the horror genre.I may sound like I hated it, but I didn't. The problem is that it's just the very definition of 'average.' It's not bad, just completely forgettable. There are too many horror clichés in here to really make it work well and it's not a patch on either of the originals. Plus, if I have to hear someone say either 'We're going to get through this' (or a variation thereof) I may just hurl the remote at the TV screen.

A group of inept National Guard soldiers (soldiers, used loosely), made up of kids almost right out of high school, are commissioned to a New Mexico desert after their commander in charge informs them of a deliverance of supplies to a scientific outpost. This desert just so happens to be where atomic testing was done, and there are still mutant inbred cannibal killers in them there hills. The film (a sequel and basic follow up to Alexander Aja's remake to Wes Craven's film from '77) is essentially soldiers (..snicker, snicker…) versus those grotesque atomic anomalies that wield weapons made from the environment. Sometimes the soldiers are dangerous to each other inadvertently (their commanding officer is shot during gunfire aimed at the mutants), but their inexperience (we see a training exercise exploit their fundamental inefficiencies in combat) doesn't help them, either. The mutants, with their cavernous hideouts and hideaways, are only a detriment to themselves, as well, often succumbing to their brute violent whims in trying to attack the soldiers who have guns at their disposal. Too much time is spent inside the hills, where it can be quite dark and cramped. Good practical effects and gore helps, I guess, but the film isn't as shocking as Aja's prior film or as much a gut punch in terms of those killed this go-around (a family unit is obliterated while the sequel offers a rag-tag bunch of kids not yet ready for the combat they are faced against). The bit with the victim found in a latrine is certainly not expected, though. A rape does exist against one of the tougher female soldiers (her development is that she looks often at a recording on her phone of her boy), which might be difficult to watch. Jessica Stroup looks out of place as the other female soldier among the group, while Lee Thompson Young (the young man who committed suicide while on the show Rizzoli & Isles) is the unfortunate token African-American of the cast who, despite her integrity and leadership skills, doesn't fare well. Michael McMillian has this inexplicable part as someone you wouldn't expect to see in the army…debates with his commanding officer and seemingly not fit to carry a gun (and generally annoying everyone) doesn't help his cause. Jacob Vargas is the hothead ready to shoot first and ask questions later. Amazingly, I expected more to die but the film offers the proposition that at least three survived (and not the candidates among the soldiers that seemed battle ready, perhaps a reason of irony). Surprisingly, Wes and his son put together the story for this rather average and forgettable horror show, which seems fit to be Wrong Turn 14. Morocco has never looked quite so intimidating, though.I think there's a sense that the Cravens were using the mutants to symbolize the unpredictable nature of battle in a place that very well might resemble Afghanistan or Iraq.

After watching the hills have eyes remake I never expected anything spectacular, however this is probably one of the worst films I have ever seen.It's the typical rather than stick together and run away let's all do our own thing in dark tunnels with no backup plan. It truly is utter crap, even the creepies are sub standard. It's almost like a horror goonies, but not funny or good. The acting is so bad it's not even ironic, wes craven just seems happy to put his name to anything in the horror genre. Seriously pick another film any things got to be better than this dribble.