Critic Reviews

Adam Green's inventively gruesome slasher is the widest unrated release in 25 years.

Hatchet II is distinguished both by a funky, frisky sense of humor, and gore of great quality and quantity.

Outrageously over-the-top gore doubtless will scare off all but the heartiest genre aficionados.

Swift and amusingly brainless, Hatchet II more than delivers on splatter expectations.

Hatchet II earns bragging rights with buckets of giddily over-the-top blood 'n' guts in sequences that are as gratuitous as they are amusingly ridiculous.

You don't go to this film for Sorkinesque repartee; you go for the world's longest chainsaw, or equal-opportunity genital mutilations, or very, very long bludgeonings. And here they are, in buckets.

It's a functional sequel, but with all that spirited slicing and dicing, the director could have at least broken a sweat.

You want gore, you get gore. Hatchet II plays less like a slasher movie than like the highlight reel from a slasher movie.

This time out, Green is not as self-aware, devoting a solid hour of his film's 90-minute running time to pre-mayhem character development so witless and dull that Hatchet II might as well be "Friday the 13th, Part 14."

Every boogeyman and slasher cliché this movie borrows was better somewhere else. Although it probably wasn't grosser.