Very disappointing...

The acting in this movie is really good.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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.

Lame follow up features several lengthy flashback sequences to pad out the film's run time to barely 90 minutes ( 85 minutes, without the opening narrative, and closing credits ) A group of dirt-bike racing morons (using some type of experimental gasoline created by survivor of the first film, for his obligatory cameo) take a shortcut through the desert, on their way to a motor-cross competition in the desert. When their bus breaks down, they end up in the same area where the first film took place, and are set upon by two survivors of the cannibal family from the earlier film. I do not believe this ever had any type of proper film score written and recorded for it. It genuinely sounds like they just simply bought the soundtrack albums to the first few Friday the 13th films, and dubbed that in. I don't mean that it sounds similar, or it sounds like someone re- recorded the score. No, I mean that it sounds identical, like we're watching this movie while the Friday the 13th soundtrack album is playing in the background. I don't have the same hatred for this film that a lot of fans of the original have. It isn't as great as the original, but it's also not quite as bad as some reviewers have said. It's just completely mediocre. The neolithic looking desert is still creepy as hell, a foot chase through the rocky cliffs between a couple of the bikers and Pluto is good also, and a couple of other good scenes are scattered throughout, but that can't hide the fact that, for all its explosions and chases, there's really just not a lot going on here, and there is surprisingly little tension or bloodshed. This film's naming The Reaper as the mutants' father contradicts the first film entirety, ( Papa Jupiter was their father in the original )

Years after the massacre of the Carter family by the cannibals in the Air Force gunnery range, Bobby Carter has now married Ruby, the cannibal girl who saved him. She now calls herself Rachel & together the couple run a Yamaha dirt bike dealership. Rachel decides to go along with a team of professional dirt bike riders to a competition, which takes them deep into the territory where Rachel's family used to roam. But what she doesn't know is that one of her brothers, Pluto, has survived & together with an uncle named Reaper are still active in the area. When their bus breaks down in the desert area, the team are picked off one by one by the cannibals. The Hills Have Eyes was Wes Craven's second film & his first real classic – a brutal survivalist tale where two families took on each other for survival in a brutal battle. In the same year as his greatest work, the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, Craven decided to mount a sequel to Hills. Not that it left the door open for one – Craven had to retcon some details in order to 'revive' Michael Berryman's character Pluto & create an entirely new character in the Reaper. The only other members to make a return are Robert Houston (who only appears in some early scenes) & Janus Blythe, the cannibal girl now civilised adult.While the original was a minor classic & an important part of Wes Craven's career (the director would later mount a remake & a further sequel to it), this sequel is a far cry from the brutal intensity of the original. This time out, Craven treats the setup in a more slasher-like fashion (slasher films were the rage then), without any of the intelligence that he demonstrated in the original. The film moves with the pace of your average Friday the 13th sequel & even with a similar score, courtesy of that franchise's musical hack Harry Manfredini. The killings are no longer brutally visceral but standard slasher stalk-&-slash. The addition of a blind girl as one of the good guys is interesting, her trip past the bodies of her friends having a slight suspense value to it, but the rest of the cast are given one-dimensional roles. As for Janus Blythe, she doesn't get to face off with her family, instead taken out before the climax (although it is not made clear whether she was killed or simply knocked out).

I've read that Wes Craven made this belated sequel to his classic The Hills Have Eyes because he was desperate for work, and that things didn't go quite as planned due to the producers withholding funds; I'm not surprised that he's making excuses, because compared to the original, this is laughable stuff—a formulaic slasher that is so poorly conceived that, at times, it almost feels like a comedy.On the flip side, I never found it boring (despite numerous flashbacks to the first film, including one from a dog!): the action moves along at a reasonable lick with some fun kills, a few reasonable scares, a bit of gore (including a juicy throat slash), and some gratuitous female nudity (somehow, despite the film being set in a desert, Wes still manages to shoehorn in a shower scene).Part II ends in a suitably daft manner with the survivors successfully defeating the final member of the film's cannibal clan by devising a trap and finding the necessary equipment in mere seconds, and then carrying out their plan without a hitch, despite the whole idea being silly in the extreme.I give the film a rating of 5/10: there are far worse slashers out there.

The Hills Have Eyes Part II (1984)* (out of 4)Ill-advised sequel to Wes Craven's masterpiece has a dirt bike squad going out into the desert and of course they run into the cannibal family (led by Michael Berryman). Along with the group is a survival (Janus Blythe) from the first film and now she is faced with re- living her horrors.THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II was made because Wes Craven needed the money but the project was pretty much put on the shelf only to be dusted off after the success of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Craven agreed to go back and complete the film with what footage he had, which meant using clips from the first picture to expand the running time. He has since disowned the picture as has most of his fans. In all honesty, it's rather shocking to see how poorly made this movie is. It's easy to see why there were some production problems as it really does seem that no one is all that interested in the product. I'm going to lay the majority of the blame on Craven because this is perhaps the worst directed film of his career. There's just no life or energy to be found in the film and many of the scenes just drag on as if it was rehearsal hour at a high school. The lack of any real style for the majority of the picture is just something you wouldn't expect from a Wes Craven movie.The screenplay itself is somewhat of a mess as it has a lot more to do with Friday THE 13TH than the original film. It should also be worth mentioning that Harry Manfredini did the music score for this and it sound exactly like the 1980 film, which is something he did quite often. Not only does this look like that slasher classic but it also sounds like it! That just adds to the overall cheapness as do the death scenes that are mostly forgettable, although I'm sure the lack of money probably played into this.The performances are pretty much what you'd expect from a film like this but not even Berryman or Blythe could do much with their roles. THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART II also suffers from one of the worst moments in horror film history when a dog has a flashback to the events from the first film!?!?!?!? That alone makes this film deserve its notorious reputation.man who did the score for Friday the 13th also does the score here but he pretty much rips ever cord to the F13 score. The final thirty minutes of this also rips F13 pretty badly but what really kills this is the very poor direction from Craven. Having some of the most annoying characters in any horror film doesn't help matters either.