ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

TonyMontana96 (Originally seen many years ago) I have never seen the first one, and I never will, because this absolute pile of garbage is among the nastiest pieces of inhumane garbage I have ever seen. This time the army are attacked by vile creatures, the creatures slash them, stab them and you get the rest, but what makes it even more revolting is the fact one of them rape's a woman so she can have baby mutants, I could have vomited, if I weren't familiar with the ugliness in these alleged horror films. I hate these film's with a passion, film's like this and Wolf Creek and the Halloween remakes are designed to entertain people while people are brutalised for the studio's profit. I hate every one of these vicious exercises in sadism, they are repulsive, nasty pieces of filth. 0/10

bowmanblue 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.

Andrew Spaulding i cant believe the studio approved this for release, it was horrible, it certainly would not be calling for these national guards men to come to my aid, they are written into the script as stupid, incompetent, and have no common-sense at all, it was painful to watch, , when they arrive at the scientist camp site which is deserted they seem to feel nothing is wrong, even after they fail to contact them, they then spot a mirror signal on a hill which they then decide must be one of the missing scientists, so with no concern what so ever they pack up and leave..what follows is a disaster, watch at your own peril,this movie is by far the worse iv seen, and iv seen some bad ones. i wont waste my time writing a long boring review..even though my review would be a better read then the movie would be to watch.

Wuchak The 2006 remake of "The Hills Have Eyes" was a decent slasher-in-the-desert flick; forgettable but entertaining nevertheless. So here we have the 2007 sequel.A group of National Guard trainees go to a mysterious camp in the New Mexican desert to resupply and train, but they find it abandoned. They soon discover that the barren "hills" are infested with a bunch of hideous mutant cannibals. Can they get out alive? I was actually impressed with the serious and sometimes moving vibe this film has. It may be a gory slasher flick, but the filmmakers make it respectable. The cussing-every-other-word tends to bring the respectability down, but I was in the Marines and this was how enlisted guys talked in the field, generally speaking. By "moving" I refer to the love & loyalty that members of the team reveal for each other over the course of the story and the accompanying score.Some complain about the stupid mistakes the soldiers make but, remember, they're trainees, and National Guardsmen at that, not career soldiers. Besides, mistakes are always made in the heat of life-or-death combat.I heard someone else complain about Jessica Stroup being too good-looking to be a soldier, but I've seen some hot enlisted babes. One girl I knew from high school enlisted in the army and she sent me a pic of her at an Army party in Europe wearing a bunny costume and she was as hot as any Hollywood starlet you'd care to name (she's now a cougar Colonel, lol).The problem with this movie is the thin plot. My description above is the entire story. The whole film's an intense survival situation.Those who like gory slasher or survival flicks should like this, especially if you prefer military-oriented stories. I'm only giving it a fairly low rating because it's not a film I'm anxious to see again. There's just not enough depth, epic-ness or hot women for my tastes (although Jessica Stroup has a really cute face), but that's just me.The film was shot in Morroco (of all places) and runs a short-but-sweet 89 minutes.The DVD I saw is the unrated version.GRADE: C+ (or B for gory slasher fans)