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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinHatchet II is distinguished both by a funky, frisky sense of humor, and gore of great quality and quantity.
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonOutrageously over-the-top gore doubtless will scare off all but the heartiest genre aficionados.
- 70The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSwift and amusingly brainless, Hatchet II more than delivers on splatter expectations.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenHatchet 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.
- 50Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaLos Angeles TimesMichael OrdoñaYou 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.
- 40Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesIt's a functional sequel, but with all that spirited slicing and dicing, the director could have at least broken a sweat.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertYou want gore, you get gore. Hatchet II plays less like a slasher movie than like the highlight reel from a slasher movie.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceThis 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."
- 25Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisEvery boogeyman and slasher cliché this movie borrows was better somewhere else. Although it probably wasn't grosser.
- 0New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoSay a prayer that there's no "Hatchet III" in the future.