Hostel Part II (2007)

Summary: Beth and her 2 friends, Lorna and Whitney are traveling Europe and enjoying their time. They decide to once again change countries and up meeting up with a young Slovakian model. She entices them to a wonderful spa and hostel in her home country. They go their, find some nice pleasant guys to hang out with...only to realize this spa is really gonna end up as their funeral home!           Overall: Can I say...I loved the film’s trailer. The one in German with the subtitles. Might be the best movie trailer of all-time for me. Great stuff. Really had me pumped up for this film!           Ok, on to the action. 2 things stuck with me as the film progressed that I really couldn’t shake off. First is the trains into Slovakia and the cities in that country. I’ve been to Prague and Bratislava. I spent 9 months in Budapest, Hungary. I’ve been on many a Eastern European train to these countries. Where all this violence and thievery came from, is simply a figment of the filmmaker’s imagination. I really came away with this as portraying these countries as dangerous, and frankly, they weren’t. I was almost insulted by the way this was portrayed. The first film plus this film do not justice to that part of Europe. Hey, if you’re looking for problems, you’ll find them. But you could easily go 9 months in Europe and never once even have your pocket picked let alone anything else.           The other issue was the connection between parts 1 & 2. Think how the first film ended. Paxton escaped the room, snuck down the halls, into the changing room, out to the car, then back in, saved the girl and out again. Little fighting but a lot of hiding and seductive escapes. Think how the hunter Paxton meets in the dressing room talks of why he’s there. He shows the tattoo but doesn’t know much at all about his soon-to-be victim. Now think about this film. I absolutely loved the scenes showing us our 2 new hunters, how they got the call, how they got the tattoo, etc. Great stuff. But this film really doesn’t connect must with part 1 unless one thing happened... And that’s Paxton’s escaped ramped up security. How he escapes in part 1 is impossible for part 2. This film has security guards, video cameras, code key pads, etc. This film makes it seem like it’s the same place, same bad people, soon after. But this film really tightened security around the bad guys and frankly, I’d have liked to see a connection via the plot to explain this. Otherwise it just doesn’t seem cohesive.           Overall, a good film but has issues when seen with part 1.           Comparison: Hostel meets Euro Trip

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