58
McLean puts the pedal to the metal from the start, forgoing suspense in favor of instant, gruesome gratification.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
63
There are cheap shocks in the film, but there are also terrifying moments that poetically command our empathy.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
This film is straight out of the bottle with no metaphoric or psychological pretensions.
67
If you can't handle extremes in your horror, Wolf Creek 2 is not for you. It is definitely ugly in places, and it wallows in it a bit.
40
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Even more inadvisable was the decision (whether made by Mr. McLean or his backers) to transform the mercurial psychopath Mick Taylor (a truly menacing John Jarratt) into a roguish cartoon.
40
Mostly, though, this Creek has run dry.
20
Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
Everything we can gather seems to nullify any virtues we saw in the original film.
30
Village Voice by Pete Vonder Haar
Wolf Creek 2 merely offers more of the same casual brutality. The only shocking (and depressing) part is how inured to it moviegoers have become.
38
Alas, Wolf tries too hard to shock to be effective.
50
Wolf Creek 2 does all it can to paper over the fact that it shouldn’t exist, but the film severely diminishes the integrity of the first Wolf Creek by turning Mick into a cartoon icon, more Outback legend than man.