Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.
The most shocking thing about the sequel is that it's a dramatic improvement.
– Michael Ordona,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep 2010
rotten:
Suffers from lamentable acting, murky cinematography and, for the most part, lamely unfunny dialogue.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
1 Oct 2010
rotten:
Say a prayer that there's no Hatchet III in the future.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
1 Oct 2010
fresh:
Swift and amusingly brainless, Hatchet II more than delivers on splatter expectations.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
1 Oct 2010
rotten:
This is basically an excuse to watch skulls crushed like melons, guts ripped from body cavities and torsos halved. And such things go on with relentless and disgusting regularity.