The basic scenario has limitless potential, enough to where I can understand why someone might find it exciting in concept alone. But the filmmakers are too concerned with incorporating action and sleaze to bother themselves with telling a good story.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 1, 2023

Neveldine/Taylor destroy cinema and manhandle it brutally into spastic life in two short strokes.

| Original Score: A | Sep 22, 2022

Tops its predecessor in every method of excessive vulgarity.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 28, 2020

There is something undeniably disturbing about a story that is so plainly intended to degrade every character in it. And yet that is its charm.

| May 23, 2018

Plays it to all heights if idiocy where suspense of disbelief is no longer an instrument to the entertainment.

| Jun 11, 2013

[T]he best use of REO Speedwagon since Smiley Face.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2010

Feels like shock for shock's sake instead of something morbidly inventive like the first one.

| Dec 17, 2009

Copping to how unrealistic your movie is by excusing it (no, no, it's a video game!), rather than running with it, is a mistake that Taylor and Neveldine never recover from.

| Nov 9, 2009

...an agreeable companion piece to its admittedly superior predecessor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 7, 2009

Waking up in the aftermath of a meth-lab explosion might be less disorienting than watching this. And if you think there's no room for more, Neveldine/Taylor are probably a weekend and a bag of crack-filled Pixie Stix away from proving you wrong.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 15, 2009

See this f%$&*ing movie, mate.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 11, 2009

Basically the co-writers and co-directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor sneer at any kind of rules, decorum or morality. Anything goes, as long as it's within the realm of exploitation-level "B" moviemaking.

| Sep 10, 2009

Yet another D.O.A. for the ADD era.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2009

Both exhilarating and exhausting, it falls just short of a fever pitch.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 2, 2009

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| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 10, 2009

...just as sloppily caffeinated as before, with an extra layer of scummy race jokes.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 1, 2009

The only shocking thing about it is how dull and predictable the whole enterprise is.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 24, 2009

Adrenaline-propelled and outrageously offensive, it's a cinematic video game that's neither coherent nor credible.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 23, 2009