"Wolf Creek 2" isn't much different than "Wolf Creek," but it is markedly worse.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 16, 2014

"Wolf Creek 2" is gory, disturbing, inventive, twisted and rather well made.

| Original Score: B- | May 16, 2014

A fast-moving, lean killing machine that will delight genre fans.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 16, 2014

As well made as it is, it would be great to see what McLean could do if he were free from genre conventions and could put his many talents to use in a movie not built around beheadings and dismemberments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2014

Mick has been reimagined as a chortling, xenophobic butcher who enjoys a singalong of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" and dismembers his victims with the help of Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces."

| May 15, 2014

Ultimately the sequel's raisons d'tre seem to be emulating superior movies, from "Deliverance" to "Joy Ride" to "Saw."

| May 15, 2014

Offers little in the way of new thrills.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2014

While Creek has some notable frights reminiscent of the 2005 original, this version tries too hard to create a franchise-able serial killer from Down Under, a Mad Max with a machete.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 15, 2014

This Creek has run dry.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 13, 2014

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.

| May 13, 2014

There are cheap shocks in the film, but there are also terrifying moments that poetically command our empathy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2014

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 22, 2014

Mclean injects the grimmest of grim humour into the mix (including a bizarre reference to the Rolf Harris classic Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport), and I imagine Quentin Tarantino is one of the movie's biggest fans. But the end result is manipulative and ugly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 21, 2014

This is the most notable home-grown fiction feature to hit cinemas since P.J. Hogan's Mental.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 20, 2014

Mclean has made a lean and mean genre film that cranks the dial to eleven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2014