There's a good movie hiding somewhere in Hostel: Part II, though it suffers by comparison to the original - and because Eli Roth doesn't dare take the series into any new places. There was certainly room to expand the story, though, and his total reliance on the formula of the original seems both lazy and surprising. The original Hostel tells the story of three backpackers who are captured and sold as objects to be tortured by paying customers: the sequel is about exactly that, too, and nothing more (though, this time, the characters are female). A good sequel to Hostel might've dared to have the only survivor from the first movie, Paxton, teaming up with the gutsy protagonist in this one, Beth, as the attempt to overhaul the shady corporation that murdered their friends. Instead Roth kills off Paxton (totally unnecessary, and insulting to the original) in the sequel's opening scene, and has Beth move through a series of sequences we've already seen before. Uninspired, but vaguely enjoyable, nonetheless.