Oh, Eli... Why didn't you direct this movie too? I really liked the first two movies. Scott Spiegell is a writer (a fairly good one = Evil Dead 2) not a director. We really didn't need a straight-to-video (or DVD, I'm old dammit!) sequel.
This time the movie takes place in the old US of A (instead of somewhere in Europe). In Vegas to be exact. I kind of can see why (with all the empty space in the desert and crap) but really? Like we haven't seen that before a million times. Everybody knows there's shady things going on in Vegas (and what happens in Vegas blah blah blah...)
I actually liked that the actors again aren't huge names (for example there's the dude who played the son in Nip/Tuck). Still I would have preferred them to be total unknowns. The fantasy is better when you don't have to think "Yeah, like Brad Pitt is really going to die!" And to my surprise they were decent actors (like the first two movies).
The plot is worn as shit. Guys go to Vegas to have a bachelor party. Wooo... They get sold to the hunting club and as it turns out, one of them is a member. You know the one that.. umm.. the rich asshole one. He's supposed to kill his best friend but fails miserably. I loved his moronic motivation. He wanted the girl his buddy was going to marry next week (or like he put it: "When it comes to pussy, I have no friends." Great right?) The place gets blown up, looks like the hero went with the building and that the asshole got away. But SURPRISE!!! Last thing we see is the soon to be married couple killing the asshole. Nice (No sarcasm.)
I didn't hate this movie as much as it may seem but it wasn't as good as the previous ones. And the second one wasn't even as good as the first. This movie felt the slowest of the bunch. I was almost screaming to my TV "Stop stalling and go get killed! We came to see severed limbs and eyeballs hanging on cheeks!" I don't know if the version I saw was some mutilated version or if this movie for some reason wanted to do less graphic killing scenes (If so, might I ask what the fuck? You're selling people to be killed. For entertainment. You can't do the killing behind the corner. I wanted to see the most graphic killing so far.)
So yeah, it isn't the most horrible movie but if you want to see nice graphic violence I would stick to the first one. It had nice make-up effects (from which about half had been replaced with kind of crappy CGI in this movie) and the pacing was better.
I was ready to rip a new asshole to Eli Roth but he got spared this time. Maybe there's still hope for the future of horror and gore.