Ok, I can finally talk about this I think.
Here's why it sucked. The story is dreadfully repetitive and filled with dream sequences that render themselves pointless the minute they end. The premise is that the brother of the male lead from Rest Stop 1 has just returned from Iraq and decides to go in search of his missing little brother. I should mention that he says the words "my little brother" about 10 times in his first scene, just so we don't forget who he is. His entire purpose in the film sees to be to utter grunting proclamations with almost no charisma.
He takes along his drunkard, whore girlfriend and his geek best friend, seemingly lifted right out of Porkys with him on his journey. The girlfriend is best friends with the lead female from Rest Stop 1 and the geek always had a crush on her.
Lemme take a moment to expound on some horror film cliches and script mechanisms. It's ok for characters to make bad decisions, it's even ok sometimes for them to make dumb decisions. But when a movie, such as this one, is filled with characters who serve no purpose but to make patently absurd decisions for no reason other than to short cut the story and avoid adding actual tension or drama, well that's when they fuckin suck.
It's just a film full of people making dumb decisions and acting in a way that in no way reflects the situation they're supposed to be in. When a truck is about to wipe out the portapotty you're in, you don't spend 5 minutes making poop jokes, you fear for your life, unless of course the only reason you're in the movie is to make poop jokes.
Anyway, the characters are written and portrayed badly, the bad guy(s) are given a slightly interesting back story but they do very little and what they do do they already did in the first one.
This is almost a perfect storm of shit as it seems that everyone involved in the making, writing and acting aspect of this movie is completely clueless as to how to do their job in any way.
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