what was this?

Rating: 4/10 (18 April 2006)

I remember having read that Quentin Tarantino pitched this movie as a reinvention of horror or some such. I was quite thrilled and watched it recently. When the credits began to roll at the end I honestly asked myself what Hostel was supposed to be, what the makers of the movie want to tell me with this thing. It was neither particularly shocking, thrilling, exciting, sad or artsy fartsy. The only thing it was was gory at times but it wasn't gory enough to be a classical gore movie.
I didn't care for the protagonists, the plot didn't go anywhere. I remember thinking OK, when does the actual movie begin? Where is this leading? Then after some mild predictable action the movie was over - very abruptly. No twists, no turns, no revelations.
If you rent this movie for a pop corn DVD evening it is OK as you won't be bored - but don't expect anything beyond that.