Cruel movie without depth

Rating: 1/10 (1 May 2006)

Sorry for any spelling issues - English is a foreign language.
At first I must say that I'm totally disappointed of Quentin Tarantino. I liked his movies and how brutality was used. But Hostel totally shook this opinion. I can't understand how Tarantino could engage his self in a movie like this.
The story bores from the minute the film starts. The 3 main characters have no depth and somehow their stupidity makes the viewer lack any feelings for them. The first 45 min. you see them smoke weed, f*** anything that comes across them and that's totally it - sounds already boring? Their play is also more sort of a B-Movie - except there is no point to laugh. Then slowly the "story" unfolds - which is easy to get behind - there is no suspense. To compensate this lack of suspense splatter of the worst kind is used. I mean in general I'm a fan of splatter - chainsawing Zombie, exploding heads, we've already seen anything like this - but always in the right place and packed into a story. Don't expect this to happen in Hostel. Drilling holes into legs and cutting of Achilles Heels is not cool, it's cruel and this film shows things like that in Close Up. Don't get me wrong I'm not a sissy, I've seen worse in the hospital where I worked. But in Hostel you don't even care if the 3 boys get killed, you don't have a relationship to them. This film celebrates the cruel killing as its only content. This is not cool, this is boring. Splatter films with zombies are cool, splatter films from Japan are cool, B-Movies are cool. But Hostel is plain cruel and boring - because it doesn't involve you. You're just disgusted by the things shown.
Another major issue are the stupid stereotypes. Pot smoking Netherlands, poor, ugly and criminal former Soviet people. Simple characters is the most friendliest term that comes to my mind.
Don't get fooled of the trailers and the Tarantino thing, this movie sucks and is not worth your time. Watch From Dusk till Dawn instead and see some nice splatter.
1 Point for a film thats ending is as surprising as sand in the desert.