Overrated

Rating: 6/10 (20 March 2009)

The plot = three friends backpacking through Europe and when they hear that Bratislava is full of horny chicks, they immediately pack their bags and jump aboard the train. Well, what they've heard is all true, but what no one told them was that a company in Bratislava makes a living by kidnapping tourists and letting their clients kill them for a price. The three friends soon find themselves in some very difficult situations to say the least.
After reading all the stuff about this movie, and seeing trailers and pictures on the Internet and magazines and ended up #1 at the box office and became a smash hit, so I was expecting something brilliant, violent brutal and gory in the same vein as Saw, probably made because Saw became a surprise box office hit and the film makers wanted to quickly cash in on the ongoing craze.
But in My opinion Hostel is overrated, yes it's violent and gory but to my feelings are mixed, it's an okay movie but it's not something I would watch time and time again. And what gets on my nerves is that a lot of horror movies that come out these days say they're based on true events, which I think is complete ballocks.
The three friends play they're parts well but none stand out for me to be honest. Hostal is a good movie but not great, and it's great that they've made gory horror movies mainstream, because for gore I revert to old Italian horror movies in which none of my friends ever heard off, saw I'm glad this and other movies like this have paved a way into a new wave of horror. Plus there are some pretty gruesome gory bits in which I won't go into much detail about, but it's definitely not for the faint hearted.
All in all Hostel is a good movie, It just isn't as gory as it is hyped up to be.