A complete waste of my time

Rating: 3/10 (20 May 2006)

My sister and I rented this movie hoping to see a film scarier and more gory than Saw and Saw II. Sorely disappointed. I was expecting myself to get scared and queasy while watching it, but instead I laughed during most of the torture scenes and rolled my eyes at the majority of the cliché scenarios, like the dance club.
Luckily for me, I didn't have to sit through the beginning of the movie. My sister had watched it before I had and told me that at least twenty minutes of the start of the film was, basically, porn and drug use. I didn't get the movie to watch that kind of stuff, and the fact that I had to fast-forward through it just annoyed me.
One of the girls I go to school with is an exchange student from Slovakia. We started talking about Hostel during one of our classes and it was easy to see that the movie offended her. She said she'd talked to some of her friends back home and that they weren't pleased with it either. And who can blame them? I know I've never really wanted to go Slovakia, and Hostel didn't exactly help.
This was a basic waste of a movie. To me, the best part was watching Josh try to run out of his torture chamber with a severed Achilles tendon or whatever it's called. Not worth the time.