This is no Pulp Fiction

Rating: 3/10 (17 August 2006)

Upon first seeing the TV spots for this I expected a fantastic well thought out thriller that I would now expect from Tarantino (Kill Bill aside). Eli Roth did a great job advertising this film and catching the attentions of Saw fans. The movie itself is horrible. It starts with three young men travelling from a drugs filled time in Amsterdam to Bratislava where they plan to get some sex from some of the girls who they have been told are there. If you hadn't seen the opening title sequence you would think this is a remake of Euro Trip. It's even got them travelling by train and a creepy foreigner getting into their spot and touching one of the kids legs. This is exactly the same as what I've seen before. I came to this film looking for something different. The film is mostly build up. It's 70 minutes of sex and confusion followed by 20 minutes of indescribable violence. The film is predictable, it doesn't tell a good story and it has an extremely clichÃ© ending. It defys everything that I thought it would be (the extreme violence aside).
But hey! At least it wasn't as bad as House Of The Dead