slow film....better towards the end

Rating: 7/10 (30 March 2006)

Couldn't wait to see this after hearing so much about it... had read a few bad reviews and some pretty good ones so decided to give it a go today. I had been told that the beginning had plenty of topless women and that the three main guys were good times guys out for free sex with anything and everything. Why did the one guy seem to have a thing about his ex yet soon got down to it at the "Hostel" Seems a bit of an odd thing to add to the storyline when it made no difference to the way he acted. About forty minutes into the film I was feeling a bit let down. as usual an American film with fresh looking good looking slim people who aren't too bright. BUT it does get better. The one torturer seemed a bit odd and kept hyperventilating and eventually gets killed. The Achilles heel part was pretty gory and i couldn't help saying "Yuck". And it gorier.The oriental girl and the eye part was pretty gory, and i laughed at the scene with the people waiting for the train and how they get splattered with blood when she jumps in front of the train...great bit. And the guy in the car when his head was being smashed by the stones. one of the bits looked really realistic. I love a good horror film or a scary film and would probably watch this again but do feel it was over hyped in the adverts about it. Tarantino should stick to the kind of films he is famous for, this won't be one of them. The ending in my view could mean maybe a second one. They have his passport so know him and may follow him to kill him rather than him tell people about the hostel/killings/police etc etc.