Mostly boring and unsatisfying

Rating: Null/10 (7 October 2015)

Before I get into criticizing this movie, I feel I should admit that I am human. I often enjoy seeing movies that involve sexual material, and I also often enjoy seeing movies that have a lot of blood and gore shed. This movie certainly has both of those ingredients, and in great quantity, but all the same the movie failed to interest me that much. You can't just put great gobs of nudity and bloody violence in a movie and expect it to therefore be instantly great. You have to put substance with it as well, and that is where "Hostel" fails. For starters, the movie is very slow-moving - it takes forever for the protagonists to find themselves in trouble. And during that long period before the crisis starts, what we see of them is not exactly endearing - they come across as simple-minded sex-obsessed youths. While I'm speaking of the characters, the movie also fails when it comes to the antagonists - we learn almost nothing about them. As a result of that, there isn't a great feeling of danger to be felt. You'll just tiredly watch the mayhem and look at your watch to see how much time is remaining until the movie comes to an end. A real disappointment.