Let Me Break This Film Down For You

Rating: 4/10 (28 April 2006)

45 minutes: "Hey, we're two Americans and an Icelander backpacking around Europe, except we don't have backpacks! We smoke a lot of Amsterdam weed and have sex!"
5 minutes: "Hey, some guy told us there's a lot of hot chicks in Slovakia. The Hell with Barcelona, let's go to Slovakia, waaaay out of our way so we can get laid based on a tiny conversation and pictures!"
20 minutes: "We're in Slovakia. Hey, more gratuitous sex. Hey, where'd the Icelander go? Hey, where'd the sensitive, possibly gay American go?"
15 Minutes: "Gore! Gore gore gore! Oh my God gore!"
15 minutes: "I escape by COMPLETE FLUKE and eventually get revenge and escape!" Sorry, that's about the gist of the film.
Unsympathetic characters, pointless, gratuitous sex galore, poor pacing (45 minutes of boring, 20 of good suspense, then hyper-drive into the rushed ending), and fairly bland acting. Silly plot twists (the kids during the escape), stilted dialogue. That's what this film consists of.
There was some good. Eli Roth can build suspense very well. He proved so here and in Cabin Fever. And the brief scene with Paxton and the American client was great, mainly due to Rick Hoffman's frenetic portrayal. The rest was serious disappointment.