Too long before the action

Rating: 5/10 (12 March 2007)

3 guys on holiday in Europe check out the local hedonism to the point of what is no more than a pointless exercise in nudity and bonking.So far so bad. After that lot is over the real horror began when they visited a place called The Factory.The story had now become a case of living up to the blurb of "the goriest sickest movie you'll ever see" which it began to do after the guys became separated and one by one were taken off to be tortured to death. Naturally there had to be plenty of artistic license taken here-the first guy and the one who ended up escaping after somehow finding he had a gun in his pocket-had his leg prodded with a drill and it showed it going through.When he finally escaped the film seemed to have forgotten he was supposed to be chained to the chair but later he was able to function as if he'd just tripped up-his shredded hand he covered with a glove he found in a cupboard. In reality the first jab with the drill would have killed him and no way could he have removed himself from the chair or even moved his hands around to produce a gun. But we live in an age where films can make anything happen like cartoons. The special effects were very convincing and very sick. But no way after that 50 minute waste of time in Amsterdam's Red Light district could this movie hope to be 100% horror