Raiders of the Lost ark with more blood but less melted Nazis!

Rating: 10/10 (9 February 2006)

I'm not sure now what I was expecting the first time I walked into the theater to see hostel but I know it didn't deliver. I think I was expecting to be sickened until I puked or so disturbed I'd never set foot in a theater again but those are unrealistic expectations in this day and age of media overload and desensitization.
What I did end up seeing was one of the best adventure movies I have seen in years. Vin Diesel eat you heart out. Paxton ended up being the best American action hero since Indiana Jones.
Now, I've got to get busy writing nasty reviews of every horror film that is based on rural farmland and misrepresents those of us that choose to dwell in such areas. I'm going to be a busy man!