pointless garbage.

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2006)

This is easily the worst horror movie I have seen since Roth's other excuse for art, Cabin Fever. Eli Roth, in Hostel (much like in Cabin Fever), uses excessive violence to cover the fact that this movie lacks a point, direction, or conclusion. This movie is nothing more than an excuse for Eli Roth to construct a film that people will hail as the goriest of all time. What is the issue that this films represents? None. Is this film making a statement of any kind? No. One cannot tell if the point of the film was to glorify torture or deconstruct it. Beyond the fact that this film only appeals to the most brutish among us, the characters were horribly stupid. The character played by Jay Hernandez, Paxton, is a retard. Why would anyone go to Eastern Europe in the first place, just to meet girls? That almost makes sense. Then there is the part in the movie were he is convinced that an art show is taking place within a dilapidated building surrounded by guards with guns. That makes sense, I can see how anyone would come to a logical conclusion like that. Also, these characters must have an enormously high threshold for pain, because not one passes out from the pain or shock of being tortured, not even the Asian girl getting her face blow torched. In conclusion, the best part of this movie was when the Asian girl jumped in front of the train, because it best displayed my general feelings at the time. Nothing is worth seeing this movie again.