Could have been much better...

Rating: 6/10 (1 September 2010)

Yesterday i watched hostel due to some rumors i had heard about the movie and it's gory scenes.Frankly speaking i found it a bit disappointing...First of all,the story was good,but its development during the movie was very very slow.The movie started with three friends who having been convinced by another guy who tells them that the best girls are in Slovakia,deciding to go there.The three guys are going there and are finding some girls and are start having sex.This situation lasts for i don't know how much.Some moment,one of them is being vanished in thin air and later dying(via decapitation-without seeing this act,just his cut off head).After a while another one is being vanished too,but this time you can see the torture he is suffering.Then the only survivor of the three friends is deciding to find them.Being guided by a female friend of his,he is going where the tortures are taking place and is being held as one of the many captives and -soon to be tortured and dead-unlucky people.But in an instant twist of fate the killer is injuring himself with a chainsaw and the captive(who had two fingers on each hand cut off,before the killer's accident) is being released and shoots the killer to death .After a while he is making it and is reaching a car.But,the time he is ready to escape,he is hearing the screams of a girl he had met before who is getting her face burn by another rich-psychotic-wanna feel something special-person.Then he decides to go back and rescue the poor girl.Having killed the psycho and released the half-burn-faced woman he is making his way to the station alongside with the girl.While arriving at the station the girl having seen her face at a mirror commits suicide by jumping on the rails while the train was arriving.This action gives the survivor a great opportunity to get inside the train without being seen by the people who are after him alongside with their partners in this insane psychotic system,the police .In the survivor having left Slovakia gets his revenge by killing in the restroom one rich psychotic-wanna be surgeon.As i stated above the story was good but it had very slow development.The length of the sex and prostitution scenes was nothing else than pointless.The promising director Eli Roth should instead of spending so much time of the film in the three guys' boring "love story" start the tortures quicker.In my opinion this would make the film more interesting.One of the positive elements of the film are some gory scenes that are taking place even if they are not as gory and violent as i expected.Also the movie had some suspense in the scenes of the survivor's escape inside the building.To sum up,the movie was just good,nothing' great,nothing' terrible.It had some gory scenes and some suspense and that's all.To cut the long story short the movie can be described(for me) with one phrase:could have been much better...