1st half ridiculous, 2nd half alright

Rating: 5/10 (18 January 2006)

Eli Roth made cabin fever which was not in balance. He did it a little bit better with Hostel, but not much. The movie does not meet up to its expectations, created by the name of Quentin Tarantino.
The first half is ridiculous with all the people in Amsterdam speaking German, taking the train from Amsterdam to Bratislava which according to the movie must be very easy. Then Bratislava looks like a city just bombed by the Nazi's, inhabited by street kids, men who look like they all belong to the mafia and beautiful young women who walk half naked all the time.
The last 30 minutes are more what I expected from this movie. The dirty horror, tension, trying to escape and a plot(or something like that).
The second half saves the movie, but Eli Roth has to improve his work a lot to score a 6.