A waste of time.

Rating: 1/10 (2 January 2007)

To put it bluntly this director should have been stopped after Cabin Fever and Kill Bill 2. Although Kill Bill 2 does have its credits and a fantastic story line continued from Kill Bill. Hostel did it. I've never seen such mechanical and monotonous rubbish. What was the point? Where was the story line?
Take the first half of the movie. A couple of really perverted young men womanizing, seeking prostitutes and using women at there will. So did the director. The start of the film shared the resemblance of a really bad porno, and pointlessly. Maybe the director could have made it necessary. I understand that they were seeking the thrill of girls, but never have I seen women being portrayed so relentlessly as a tool for some weak willed and obviously poor natured young characters. The sexual content of this film should not be likened to American Psycho, American Psycho had a story line, a plot and a reason. Although still it was poor. If I want to watch porn, and not something with substance I'll get some but when I want to watch a movie- I want to watch a movie that has some sense to its contents. I think this really paints a revolting picture of young America.
The second half of the film is blood and guts and really it's a horror, but there is nothing as displeasing as watching effects that are really quite good, but knowing that it's all for nothing. Pointless and meaningless. Completely unmoving. There is no reason for it. Needless slaughter, and without a single reason but these people like killing people. It doesn't even broach the topics of life and death, or living, freedom, of cause, of morality, of heroism, of need. It was not thought provoking in the slightest. It was complete nonsense. It's a wonder there is anyone watching it at all. The 18+ restriction baffles me as it is not worth an adult audiences' time. It is aimed at 15 year olds and that's giving credit.
So if you can tell me what the point of the film was, how it made you tick and think, I seriously believe that it might be time for you to find meaning in something worthwhile and where there actually is some. If the point of the movie was to be pointless, then there shouldn't have been a movie at all, and it really did succeed.
Quite frankly if I had rented this movie, I would have stormed back into the video store and demanded my two bucks back. It was that bad. Instead it was loaned from a friend and I almost think less of him for owning it. It was absolutely fruitless I should have spent my evening reading a book with no words.