Complete waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (23 April 2006)

I hate to say it, but Hostel fits in line of many of its fellow Lion's Gate Films...
It was extremely over-hyped and fell VERY short of all expectations.
For the first half of the movie, there were countless unnecessary scenes with topless women (one really fat one, too). There were so many naked women, it actually took away from the movie. I expected to see a scary movie with some plot development, but I was very wrong. Apparently they lost the original footage for the first half of the movie and decided to use an old "Girls Gone Wild" video and hoped nobody noticed. With an absolutely horrible transition, the movie switches to complete gore. The gore wasn't shockingly horrible, either (contrary to advertisements). There was just lots of it. I honestly believe that Eli Roth decided to try to fit as many naked women and gory scenes in one film and this was the product. The writing was sub par, the acting wasn't much better, and the movie theater didn't allow refunds.
If you have any taste in movies, steer very clear of Hostel.