Cringe fest

Rating: 5/10 (25 February 2007)

Now I understand the idea. Young people away from home and responsibilities (after all tourists have been going away with this idea for eons). And this movie could have been good. I was not 'into' the sex. I liked Josh's observation that there seemed to be no Dutch in Amsterdam. As someone said earlier, this would have worked much better as a thriller, rather than a gross out fest. The scenery was great and loved the locations. Strangers in a strange land. Although the plot relied 50/50 on sex and dismemberment I think the story would have been better, with more story. I wondered too if those tourists might not have been missed, as all roads seemed to lead to Rome, or that Slavic country they where in. Is life that cheap where no-one cares, where young women can sell people and find it amusing, far more scary than some might realise. Are we at an age where these things are possible. Have we created these animal children, who will kill for bubble-gum? Now for me it is these that frighten. The gore bits although gross-out did not scare me as much as 'Seven' and some other horror flicks, which gave me a sorta General Exhibition feel. Whilst still cringing behind splayed fingers. Nah! this movie could have been a lot more, the end not as short and the beginning shorter. Too much for Effect whether it be the sex, drugs or total disintegration of society and moral ethics. I think they should make it again, reduce the above, write a better script, keep the locations, and if one was to be involved with a thing about hunters then do some serious hunting for the cash. Even though obviously the thing with those with too much cash, is that time is money That was like shooting fish in a barrel. Poor fishes.