Excellent horror movie

Rating: 7/10 (30 April 2006)

I was one of those who didn't like "Cabin Fever" but I must say I was pleasantly surprised about "Hostel". I all ready knew the plot: (Spoiler Alert!!!!): which is: Travel, sex, porn, torture, escape, revenge. It is a bad plot but one does not view such movies for the plot but for the effect and the suspense. This movie is one of the most suspenseful I have ever seen. It's true that the acting is lacking at places, and also that there is no realism in the plot (Spoiler alert again!): These people have no motive to torture. No one would pay to do this. It's true people torture each other for all sorts of reasons but not for the reasons in this movie. It is very persuasive but still not realistic. Moreover (more spoiler alerts!) the notion that the last surviving guy just whacks off all his victimizers in a single sweep sort of meeting all of them on his way home is not realistic at all. The way he escapes from the tortures is also pretty dumb. Why not just walk out? He had a gun. Surely it would not be easier to hide among the corpses and hope for the best while he was being transported somewhere. Anyway, this is surely a great movie about how rough Europe maybe especially Eastern Europe can be!