Nasty movie

Rating: 1/10 (28 February 2007)

Regrettably, this is 2 hours of my life I won't get back. Quite why I bothered with this film is beyond belief as I was willing to give it a chance because I wanted to make up my own mind about it and not rely on other critical opinions of the film which are often made by film critics who have not watched the film they're supposed to be reviewing.
This film is based solely on one unpleasant premise. Show enough gore, torture and thin women with no clothes on and you will have an audience and thus, an income. There is no other reason for watching this. It certainly doesn't qualify as 'entertainment'.
The plot is basic, if at times annoying. Three backpackers fresh out of college and two from America journey to Europe (or rather Eastern Europe) and hope to get very drunk, very stoned and have lots of guilt free sex with young, thin Eastern European women who seem to think all American men are great in bed (I'm serious). After a series of sexual, drug and clubbing adventures they venture into former Soviet union territory (something unthinkable in the eighties) and are lured into an underground movement of Europeans who provide foreigners (all kinds) for rich people (mostly men) to torture, mutilate and possibly kill in the most messy way possible. Said men pay a lot of money for this 'privilege'. What ensues is a lot of nightmarish rubbish involving all the usual equipment of torture: chainsaws (how obvious), cutting Achilles' tendons with scalpels, guns and various other torture gear. That's it.
Don't say you haven't been warned.