Only explanation of high rating Quentin Tarantino=at least 5.75

Rating: 7/10 (17 January 2007)

Hostel had no plot, just a twist, which needs a story to make it work. It started out as soft- porn and ended with a bad Saw impersonation, then tops it off with a semi-original twist. I mean come on, dudes get drunk with overly-hot chicks, wake up in dungeon...yawn...yada yada yada...some dude gets drilled and luckily, the amateur torture guy trips and falls on chain-saw(oops), guy escapes and becomes hero!!!wait the twist-the one every lame horror movie has these days
-the rich are paying people to capture other humans so they can live out their darkest fantasies on people of other ethnicities, nationalities and races...wonderful twist...
the truly creepy films don't reveal the motive or the killers do not have motives like the Texas Chain-saw Massacre-cannibalism mixed with playful torture,no motive just because they can, Hannibal Lector-never explains why he likes to eat people, he just does, Devil Rejects-same as TCSM, cus they can, and Natural Born Killers-they kill because they enjoy it,end of story. These are great films in the horror/thriller genre but recently Saw re-wrote the formula, with the ambiguous motives until finally revealed in the last few minutes, then topped with the franchise twist. Turistas and Hostel are the byproducts of this new formula and have exploited it to the point where even the new Saw seems a little overplayed.
I too was foolish to think that this film would be at least original since it had the Quentin stamp of approval, but I guess he just loves picking up the checks or maybe the copy that I watched was totally different than the one he thought he was putting his name on...that must be it because this film is straight up garbage.