A new level of depravity

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2006)

When you watch this film, the first question that comes to mind is why? Why watch this film? If you want to watch it like a normal Hollywood film, you won't stomach the film to the self righteous end.
However, if you watch this film as a student of the arts and recognize that this film is a tribute to the cinema of torture, you'll be thrilled, chilled and (most likely) satisfied. Maybe even pleasantly surprised.
But if you want to watch this film for sheer entertainment, and you were not involved in the making or producing this film, you belong in a nut-house.
The story is about two backpackers who (the third one is met on the way), while backpacking through Europe, are invited to an out of the ordinary hostel that is filled with horny girls who desperately want sex with American men. Sounds great, right? Of course! Happiness and good times are short lived for old Paxton and Josh because they become victims of a sick, twisted and depraved individual who gets his rocks off by brutally torturing people.
This film is very dark, sick, disgusting, often at times vomit inducing and takes human depravity to an entirely different level. The violence and blood in this film is off the charts. A portion of the audience walked out midway through the screening. All in all, Hostel is NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.
While the ending was good, it could have been so much better. Why? After sitting through all that garbage and sickness, the ending didn't do enough justice to all that we (as an audience) went through. Sorry, it could have been so much better.
My rating is for all you cats who think this film is the best ever made and gave it anything more than 2 stars.
I will conclude by saying that if you watch this film, you are just as guilty and no different than those rich people in the film who pay to see young lads brutally tortured. Pass on this film, you're not missing anything.