Unimpressed

Rating: 3/10 (7 July 2007)

A group of young and, quite frankly, rather moronic guys go to Amsterdam to do the only thing (as the cliché goes) that guys like them would and will do there. They're told they can get the exact same thing, only cheaper, in some lost-in-time country where girls are extremely hot and nymphomaniac and, WHY OF COURSE, they go there. They are more than welcomed by a couple of stunning chicks and we get to spot a few perfect and serviceable female bodies in the nude. Once, twice and so forth, you know, because... Because. If you like girls, take a look, you know. And go visit.
But alas life is cruel. It turns out paradise ain't paradise after all and the girls are evil scouts for an evil organisation where guys are kidnapped, tortured, mutilated and ultimately killed. You see one or two stomach-churning scenes which are okay. Yes, it sounds remotely exciting. Yes, the film actually has its moments and is overall amusing. But it's mainly more ridiculous than scary, which is very disappointing because it's gone great lenghts to prove its gory & ideological seriousness (the Evil Bar with the commie memorabilia was a riot, and the same can be said about the vegan vs. meat-eater standpoint).
The idea was good: post-communist countries set up as amusement parks for unscrupulous, hypocritical and nihilistic capitalists, engulfed by an unsatisfactory and numbing life where freedom takes its toll, who may buy female companionship and other forms of "extreme entertainment" and thus feel powerful again. That's happening, minus gory exaggerations. However, a good idea is quickly ruined. The film takes the easy way out: sex, gore and pure entertainment. Which is NICE, but it doesn't even excel in that department. Characters are unsympathetic (it might even be said that the psycho old guy they meet on the train is the only one that showed some real depth), storyline is badly told, the film runs out of ideas often and wastes precious time and as for the shocking scene, I couldn't care less about the guy who's suffering it and shock is alleviated by indifference.
Yet another lost chance.