cinematic freedom requires cinematic responsibility

Rating: 3/10 (4 November 2006)

The magic of the movies is lost forever, after this movie, the same medium that brought us Fred Astaire dancing , so gracefully as now produced this mess.At best movies can take the human condition and say something important, sadly Hostel does nothing of the kind ,we are spared no gruesome detail of mans inhumanity to man.There is a story of sorts that you can quite easily pick to pieces, there's no real good guy to root for just someone who is less marginally unpleasant than everyone else.The torture scenes are horrific, staunch churning to say the least.Movie directors such as John Ford or Hitchcock could hold an audience's attention by telling us a story about people we cared for, and building up suspense by not showing us everything.I don't object to violence when its making a necessary point and is in context with the subject matter as in Saving Private Ryan but this is an orgy of torture and is the product of a sick mind.The saddest part of all is that some people on this site say its the best film they have ever seen, I can only take that as meaning Hostel is the only movie they have seen