A bit of a letdown to be honest

Rating: 3/10 (29 March 2006)

Listening to interviews with Roth among others, it seemed like this film would blow you away! But alas it failed to deliver.
Rather than just ramble on, i'll list my dislikes of the film: 1) Zvetlana should have got all her kit off! .. OK OK .. i'll start again.
1) The film was slightly disjointed, for example when Paxton is brought to the "art show" and is about to walk down the tunnel to see what's inside, he is suddenly half was down the tunnel, there are 10+ rooms that are proceeding in torture yet we hear no screaming. He then sees his friend being chopped up and is captured himself. As he is being captured he is dragged past some torture rooms, suddenly there is a mass of screaming ... did it suddenly start when he was captured? Unlikely.
2) Same scene as number one, my complaint this time is that as he is being dragged past each room we can't see what is happening in the room, it just looks like more blood and guts, a slower drag would have done the trick.
3) Paxton running around outside with the Japanese girl as they attempt to escape, i don't know whether it's the camera angle its shot at, but how the hell could the Slovakian armed men not see them running about towards the car? Same at the train station ...
4) Why did they have to kill Zvetlana? The best ending would have been Paxton boarding the train with her, them going off to live happily ever after and setting up their own hostel. :-) Eamonn.