Real Hostel's are much scarier than this celluloid turd.

Rating: 1/10 (27 March 2006)

Went to see Hostel on Saturday with my girlfriend. Neither of us were bothered by the n nudity that seems to be upsetting a lot of people. What we were bothered about was the fact that it was so bad. The sentence I uttered at the end, was the same exact sentence I uttered at the end of Cabin Fever. "What was the point of that?" The first half does drag on a little bit, but it was far more enjoyable than the ridiculousness of the second half. I imagined that the first half was supposedly grounding us in the characters so that the later scenes were more emotive. But we really learnt nothing about them, they easily could've been lifted from any teen road movie. There were some yuck moments, but the idea of what was being done was far stronger than the dodgy effects they employed. Badly plotted (if you can say there was a plot) poorly written, directed and acted. What Tarantino wants to put his name on this for, I don't know. and why Miike Takeshi was willing to be in it too, surprised me. This film really wants to be shocking and confrontational, but fails on every level, the trailer and press on this film is misleading, it's just crap. Very much one to avoid.