Dumb, boring and amateurish on nearly every level

Rating: 2/10 (30 December 2006)

Being a fan of horror movies all my life, this was a big disappointment on nearly every level. The story was unbelievably dumb and the movie dragged on a very slow pace for nearly an hour, before the action starts. The look is totally amateurish, the make up effects are a throwback to the Italian gorefests from the eighties. There is no single shock in the film, the blood and guts I expected are also absent. OK, there is some gore but nothing spectacular and not very much, except you call a few body parts lying around and a few puddles of blood as gore. The was not a single bit of suspense in the whole movie but a ton of dumb coincidences making me shake my head. I feel sorry for the talented Jay Hernandez being in such a mindless and boring movie. Whatever Quentin Tarantino saw in this flick, I can't find it. I gave Hostel a 2 because Uwe Boll and Rob Zombie make movies even worse than this one.