Just plain sucks

Rating: 1/10 (25 April 2006)

Eli Roth has done the impossible: he somehow made rampant nudity and bloody gore as boring and insipid as humanly possible. The characters are all lame and no one could possibly care about them, the supposed torture scenes aren't even that 'torturous', and the plot is incredibly dumb and insulting. The ending makes no sense at all, we never get any idea of the motivations behind the killers, and the main killer is as scary as Clay Aiken. And how can you run a business about torturing people, hire seemingly dozens of henchmen and skanks to lure tourists, and no one find out about it? Even with the one scene showing that the cops are somehow involved wasn't enough for me to believe that NO ONE WOULD MENTION AT SOME POINT THE FACT THAT THERE WERE DOZENS OF PEOPLE BEING KILLED AND TORTURED. What kind of idiot would have a business like that and have this many people involved in it? And the ending with the Japanese girl was just a lame excuse to rip-off 'Suicide Club', as it had no reason for existing other than that. After seeing this Eli Roth guy make movies, it's clear it's who you know in Hollywood and not much else.
Awful. Just a total waste of time.