Turistas

Plot synopsis:
Three young American tourists, Alex (Josh Duhamel), his sister Bea (Olivia Wilde), and her friend Amy (Beau Garrett), are backpacking in Brazil. They decide to go by bus and visit parts of the country instead of flying directly to the Northeastern beaches they wish to visit. After a bus crash leaves all the passengers stranded, they are joined by two English men, Finn (Desmond Askew) and Liam (Max Brown), and an Australian woman, Pru (Melissa George), who is fluent in Portuguese. The group find a cabana bar where several other tourists and locals are partying. After spending the day on the beach, they are served drugged drinks and pass out.
The next morning, they awaken on the deserted beach, robbed of their luggage, money, and documents. Looking for help in the nearby village, they encounter conflict with locals as they see some of their belongings worn or lying around. Offering help, Kiko (Agles Steib), a local who speaks some English, volunteers to take them to an isolated cabin in the forest, where they can wait for help. In a long walk through the wilderness, Kiko shows them a “secret" cave beneath a waterfall, but, taking a bad dive into the river, Kiko hits the rocky bottom, and is rendered unconscious and begins bleeding profusely from a cut in his head. Proceeding to the cabin in the jungle, they find food, clothes, and a number of prescription drugs, as well as a drawer filled with other people’s passports. They manage to heal Kiko's wound and reluctantly decide to spend the night at the cabin.
They are awakened in the middle of the night by a helicopter bringing Zamora (Miguel Lunardi), a physician, and a few associates and doctors, surrounded by armed henchmen. A woman who arrives advises them to flee, but they are confused and try to fight them, only to be beaten into submission. Zamora proceeds to a makeshift operating room where he removes organs from a sedated Amy, while he explains to Finn, who is tied up, that organ theft for transplant from Brazilians by rich gringos is part of a pattern of exploitation of Brazilian "resources", and that it is time to "give back". Victims' usable organs are being harvested and sent to the People’s Hospital in Rio de Janeiro and used for the benefit of the poor. After her liver and kidneys are removed, Amy dies on the operating table.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group outside manages to break free from cages they have been contained in, and fight and kill one of Zamora’s associates, with the aid of Kiko, who returned after being sent away by Zamora. While Bea and Pru flee into the jungle, Alex, Kiko and Liam attempt to raid the cabin. They successfully rescue Finn, who is unable to walk because he has been sedated, but while they are running away from the cabin, Finn is shot in the head. Alex realizes they have to resume their escape, but Liam decides to stay behind to fight back, only to be shot and taken away to be "salvaged" .
Bea and Pru are separated in the jungle, and Alex and Kiko find Bea the next morning hiding near the river. The three head to the flooded cave, eluding one of Zamora’s associates who is trailing close behind, armed with a bow and arrows. For a time, they are able to put some distance between themselves and their pursuers. They enter the cave where they find Pru hiding. Diving and swimming to the cavern's secondary entrance, they find Zamora is also there, and he shoots them in the water, killing Kiko and injuring Alex.
The survivors are forced to backtrack into the water of the cave, where they can take air at only a few places. They are split up, looking for breathing points, trying not to be noticed and fall prey to the archer. Bea and the archer meet at the same breathing spot, but Bea grabs an arrow from the man, stabbing him in the neck and killing him. Alex, Bea and Pru get out of the cave only to run into Zamora at the exit. Alex attacks Zamora and repeatedly hits him in the head with a rock, but is interrupted by one of Zamora's henchman who is armed with a rifle. Zamora instructs him to kill the foreigners. Seeing the trio of survivors vulnerable and scared, and Zamora in agony, the man hesitates. This infuriates Zamora, who orders the gunman to carry out the killing. Pru tries to convince the gunman to spare them, pointing out Zamora's poor treatment of him. Zamora calls the gunman a coward, and is shot in the head by the gunman who turns and walks off. Soon after, the survivors, coming out of the jungle, meet local villagers who take them in.
Later, Alex, Bea, and Pru stand in line, waiting to board an airplane in silence while a couple of tourists behind them argue over going by bus. Alex turns and advises them to take the plane. The male tourist (director John Stockwell) says "thanks man", and they all board the plane. The last scene shows Alex, Bea and Pru sitting in the plane as it flies away.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
I think a lot of people would've found it better had they not expected a horror movie.
It was a thriller that was actually somewhat scary, which is something that suspense movies these days lack terribly.The parts I didn't like about it were overlookable.
Like in the underwater scenes, I thought the acting could have been a little better, but in the long run, Turistas isn't a failure.
'Turistas' was a fun horror flick with a 'Hostel' like plot.
I watched the movie and it was very very good.It had a great story line that was believable and made it more creepy.
something rating on here made me think this was going to be laughably bad but it really wasn't.I'm surprised this movie didn't do better!
I also really liked how they developed the characters in this but they could use less gore, I mean I know thats whats getting the audience for some reason lately but it didn't feel necessary and they kept a gross scene on for just too long.Overall, Don't get me wrong this movie isn't excellent but its not as bad as everyones saying it is.
One thing though, the English guy Finn I think his name was, man did he do my head in, I am English and I found him incredibly annoying.As a comparison I would say this film was much better than Hostel which I would give a 2 this I would rate as a five.
It draws out it's characters well, sets up moments of suspense for the horrors that will come, and keeps the viewer interested due to it's beautiful cinematography.Once the terror and violence actually begin (which doesn't happen until the last third of the movie no less) it goes way downhill.
The main villain (who ironically looks like the President of Iran) is not well drawn out, and the "climax" of the film is pitiful.There is however, fine acting jobs done by all involved, and a particular death scene that made me squirm in my seat due to its brutality and intensity.
If you really want to see a gore movie, with torture, blood and gross stuff for the major part of the film, go and see Hostel (I personally found the plot in Hostel interesting but the rest of the movie too unrealistic and kept laughing most of the time) The acting in Turistas is quite good and contrary to what other comments wrote, this is quite realistic and nobody is really making stupid choices.
This one explores the country of Brazil in South America, where tourists are taken into, as said before, a "Hostel"-type situation.As in "Hostel", it's all a matter of who to trust, whom not to, and what kind of things that people should be careful about when in foreign countries.It's a new taste of horror, and I enjoyed the film.
It isn't even a movie worth saying "at least I've seen it." If you think Turistas is a good film, I really think you haven't seen much of anything that is actually good..
If you like action, hot chicks, awesome acting, nice settings, good suspense and intensity then go see it, definitely worth movie and i would see it 20 000000 more times.
Every second of this thriller had you on the edge of your seat waiting to see what was going to happen next.Very comparable to the movie Hostel but was set in South America, more specifically Brazil.
Much like that film, Turistas is a thriller that relies upon suspense and tension rather than on brutal violence and gore.
And it wasn't as if you could tell what was going to happen every second of the film (at least, I couldn't) and I really feel like the movie went along at a good pace and the action was timed perfectly.
But as the ignorant and prejudge-filled persons you are, you will fill your ignorant sons with hate, starting the circle again.But obviously, you won't make movies about how Brazilians are kidnapped by people from the US (I am saying "people from the US" instead of Americans, because they don't own the continent, ya know), or how skinheads kill innocent Latinos in the streets.Besides this, the movie is boring, lacks a plot, the acting is poor, and the research for this movie...
Haha Secondly, This movie is in no way like Hostel, it isn't a torture movie (Although I did enjoy Hostel) Turistas is more of an adventure survival game thats fairly predictable but all in all if you can just sit back and enjoy the movie for what it is, it can be pretty entertaining and worth the admission price once it's over...SO LIGHTEN UP PEOPLE!
Stockwell brings a very strange vision to the screen, as he is also the director of two other movies with water scenes: Into the Blue and Blue Crush.Turistas tells the tale of three friends, Alex (Duhamel), Bea (Olivia Wilde), and Amy (Beau Garrett), who, after their tour bus falls from a cliff, are stranded in Brazil until the next bus comes.
After an incident in the town, a local man named Kiko leads the friends up to his uncle's house way out in the Brazilian jungle, where unseen horrors wait.Turistas is frightening because it could actually happen.
Turistas has a great climax, and it's nice to see a film from the horror genre finally end without screaming 'Sequel!' The cinematography is also utterly beautiful, as Turistas was actually filmed in Brazil.
Turistas may not be as gruesome as Hostel or as smart as Saw III, but it gets the job done well with a new take on a tired storyline, great acting, lots of thrills, an interesting killer, and the breathtaking landscape of Brazil.
TURISTAS is yet another talentless abomination made and released by the American film industry which hires reasonably talented actors like Josh Duhamiel and Melissa George, has them walk about in their swimming costumes, through mud and jungle (no production values needed) then mutilates the C grade characters (usually the non westerners) and then the rich kids who survive go home glad they got out of there alive.
It's very underrated and I'm still trying to figure out why because if a movie like Hostel does good then why isn't a better film like this doing good.
And to the list of good R-rated movies, we can now add "Turistas," a very dark horror film, to the list!!!!!Like "Crocodile," this movie is not only very exciting and scary; it also sort of follows the same plot line.
Also, about the travel agent thing I mentioned earlier, I do not know where this takes place (probably Mexico because Cancun is so popular and the title looks like a Spanish word for "tourists"), but I probably wouldn't recommend that place!!!!!If MST3K were still around, this movie would definitely be on!!!!!
The movie was a pretty good horror flick in my opinion, the characters are all stereotypes feels kinda like they should be in college or something, not brother and sister.
The girl even says something along the lines of "Brazil is the greatest place in the world, the weather is nice and the people are so chill" and hey, GET REAL its a movie FOOL P.S I was wondering what the name of the song is?
If the film actually conveyed any sense of suspense or edge-of-your-seat thrills it would have rated higher with me.Other "annoyances" like almost zero character depth, no explanation of what motivated the loyalty of Zamorra's thugs, no apparent reason at all for a sudden flip of loyalties and not a very thrilling finale made this film fall short of good or engaging.There is a lot missing from the story telling and it seems like there is a lot left to be filled in by the viewer.
'Paradise Lost' starts off looking like a promising little horror movie.A group of back packers are stranded in Brazil after their bus crashes, they think they've hit the jackpot when they hook up with some locals in a secluded beauty spot, beach, beer and babes, what could go wrong?
A few reasons why I was taken aback at how much I enjoyed this movie:The film slowly builds tension to a breaking point, Once it peaks (about the three quarters through) It maintains an almost unbearable level of intensity until the denounment.There are a couple of excellent chase sequences (underwater cave in particular) that were worth the price of admission alone.The acting is solid all around, the tone of the movie starts light and gets gradually darker.It has more in common with Deliverance and Southern Comfort than Hostel.In summary, I really dug the realistic style of the proceedings.
From the opening credits (a montage of passports and "scary foreign horrors", scored to upbeat Brazilian dance pop) the movie makes no bones about its agenda: foreigners are weird and scary, and if you don't watch your back, they'll kill you.From the initial set-up, we go through a predictable build-up to the half-way point, where the nasty stuff really kicks in.
It had OK acting, and pretty good character development.Now I am all for bloody, violent, disgusting, vulgar horror movies.
The pace of the film kept you interested, and the twists (although somewhat predictable) were fun to watch and kept you wondering what was next.I personally liked watching this movie.
They receive descending degrees of helpfulness from the locals until they realise that they should have caught the plane instead.This definitely isn't a movie the Brazilian Tourist Board would want you to take seriously in the year of the Rio Olympics; apparently Brazilians really didn't like it at all when it was released 10 years ago, and it was boycotted.They felt about it the way Australia's Tourism people probably felt about "Wolf Creek".
I know people who walked out of that one, although it wasn't actually boycotted."Turistas" is particularly well made, and shot on location with a very believable group of actors playing the likable and adventurous tourists.
Josh Duhamel plays Alex, a reluctant American traveller who has come along to keep his sister Bea and her friend out of trouble as they enter the sort of places strangers would be wise to avoid.Melissa George makes an impact as Australian surfer girl Pru. As an Aussie I must admit to a certain amount of national pride as she flitted around in a bikini revealing a body that is a tribute to an active, outdoor Australian lifestyle.You could argue that the film gets a little predictable towards the end, but I found the whole thing was so revved up by that point that you hardly noticed.
As far as Brazil's image is concerned, I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't take the actual premise behind the story too seriously, but maybe it's a reminder that double checking travel plans anywhere you go might be a smart idea - if the film has a message it's no more perverse than that.Anyway, international politics aside, I think you do get your money's worth with this travel package..
After hearing mixed reviews, i was unsure of whether to watch it but the trailers constantly came on the TV and looked Like a great horror.I instantly felt like i new the characters and there was a good "stereotypical" Bunch of people on.
I think music and settings were top-notch and overall think this film is definitely worth watching.My only bad word to say is it is quite short and has a cliché ending Very good choice of Hot actors to.People who enjoyed hostel or into the blue will most probably like this..
Following in the wake of the mediocre Hostel and the disappointing Wolf Creek comes Turistas, a slightly better (although still unexceptional) 'vacation in hell' horror movie that follows a bunch of travellers who wind up wishing that they'd booked a fortnight in Ibiza for their hols, rather than roughing it in Brazil.After narrowly escaping with their lives when their bus veers out of control and crashes down a hill, a group of '20-somethings' seeking sun, sea and sex in South America head for a nearby beach where they discover a party paradise: golden sand, blue sea, and a bar where they can hang out with like-minded backpackers and locals.After a hard night drinking and dancing, they wake up to discover that they have been robbed of all of their possessions; someone had drugged their drinks!
They hike to a nearby village, and run into some trouble with the locals, but are rescued by a friendly teenager named Kiko who promises to take them to his uncle's house.But in reality, Kiko is leading them to their fates: his 'uncle' is a crazed surgeon harvesting the organs of 'gringos' in order to help poor ailing Brazilians who are desperately in need of life-saving transplants.Structurally, this movie is very similar to both Hostel and Wolf Creek, with a slow build up which allows the audience to get to know the characters, before eventually unleashing the horror towards the end of the second half.
There are still a few moments where one questions the wisdom of the decisions made by the victims, but, on the whole, events unfold in a reasonably believable fashion.Best bits include the opening bus accident, the nasty and pretty gory 'operation', a great 'chase' through a series of underwater caves (all the more thrilling if you're a bit claustrophobic), and any scene in which the babes of the film totter around in their skimpy swimwear..
It follows the same awful formula, as most horror movies that are getting released these days: Naked women, loads of alcohol, random sex and then suddenly there are "bad people" that hack a group of 7-9 hot college kids to bits.
People, this film is pretty good and it ISN'T a stupid rip off of that sucky, piece of crap movie HOSTEL which was one of the worst films that I've ever seen.
It has suspense, a little bit of gore (not much), the obligatory "breast shot", and what I think is good - not great - acting.The story line is good and the movie progresses at a good rate.
It has constant action and keeps you engrossed in the film for the entire 90 minutes.But like I said, it IS what it IS....don't rent this movie expecting to see the next Horror Classic!
Look...This movie, is disappointing...BELIEVE ME I'm Brazilian...And, well...I know our Country reputation is not so good...But, well...This is a so ridiculous movie...We don't do experience with people...Brazil is not USA...Im sorry Americans, to disappoint you, but were not like as you guys imagine With movies like that, you people show to us, that your vision of my Country is a vision based on Pure Prejudice...The Brazilian People are very nice, you know...I ain't got words to express my disappointment with a movie like that...If a Brazilian want to make experiences with people organs...WHY A American ORGAN?LISTEN...We are not what you guys think we are!!!WE ARE CIVILIZED!!!Here in Brazil, lot of bad things happens, but this movie...It is so ridiculous...Well...Come to Rio, and see how it is...There is none EXPERIENCE WITH FOREIGNERS ORGANS...Man...Thats so stupid...For real....
The movie Turistas, like some other tentatives in the film industry to depict this country in the screens, has failed to the bones - or not, if you think that popular imaginary must be kept as it has been stereotyped for ages since the colonization.
There's always that need hanging over to show how distant America(or Europe) and Brazil are like it happened in the Stigmata movie, it starts somewhere in a jungle populated by hens and pigs with some human survivors who can actually speak some Spanish and look so primitive that one gets nauseated.
When we watch the backstage scenes, we see a lot of actors having fun on Brazil, really loving the place, saying they want to come back there every year.
I've seen a lot of horror movies in my time, and this rates about as low as it can get.
But there are a thin line among bad taste and idiotic stories.Some silly people miss to know HOW and WHERE, instead of do a 'thing' like this movie.
The movie basically starts out with all these good looking girls and Tad Hamilton in the country of Brazil.
"Turistas" (2006) isn't quite as bad as all its countless negative reviews make it out to be; I'd call it an average horror film and rate it a 6 out of 10.
The "horror" doesn't start until a full hour into the movie; the first hour is devoted to a lengthy setup and a (rather beautiful) examination of the natural beauty of Brazil, where the story is set.Second, there is probably less gore than you'd expect, given the film's story device.
After their bus crashes while touring in Brazil, a group of young adults find themselves in a world of misery...Not ever likely to be watched by members of the Brazilian Tourist Board, Turistas (AKA: Paradise Lost) is a whole mixed bag of a movie.
This is no great horror but it's got some B-movie goodness..
There are some differences in vibe and feel between Hollywood and foreign films, so if you're in a mood for foreign - finding out it isn't might be a little disappointing.Turistas has some beautiful landscape and view shots, the music is great, and everything gives you a "taste of Brazil".
I'm not going to remember Turistas as one of the better Horror films I've seen, or as one of the worse.
Well, first of all, this is not even close to a horror film, and much more a pretty good thriller.
If you go into this movie, expecting a "Hostel" like gruesome grimy gooey horror film, then you will be disappointed, or maybe surprised as I was, that the movie stands up well on it's own without being compared to anything.
Turistas is a good horror movie with good acting, suspenseful plotting and just enough gore to make it.