Hostel

By now we've all heard of Hostel. Supposedly one of the most twisted horror movies ever. I would have to disagree. I understand and see what writer/director Eli Roth was trying to do here, but...meh. This just doesn't really work to me. It feels like he came up the idea of a place where you pay to torture and kill people, then tried to write some story around it. Which, could have find, but then he goes and tries to make us care about the characters. He doesn't have the writing talent to make me care about anything, let alone people.

The first half of this movie was just soft core pornography fueled by a seemingly endless drug supply. Roth's depiction of Amsterdam, and most of Eastern Europe is that is all just a modern day Roman Empire. No rules, anything goes, everyone has sex with everyone and apparently STD's don't exist either. I'm not sure what world this is supposed to exist in, but when you're trying to make everything so real, this really all really took me out of it.

There never was a time when I was actually shocked by this movie. For something with so much hype, I honestly expected to see more. The part that was supposed to be the grossest, most disturbing part actually had me laughing the hardest. I mean come on, that eye was so fake. You'd think Quentin Tarantino's money would be able to buy better special effects.

So I laughed and laughed as Roth failed to build suspense, and the whole revenge ending was rather anti-climatic. Also, how did Jay Hernandez know to kill the antagonist the same he his friend was killed by him? When his friend was killed, Jay was passed out in a storage closet at the bar. Stupid. Anyways, the acting and music were both terrible as well. This movie wasn't very good, and wasn't very shocking.

Shock or Not? Not

Film: 2/5
Shock: 2/5