Review of Hostel (2011) by Andrew B — 28 Oct 2017

This movie makes a point at doing what it set out to do. And that is basically show you a guy torturing people for an hour and a half. But as a movie it is actually brutally boring and slow. Director Eli Roth and Quentin Tarantino are friends, so during the original advertising for Hostel every commercial would end with some reference to Tarantino having some indirect involvement in the film, which obviously made this idiotic movie garner more attention.

Take that stamp of approval from Tarantino and this movie probably would have made half the money it actually did, and that mostly from people who just wanted to see how gruesome it could actually be.

But put that all aside, and take the actual substance of the film, there is none what so ever. Boring and shock value do not go hand in hand.