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Rating:  -
Hostel three is already on the way and it's ridiculous. I gave hostel part 2, 4 stars because in my opinion, for the plot. they should have had "paxton", the sole survivor of the first film. Notify the military, of the elite hunting organization, and have them go down to slovakia. To destroy the organization, that would have been way more better! What they did here was wrong, The sequel was suppose to end in this one. Paxton survived and made it down to america, i mean come on, you actually think paxton is going to keep his mouth shut about what happened down in slovakia. I would have reported this crisis to the military and have the organization wiped out. Mr roth, are you listening to what your fans want? Anyways, the movie was good but it could have been better.
Rating:  -
If you haven't seen Hostel, you don't really need to watch it in order to understand this movie. The character who survives in the first Hostel movie makes a brief appearance in a prologue scene in Hostel 2, but you can watch Hostel 2 on its own.
In Hostel 2, the main characters are 3 girls, college students studying art abroad in Italy. On a whim, they decide to catch a train to Prague, and while on the train, they run into the nude female model from their art class who tells them of a wonderful spa and springs in Slovakia if they're interested. They all agree to go with the model to check out the springs.
Of course, you the audience know this isn't an ordinary side-trip but a carefully constructed manipulation to get fresh meat for the rich buyers who get off on torture games on hapless tourists, such as the unaware college girls.
In Hostel 2, you get a glimpse into the clients who purchase these torture games and there is a brief, frenzied auction scene showing the various rich buyers who bid on the 3 girls. The movie goes into more detail behind 2 clients that purchase 2 of the girls for their sick games, so you get a little background information on who these people are, and how they operate (the head guy in charge of the operation is a suave European with his two bloodhound dogs, if you have watched Hostel, you know the bloodhound dog is the logo or emblem of this exclusive human hunter's club).
I thought there were quite a bit more disturbing scenes in this movie compared to Hostel, and during the torture scenes I had to cover my eyes and peek through my fingers (I also had to mute the bathtub scene.LOL). Okay yah, I'll admit I'm a wuss when it comes to hearing and seeing the blood and gore fly, and you're probably wondering, "Well, then why did you watch this movie for fool?"hehe. But, at the same time I was grossed out, I couldn't stop watching! It was mesmerizing to watch in a shocked and "OMG" way, and it was hard to look away.
I liked the characters in this movie better than the original, the girls were more likable and you get to know them a little better. There was only one small scene in the beginning of the movie that showed a death (but you don't even see it, you just see the aftermath), so there was no gore or death to distract you from learning more about the characters. By the time things start hitting the fan, you hope the girls survive.
I thought the best scene of the movie was the ending scene when one of the girls is bargaining for her freedom. It was so shocking, gruesome, and horrific, a big twist that I didn't see coming at first but I found myself thinking, "You go girl!!!" LOL. I didn't see it coming at all, and I felt the ending to Hostel 2 was even better than the ending to Hostel.
Anyways, I felt this was a decent horror movie. Not wonderful, but if you're in the mood for some hellish torture, and copious amounts of blood and gore, check Hostel 2 out!
Rating:  -
When the original Hostel was released, I was surprised at the manner in which Eli Roth (with a little help from his pal Quentin Tarantino) upended the horror template with a political allegory. In the original, all the victims were male, putzes, and essentially unlikable. You had to almost force yourself to root for Paxton even though you thought he was a first class A-hole. Add the relatively spooky plot and you had a better than average scare flick. Naturally, Hostel's success all but mandated a sequel.
And just as naturally, Hostel II blows chunks of body parts. Having used up all the original ideas in version one, Roth resorts to cliches for version two. The all-female victims are a central-casting clutch of American Students studying art abroad. You have the uber-nerd, uber-beyocth and uber-rich all lured to the infamous factory, where one by one, they get chased, trapped and captured for their trips to the chamber of horrors. The attempt at altering the obvious is done by giving us a glimpse at the manner of attracting clients to the factory, which is given a semi-funny montage. You also get to meet the brains behind the "Elite Hunting" organization, which removes some of the suspense...he's just another wealthy European aristocrat.
Eventually the three girls are brought in for their torture-kills. While "Hostel 2" does up the gore from volume one, the shock value is wasted. It's just mindless killing for the sake of titillation (although the too-short power cord was good for a nervous release chuckle), and Roth seemed more interested in seeing how many taboos he could cram into 90 minutes. Kill a kid? Check. Rape? Check. Cannibalism? Check. Gross-outs involving animals? Check check and triple check. It all adds up to a mind-numbing montage of excess without substance.
About the only place where "Hostel 2" outdoes its predecessor is the final twist. When it's time for the obligatory final victim to escape, the manner in which she does so did manage to throw me. It was the only thing about this movie that was unexpected, saving it from a single star rating. But given the generally weak reception this received at the Box Office (and the general slippage in the 'torture-porn' genre box-office all around - Captivity anyone?), my guess is we'll all be spared the indignity of Hostel 3.
Rating: -
This is a good movie. I liked it better than the first, and I liked the first alot. I love how it showed the otherside of the coin and how the whole "process" of finding the victims worked and also how it went in to the minds of a couple of the "clients". There are some disturbing scenes in this movie. Especially if you are of the male variety. Of course if you are reading all of these reviews one of the "reviewers" gives away quite a bit of the movie so be careful. Which brings me to my next point. This isn't a Disney movie people. I'm sick of seeing morons give this movie one star because it is too violent and sick. Watching and enjoying these movies doesn't make you sick or twisted just like playing games like GTA 4 doesn't make you rob and kill. Everytime I see someone give a movie one star because it is so sick and twisted makes me want to see it that much more. If you like horror movies you will like this movie. Ignore all the ignorant reviews that rate it low because it does what it supposed to do.....disturb you.
Rating: -
Hostel part II although lacking in the initial visceral surprises and strong story telling of the first Hostel (story telling that of course was masked by terrorist like torture scenes and gore) actually goes beyond the first film into an interesting study of the characters and why they engage, or think they do, in the grisly and at times interestingly exotic acts of ultra-torture and eventual sadistic murder. The movie moves naturally from moments of tension and uncertainly to slow motion moments of surreal art house abstraction where it almost seems the director, Eli Roth, wants us to feel sadness and pity for a disturbed middle American character that is compelled to go along with his buddies' enthusiasm over the idea of safely maiming and killing helpless young woman to fill a void in their life.
The movie itself feels like a statement of capitalism gone extreme. It actually shows the machinations of how the murder game works. Much in the way President Bush's administration tricked America into a war and invasion over weapons of mass destruction that were never there. Thus ALLOWING companies friendly to the administration like Halliburten to rape and pillage IRAQS natural resources, not to mention making the BANK MEN who control the World Bank even wealthier because the U.S. has to borrow money from them to fund the war, forcing the American tax payer to PAY BACK THE INTEREST. Many in the administration and or friends of have interests in the World Bank. So in effect, the more people that are killed in the war, the more money the mega rich of the World Bank money lenders, the oil companies, and weapons manufactures continue to make. The business men in Hostel II have set up a similar system where they cannot be captured or tried for their crimes of turning humans killing other humans into a big and profitable business.
Seen in this vain Hostel II is much more than just an interesting gore-fest. Made within the backdrop of our troubled times, it is actually a political expose disguised as a horror movie. A comment on the real horror.
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