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Review:
 Gratuitous
gore has been one of the staples of the cinema for quite a few
decades now. In general, what happens is that someone who has sex
with someone that they ought not have, or with anyone at all, gets
severely punished with dismemberment or death, and usually both.
So we have Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Josh (Derek Richardson) and
Oli(Eythor Gudjonsson) three young men off on the grand tour of
Europe. Pax and Josh are Americans, which means that they're
portrayed as boorish morons with nothing but sex on their minds.
Oli is from Iceland, but is portrayed as even worse, when it's
found out he's divorced and has a kid.
Most of the action in the first act takes place in Amsterdam,
where drugs and prostitution are not only legal but are tourist
attractions. In fact, while the boys are supposed to be pigs,
nobody else is actually any better than them, but we know that
they're going to get it in the end.
In the youth hostel where they're staying at they meet a fellow
who tells them about a place in Slovokia. A place where there are
women galore who want nothing more than to f#@! Americans.
So even though Oli is Icelandic, they decide to go. On the way
they meet a
weird businessman(Jan Vlasák) who likes to eat with his fingers.
Yeah, we know we'll meet him again.
They get there and everything's exactly as advertised. They get it
on with Natalya (Barbara Nedeljakova) and Svetlana (Jana
Kaderabkova) two beauties from Russia who turn out to be
thoroughly evil. After all, they're horny sluts with Slavic
accents.
First Oli disappears. Our two American morons become concerned.
Then Josh does the same. We know what's going on. This is where
the Dismemberment club meets and members get to viciously murder
young tourists staying at the hostel.
While the concept is kind of original (not exactly, there's “The
Beach” starring Leo DiCaprio, which was kind of similar, but
without all the blood and gore), but for the people who like this
sort of thing, there aren't really any jolts after the first
dismemberment.
It either goes to far, if you're not a fan of this stuff, or not
nearly far enough if you are. In either case it's not satisfying
at all. Give it a pass.
Eric Lurio
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