this movie be just plain awful . the violence and sex and and language be gratuitous . the character be flat and the story banal and the acting stiff and the music contrive and and to top this all off and it one of the most shallow movie i have ever see . creative writing professor jack harrel and in his essay what violence in literature must teach u and defines violence a gratuitous when it be free and unearned and or unjustified . accord to harrell and for violence to be warrant in a piece ( whether or not it in the horror genre ) and we must care for the character and the violence must occur for a reason and and the violence must come at some cost . hostel meet none of these guideline . first of all and the main character be unworthy of any of our sympathy . backpack through europe and the three and all male main character main interest throughout the film be get lay and smoke pot . that their entire motivation . isn not the feeling of horror generate from the viewer worry about a character get hurt or kill . how be this suspenseful feeling suppose to happen when the character be constantly say crude thing like youre so gay and puy and take picture on their phone of their sexual exploit in a bar bathroom stall and and scream when a male character put his hand on their leg . the only thing this do for me be offend . why do the violence occur . apparently for a fee one can have the thrill of kill someone in whatever mean they wish . unfortunately this have absolutely nothing to do with the story ( i use this term very loosely here ) . all of a sudden the main character start disappear from the story and start enter some kind of green lit killing room where they get torture to death by some demonic person who have a short cameo earlier in the film . this be not a reason . when we find out later how this killing be sort of like an attraction for rich adrenalin junky and the only thing one can possibly feel be apathy . apathy for the story . all this just for that . what cost do the violence come at in hostel . none . the people who get kill be worthless to u and the people who be do the killing be worthless to u . we care not when some of the people who be do the kill get kill because we be not sure if they be the one in charge . there be absolutely no moral bone to chew on here . lastly i would like to talk about one thing in particular that really upset me about this film . towards the end of hostel a woman kill herself after look at the reflection of her newly disfigure face . this be probably the most gratuitous and shallow point of the movie . it also suppose to be it most dramatic point . first of all this character be only know to u a an asain woman who friend also go miss and doesn not want to party . that it . when the main character rescue her from the hand of the killer due to her screaming and which remind him of when he let a little boy drown a few year ago and we be surprise to find her in the green killing room . her eyeball be dangle out of her socket at this point . our hero decide to finish the job and cut the tenticles that keep it attached . a to the importance of this i can not figure . but when she take a look at her reflection and then throw herself in front of a train in very dramatic fashion i become upset . think of how many people in the world be disfigure . apparently life be not worth live unless your beautiful . that be the only message this movie could possibly have . how horrible .