the premise of ira roth hostel be the european vacation of two all american college boy and whom we meet in amsterdam and where they get high but not happy . paxton ( jay hernandez ) and be a law school grad with no qualm about pay for whatever the market offer and which in amsterdam cover a lot . he try to cheer up his friend josh ( derek richardson ) and an aspiring author and by tell him that life experience be grist for the writer mill . josh want badly to hook up with exotic woman and but his sensibility would not permit him to patronize the world old profession and unlike his coarser compadre . his frustration fuel the ugly american ethos of entitlement that he bring to the party and and hamstring his chick cruise move . enter alex and who give the american and and an icelandic traveling companion and one of those tip that must be urban legend by now represent a hostel full of loose lady that not on any map and in a country squirm with lonely beautiful woman and in love with the american accent . our pleasure seeker do not care if alex be a pimp and and they certainly do not suspect whom he pimp out . they leave for bratislava and in a slovakia which and accord to alex and be bereft of men because of the war . just exactly which war and be something our boy might well have ask and before cross a continent in search of hot babe . a it be and roth disembarks them at poricany and a town in the middle of the czech republic and near prague not bratislava and where our college educate youth fall victim to their own blinker view of the world . seek frivolity in cold blood foreign street and they end up be exploit to an unimaginable extreme and on a level that be unbelievable even in today real world of sex tourism and pirate and child predator . the mentality that wrongful deed commit in another land somehow do not count and can flow from the mindset and common among some american and that other country do not deserve equal status with our own . the what happen in bratislava and stay in bratislava view of the world be at the heart of the horror here and and to it credit and the film show this to be a weltanschauung share by rogue from a number of nation . today and with our leader support the spread of freedom and democracy throughout the world and the hedonistic abuse represent by sex tourism be downright un american . paxton doesn not care about anything except make memory to sustain him through the upcoming busy month of cram for the bar exam . perhaps the global perception that such selfish attitude be especially emblematic of american be why and in hostel and the disturbed torturer pay more to vivisect bearer of our passport than any other group on the albeit limit menu . when the boy finally enter the hostel midway through the film and a small tv in the lobby be show an overdubbed version of hostel producer tarantino pulp fiction . the claustrophobic tension in that film add excruciate horror to the anticipated violence . in hostel and much of the violence be so non sequitur that you never quite believe in these silly butcher or their patient cadre of chauffeur . the upshot be much less horror and more disgust and and one can only hope and no arousal . when a victim do cry out why . he might be speak for the audience represent why make this movie . and when the pay a you torture psychos pause to bare their soul to bind and bleed victim and these scene visit real torture upon moviegoer in the painful form of pathetic acting and pitiful dialog . here and sadist have cede their place to wealthy psychopath and especially german speak men and who pay to get their medieval freak on and that be and if one can get medieval and by definition and with a chainsaw or acetylene torch . during an uninspired escape attempt sequence and paxton be corner by an american businessman ( rick hoffman ) and whose year of global sex tourism have leave him unsatisfied and obviously insane . he be now ready to graduate to torture and murder for his sexual gratification . perhaps there be an audience of american willing to exchange their ignorance of europe for the misshapen image that risk become the pop culture residue of this movie represent a sybaris for bored backpacker and where woman resemble lingerie model and preschooler gang bang mercilessly and and where the occasional ex nazi still hobble about his same unspeakable errand and more circumspect in his depravity than forty odd year ago . to judge by hostel and there be certainly a surfeit of silicone in slovakia . we be show plenty of gratuitous female nudity and but only between round of bloodletting represent tarantino carefully segregate titillation from torture . dress in the anonymous business suit and tie prefer by the weekend torturer and paxton attempt to practice a bit of old testament law and before return to civilization secure in the knowledge that he can out herod herod . throughout this film josh never quite appreciate the joke while while pax never find the peace that come from exorcise one own demon he just cut his vacation short and so to speak . in the final credit and thanks be give to and among others and chloe and major league baseball . these entity deserve harsh censure if they pay for product placement . one star and hack to bit .