thue-45218 This was a great movie if your not a couch person.

Spikeopath After their bus crashes while touring in Brazil, a group of young adults find themselves in a world of misery...Not ever likely to be watched by members of the Brazilian Tourist Board, Turistas (AKA: Paradise Lost) is a whole mixed bag of a movie. Narratively it has been done before, a bunch of pretty types end up coming face to face with criminals and psychopaths in a land they don't know and barely understand.The build up to the horror elements is slow, and for some horror fans it takes too long. Yet conversely it's good that the makers have afforded time for the characterisations to build, allowing for some humour, some drama and an insight into a multi national group dynamic. You may not much care what happens to them, but at least you know them!Actually filmed on location in Brazil, there's a lot of mother nature's natural beauty (and her tough terrain at times) on show, all neatly photographed by Enrique Chediak (28 Weeks Later/127 Hours). However, the trump card is the underwater sequences, which are superbly put together, including a thrilling extended chase sequence that lifts the film out of horror/thriller averageville.There's messages in the mix that valiantly try to make a point, but they get lost as things go a bit cuckoo. Yet there's enough good craft on show, and a horror sequence guaranteed to make you squirm, to make this worth a viewing. It is a good bit better than what some of the hate poured on it suggests, though the caveat is that horror fans should know it only gets into horror territory late in the day. 6/10

SnoopyStyle Alex (Josh Duhamel), his sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) and her friend Amy (Beau Garrett) are traveling in Brazil. Their bus goes off the road stranding everybody. They and Englishmen Finn (Desmond Askew) and Liam (Max Brown), and Australian Pru (Melissa George) who speaks fluent Portuguese decide to go to the beach and find two more tourists at the bar. They are drugged and robbed. The two other tourists are kidnapped and killed during an attempted escape. The six new friends get help from Kiko who takes them to an isolated cabin. They are taken prisoner by Dr. Zamora who intends to harvest the rich gringos' organs for the poor of Rio de Janeiro.The first half is pretty good. I would have simplified it by making all characters friends. It would make them more emotionally connected to each other. It would also make the final three less obvious. The first half has the tension of traveling in a foreign land. The chaos in the village is pretty good. The organ harvesting is so idiotic. The three girls are more likely to be sex trafficked and everybody is worth more for ransom anyways. It's a silly made up fear that makes little sense. The final chase in the water is too chaotic and hard to decipher. This is no great horror but it's got some B-movie goodness.

seinthomas8 This is my first review here after may be 400 movies i rated. I give this film a go because despite a not so good rating, i always check 3 or 4 reviews, which for THIS movie were balanced between Good with valuable points, and very bad with poor explanations. If you are into credible story, don't even try to see this movie. Despite a pretty good acting , and a interesting main subject, the characters are so dumb i was just face palming every 5 minutes after the first hour. And during this first hour, nothing really happen. This is so long before any action takes place, and this is so predictable, that i was just hoping the main characters will die in awful suffering scenes.I can't understand why people compare this movie to hostel, because despite the fact that there are tourists captured in both, the atmosphere is just TOTALLY different. No thrill, no suspense, no breath taking. Just a wait to see them die ALL for such dumbness.I actually enjoy a lot of genre, from comedy to thriller, horror etc... but this one is just bad in every of them.