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• More Blood! More Gore! Why? Who Cares?

[Roth] also changes things up a bit. Last time the victims were male. This time Roth follows a trio of young women: the wonderful Heather Matarazzo playing "the dorky one," Bijou Phillips playing "the slutty one" and Lauren German playing "the level-headed one." Last time, the villains embodied Old World evil. This time we spend time with two of the predators, who turn out to be smiling, golf-playing American suburbanites. The problem is that the Hostel movies care only about power. For Roth, the only question is who's holding the knife. Why they're holding the knife doesn't much interest him. (His attempt to "explain" the motivations of the all-American torture kings never rises above the cheapest kind of pop psychology.) For all Roth's bad-boy posturing -- and he really tests the limi...

... torture ring" a bigger operation than EuroDisney.). Roth starts things off with the rapid dispatch ...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 19, 2009