Turistas (2006)

You won't be disappointed!

Simply A Masterpiece

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I've enjoyed this movie for a long time. I saw it years ago and thought it has some terrifying suspense and gore, as well as, adventure. Definitely a buyer. I have watched it time & time again through the years and I still enjoy watching it!!!!

After a bus crashes in a rural area of Brazil, a group of tourists try to find their way back to their motel. The problem is, one of them throws a rock at a little boy to get his attention, and accidentally hits him, causing an uproar from the other neighbors.A random guy, Kiko, grabs a machete and leads the tourists through the thick jungles towards what he says is a house, and on the way the group ends up near a waterfall and underwater caves. While jumping down the waterfall, Kiko whacks his head on something and the group goes to the house, which isn't abandoned but has no electricity, and is very strange looking. There are surveillance cameras, dogs locked up in cages, bottles of medicine and canned food, and beds. They go to sleep, planning to get away in the morning.In the middle of the night they hear a helicopter, and a group of doctors randomly show up, locking up the tourists but keeping one of the men and women with them. The woman has her liver and kidneys removed and the man watches, but is rescued by the other tourists after they escape. Will they get away alive, or will they be caught and dragged back? This film has a number of unrealistic scenarios, and is more comedic than scary. It was like a bad version of Hostle, and uses the whole "oh my god, foreigners are scary!" plot. What could be worse than being cut open and having your internal organs removed while you're still alive? Well, the woman in this film having her organs removed is awake while it happens, she doesn't scream or cry or anything, nor does the man watching the whole thing. It looks disturbing enough, but the actors don't portray it as such. In fact, the entire cast was full of terrible actors, and as usual in these kinds of movies, the woman who gets away is a brunette wearing a tank top. For once they could make it somewhat different.The soundtrack was boring, the plot was boring, the acting was boring... just one incredibly boring movie.

I thought it was pretty good actually, despite the low rating. From the start it had me on the edge of my seat. About something that could actually happen. I believe that this could be very possible given the circumstances in different countries. It starts out with a group of friends from the United States, traveling to a different country. that country happens to be Brazil. They are traveling by bus but their bus has a mishap. Everyone on the bus almost dies because the bus almost goes over a cliff. Everyone on the bus survives, in- clouding the main characters, but the bus is not okay. The travelers visit the nearest beach and find shelter there. The guys want to stay but the girls don't. It gets intense as the story goes on. I recommend it.

Alex and his sister Bea, and her friend Amy meet other travellers and become friends after an accident with their bus. They follow a track through the woods and find a hidden paradise. They decide to stay in the place drinking with the locals and they meet Brazilian teenager Kiko. They are drugged and when they wake up, they are practically naked, with all their belongings, clothes, money, jewels, passports, backpacks stolen. They walk to a small village trying to find a police station, they get into trouble with the dwellers and they are helped by their acquaintance Kiko, who leads them to his uncle's isolated well-equipped cabin in the woods to wait for the next bus two days later. At night, Kiko's "uncle" arrives with his friends and the group discloses the sinister intentions of the newcomers.....Released at the same time as Hostel, and during the reign of 'Saw', this is one of those movies that got ignored by the public, due to bad press and the act that most people thought it would be another torture porn movie.There are violent scenes, but its so much more than a torture porn movie. For a start, the characters really are believable, and you do care for one or two of them, and also a few grate on you.Desmond Askew is particular irritating, especially if you are from his side of the world. He is a typical cockney wide boy, and it irks me to think that film makers as still typecasting us Brits as this awful parody.It loss a few points for this, but otherwise, it's a solid movie, with really beautiful locations, and a swimming scene hat is pure Oceana to the eyes.Ignore the fax that it's classed as torture porn and enjoy it for what it is, a film about the dangers of travelling and straying off the path.