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This movie features two positive qualities. First, it brings needed attention to the horrors of organized crime and their activities against humanity in other countries. Second, it has a cool cover. Sadly, these seem to be the best qualities.
The first hour of the movie is yet another regeneration of "Animal House," or some other forgettable "fraternity" comedy. The characters are clichéd and follow the same formula as most movies: the wild one, the not-so-wild one, and the conservative one. As with all of these movies, somehow they seek a way to further their life experience through sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll. Very Woodstock, but such "experience" is useless in real life. Mother and father foot-the-bill in these comedies and unless you have lived a life such as this, you will not relate.
There are two Americans, played by Jay Hernandez and Derek Richardson. They are traveling with an Icelander throughout Europe at the start. The summarized plot on the back of the DVD box doesn't actually start until well into the movie. They are coming back from yet another club and find they have passed the curfew. Unable to go back into their hostel, a local guy invites them into his home for the night.
They are shown pictures on a cell phone screen and told of a little-known town where the women are easy and the mind-altering substances roam like cattle. Or vice versa. It's difficult to believe that such experienced travelers would be so naïve as to simply go where a stranger instructs them. It is difficult to be sympathetic for the characters when bad things do start occurring.
They follow their overactive hormones to the tiny town and make living arrangements with the hostel there. The two Americans just happen to share a room with two female residents at the hostel. You'll probably already assume these characters have a difficult time with maintaining their clothing. You're precisely correct.
They do their thing until the Icelander goes missing. They become a little suspicious, however can't overcome their desire to party so they stay another night, just to tempt fate. The first American goes missing and then it finally becomes suspicious to last American standing. Give the man a hand.
He begins running around trying to find answers. The local law authority is of little help. The remaining American finally finds where his friends were taken. Since he is there, he is also bound and placed in a little room.
Eventually, he escapes, but his resourcefulness is overshadowed by his previous ignorance and the fact that if they had just listened to locals who warned them, they would be fine.
