Turista sucked it was a huge letdown

[PorchMonkey4Life]

Turista was not scary enough. Not violent enough. Not funny enough. Not
entertaining enough. Not suspenseful enough. It was just a bad horror
film in the same vein as recent flops like Pulse.

The premise was good but they dropped the ball big time.

When the doctor took the organs out the girl was given anesthetic and
sedated. No horrifying screams just dumb turista believing in Kiko too much.

I kept waiting for it to get better and it never did.

I rate this movie as 0.5 stars out of 4.0 stars.

[Nick Macpherson]

PorchMonkey4Life wrote:
> Turista was not scary enough. Not violent enough. Not funny enough. Not
> entertaining enough. Not suspenseful enough. It was just a bad horror
> film in the same vein as recent flops like Pulse.
>
> The premise was good but they dropped the ball big time.
>
> When the doctor took the organs out the girl was given anesthetic and
> sedated. No horrifying screams just dumb turista believing in Kiko too much.
>

One unintentional bit of unupmanship though--Babel has a random bullet
going through the window of a bus full of stupid tourists. In Turista,
the bus full of stupid tourists goes off a cliff. Since Kiko was the
movie's Borat character, I guess the formula here is Borat + Babel
=Turistas.

[RichA]

How come in the Third World you hear about massive bus crashes every
single day almost?
Are all the drivers perpetually drunk in those s--- hole countries?

[Dave Head]

They just take a lotta chances, and _everybody_ rides buses 'cuz they can't
afford cars. So, there's a lotta opportunity for shit to happen.

DPH

[Al Smith]

>>One unintentional bit of unupmanship though--Babel has a random bullet
>>> going through the window of a bus full of stupid tourists. In Turista,
>>> the bus full of stupid tourists goes off a cliff. Since Kiko was the
>>> movie's Borat character, I guess the formula here is Borat + Babel
>>> =Turistas.
>
>
> How come in the Third World you hear about massive bus crashes every
> single day almost?
> Are all the drivers perpetually drunk in those s--- hole countries?
>

Too many people, not enough money. The buses are always
overcrowded, the roads are poor, the buses are badly maintained,
the drivers have to drive longer hours than are safe. You figure
it out.

[RichA]

I figure a country that can't pay for the people it has should look
into forced sterilization.

[moviePig]

TURISTAS wasn't as bad as the derisive comments (that I couldn't avoid)
had led me to expect. Yeah, the resolution was inexcusably corny, and
the preceding chase scene was undecipherably dim... but, as an
adventure tale with gristle, the movie was okay. In particular, that
opening bus scene was pretty cool, imo... inasmuch as it at least had
me identifying with freaking-out guy. (Been there, been that...)
Anyhow, marketing the movie as HOSTEL-style horror was misleading, and
may have kept it from (slightly) more favorable viewer-response.

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[Nick Macpherson]

With an opening that echoes the black-humored silliness of a young De
Palma and a climax that Spielberg could have done better (and shot with
more light) in an Indiana Jones movie and all that dead weight in
between (Kiko, the year's most annoying character, next to Poseidon's
Lucky Larry the gambler) my guess is that Turistas as originally
envisioned isn't the film that ended up on screen. It got hostel-ized
and saw-ified somewhere along the line, when it looks more like
something in The Most Dangerous Game sub-genre.

[PorchMonkey4Life]

I was all set to like Turistas based on how it was marketed. But the
movie missed opportunity after opportunity to make it a good/decent
horror film. It started well enough but never attempted to generate any
suspense or fright shortly thereafter. I didn't have to look away from
the screen one.

[Garondo Marondo]

Johnny Drama annoying? Bah to you I say, BAH.

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Garondo Marondo!