While Hostel 1&2 had gritty scenery and lots of atmosphere, Part 3 looked polished and never hit "believability" status for me. Sure, Sin City seems like a great place to pick up the story, but trying to top earlier (better) storylines and cameos of Takashi Miike and Edwige Fenech is tough. So, rather than using the madness of the city and all the wicked things that lie beneath it to their advantage, we're left with something equivalent (snooze factor-wise) to one of the later Final Destination movies, excluding #5, which is pretty bad ass.
There were a few twists which I hoped would play out to be worth while, but they ended up adding nothing, and along with the shitty CGI, extremely lame kills, and the stupid ass ending, I felt like I had treated my dishes unjustly by watching this over washing them.
The premise is pretty simple: Before he ties the knot, Scott and his buddies have one last night out on the town, but things don't go as planned. (Do they ever?) People come up missing, then end up dead, and the game of survival is on.
There were also some monotonous things, as if they were just added to expand the running time, like too many shots of doors being opened by tattoo recognition (Elite Hunting Club tats of course). I was like, Dude, we got it the first time, so let's move on! And, there were way too many ass shots. Did I really say that? Yeah, I did, and while I enjoy a nice derriere as much as the next man (or woman), they can get old. It's like they knew the story sucked, so they'd just pan down the booty cam in hopes of distracting us, so much that it could have been called Hostel 3: The Elite Ass Hunting Club, or just Hostel Asses. Hey, make sure I get credit when the porn parody comes out.
I just felt that this was a very unnecessary entry in the franchise, and even though Scott Spiegel (Intruder, From Dusk Till Dawn 2) directed it, it should've been left alone. Trust me, not every movie with a sequel needs to become a trilogy, it’s okay to only have two.
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