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Turistas (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 97 Fresh: 15  Rotten:82 Average Rating: 3.7/10
 
Consensus: Beautiful scenery and cinematography can't save Turistas from its wooden acting and stale and predictable plot.
 

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Rated: 18

Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

Theatrical Release: 01-06-2007

Synopsis: A group of international tourists seeking fun and adventure in Brazil get a lot more than they bargained for in the suspenseful horror film TURISTAS. Written by first-time screenwriter Michael Arlen Ross and directed by John Stockwell (BLUE CRUSH), TURISTAS, the first American film to be... A group of international tourists seeking fun and adventure in Brazil get a lot more than they bargained for in the suspenseful horror film TURISTAS. Written by first-time screenwriter Michael Arlen Ross and directed by John Stockwell (BLUE CRUSH), TURISTAS, the first American film to be shot completely in the South American nation, is set in the Brazilian mountains, where Alex (Josh Duhamel); his sister, Bea (Olivia Wilde); and her best friend, Amy (Beau Garrett), are preparing for an eco-tour. But when their bus crashes, they are stranded with a group of locals as well as a handful of other tourists, including Finn (Desmond Askew) and Liam (Max Brown), two Brits looking for fast times and hot women, and Pru (Melissa George), a beautiful Australian traveling on her own who takes an immediate liking to Alex. In the middle of nowhere, they find a little oasis in a surprise sandy bar, where they get to know each other, drinking and dancing until they wake up the next morning, having been drugged and robbed of just about everything, with all remnants of the bar gone. They walk into an unfriendly town, but the only person offering any help at all is Kiko (Agles Steib), who might not exactly be leading them to safety. TURISTAS is a well-paced thriller that features brutal torture, violence, and a terrific, breathless underwater chase through some very cool caves. The film also succeeds as an examination of the fear--warranted or not--that some Americans feel in the international community post-9/11. [More]

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Starring: Melissa George, Josh Duhamel, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett

Director: John Stockwell
Producer: Scott Steindorff, Bo Zenga, Marc Butan
Composer: Paul Haslinger

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Sep 9, 2008

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07/17/07
BBC
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2.5/5

Brazil's tourist industry gets a bad rap in this horror-lite shocker that might just leave you rooting for the bad guy.

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06/12/07
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film
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3/5

This raw and grisly film keeps the tension levels fairly high, even if it is thoroughly predictable.

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11/23/06
Rich Cline
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2.5/5

With a plot Frankensteined from the remains of "Hostel", "The Descent" and "Wolf Creek", "Turistas" was clearly never going to be on anyone's 10 best list.

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05/05/08
Brian Holcomb
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01/15/08
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
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2/4

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07/14/07
Joe Lozito
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1.5/5

contains itself in insufferable artificiality

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03/26/07
Chris Cabin
Filmcritic.com
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It's a film that's more likely to leave you confused and angry than frightened or inspired that something positive is happening in the horror genre.

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03/24/07
Brian Tallerico
UGO
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1/5

Merece ser ignorado por ser péssimo, não por ser uma "visão preconceituosa" do Brasil.

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02/16/07
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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1/6

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02/03/07
Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York
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D

TURISTAS seemed to have a fascinating, cautionary premise,but in execution, the movie turned out to be messy and decidedly unmemorable.

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01/11/07
Ted Murphy
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01/06/07
Dallas Morning News
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2/4

Don't stay home out of fear of imagined atrocities in another country. Stay home from this movie instead.

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01/05/07
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)
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12/30/06
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies
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12/30/06
Jonathan W. Hickman
Entertainment Insiders
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2/5

...brutally effective -- with an accent on the "brute."

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12/10/06
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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2/4

As conflicted as the U.S. psyche: The movie locates the ghastly fates of its victims in the history of American arrogance, yet tells us to never trust a foreigner, even when she's in a bikini.

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12/08/06
John Beifuss
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
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2/4

Don't bother to buy popcorn, the sight of Josh Duhamel's abs and Melissa George's breasts should tide you over until Beau Garrett's pancreas and kidneys show up.

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12/07/06
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
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If the filmmakers were trying to scare American kids into cultural isolationism, this would be a pretty good piece of propaganda for the cause.

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12/06/06
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
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This is strictly 'Teenagers as Meat on the Hoof 101' stuff -- only more idiotic than usual.

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12/06/06
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
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