Ultimately, the best approach to Turistas is to do what these tourists should have done: just stay home.
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12/01/06
Turistas (2006)
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Reviews Counted:98
Fresh:15
Rotten:83
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Beautiful scenery and cinematography can't save Turistas from its wooden acting and stale and predictable plot.
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... [More]
Starring: Melissa George, Josh Duhamel, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew
Director: John Stockwell
Reviews for Turistas
It gallops along with a suspenseful, dead-on sense of dread.
12/01/06
This one is just too obvious, almost from the title.
12/01/06
This is Fox's first release under its new youth label, 'Fox Atomic' -- and it makes me fear not for the children, but for what Fox executives think the children want to see.
12/01/06
Turistas doesn't have much going for it beyond its xenophobic subtext about trusting young Americans and crude and crafty foreigners. The action scenes are so dark as to be unfathomable. The characters are so alike as to be indistinguishable.
12/01/06
Turistas has mastered the international language: stupidity.
12/01/06
Folks might find a bit of post-Iraq angst insinuated into the script, but any hint of social initiative in a movie this formulaic would be strictly coincidental.
12/01/06
More dull than a gory, scary film ought to be.
12/01/06
Although quite pleasing to look at for a while -- lush jungles, gorgeous water features, bare young flesh all over the place -- the film is spiritually misshapen from the get-go.
12/01/06
With the success of Hostel and the Saw movies, another wave of cinematic nausea is upon us. Turistas tries to ride that wave all the way to the bank, but it’s too timid and perfunctory to get very far.
12/01/06
The story is idiotic, the dialogue moronic and the characters are cardboard cutouts. Stupid cardboard cutouts.
12/01/06
Consider it a modern spin on Deliverance, with no squealing like a pig -- just squeals of frightful excitement.
12/01/06
Unpleasant but never really suspenseful, the new teen torture thriller Turistas causes only a dull, predictable pain.
12/01/06
This organ-theft thriller overpromises and underdelivers, falling prey to the typical perils of the genre: few moments of true suspense and laboriously telegraphed plotting.
12/01/06
The cinema of sadism smartens up in Turistas, a violent drama that has all the don't-go-there nastiness of B-movies like Hostel and Wolf Creek with a whole lot less of that guilty aftertaste.
12/01/06
All the blood and nudity mark Turistas as an exploitation film, of the horror-thriller variety -- but who knew exploitation could be so boring?
12/01/06
With Turistas, [director John Stockwell] is stuck with a silly plot and characters that make you sometimes wish the movie were a cheap slasher picture after all.
12/01/06
It's only a few weeks before Christmas, and do you know what that means?... it means horror movies about human organ trafficking.
12/01/06
I can just picture Stockwell sitting there with a potential actress, telling her "skip the line reading and just scream and show me how anguished you can look".
12/01/06
... neither suspenseful, terrifying or inventively gory.
12/01/06
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