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Turistas, 2006

Turistas

English, Portuguese

USA

Rating:5.0
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Profile of Turistas

The mood of Turistas is scary, rough, and suspenseful. The plot centers around isolation, survival, and escapades. It is a horror and thriller movie. Stylistically, Turistas is gory. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It takes place, at least partly, on a bus and in a jungle. Turistas is set in Brazil. It happens in contemporary times. It is especially suggested for teens. Note that Turistas includes strong violent content.

Summary of Turistas

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.

Details

Language: English, Portuguese
Country: USA
Release date: 1 December 2006
Runtime: 93 min

Cast and Crew

Melissa George as Pru in Turistas
Melissa George

as Pru

Josh Duhamel as Alex in Turistas
Josh Duhamel

as Alex

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Critics Reviews

TV Guide
The cast is unusually good for this sort of film, which only makes the poor execution more regrettable.
Los Angeles Times
Turistas seeks to exploit the current craze for torture-porn, but it lacks the relentless sadism of the "Saw" franchise. More than half the movie is dull buildup.

Users Reviews

The good news: it isn't torture porn, like it was marketed, which means I don't have to despise it like I do 'Hostel'. However, it also isn't really anything. It isn't horror, not at all. It also isn't suspense (but it almost is!). It also isn't...
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