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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: More dull than a gory, scary film ought to be. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Wow. I'm scared. I'll never open another desk drawer as long as I live. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: As usual, there's a streak of murderous puritanism in the carnage. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Once the gore and suspense take over, this becomes mechanical and unpleasant. Read more
Mark Rahner, Seattle Times: While comparisons to Hostel are inevitable Turistas rarely achieves its level of sustained menace and discomfort. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: It's fitting that, in a season in which Hollywood offers up its prestige pictures -- the ones it hopes will garner critics' prizes and Academy Awards -- Turistas should come along to offer a bit of contrast. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is just a predictable slice of slasher porn set in an exotic locale. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Give Turistas, the edgy, unnerving, graphically violent South American vacation movie full of sex-hungry young adults and horror, credit for knowing full well not only what kind of entertainment it is, but for delivering the goods. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Touted as the first American production to be shot entirely in Brazil, Turistas may well be the last, if the country cares at all about its image. Read more
Kathy Cano Murillo, Arizona Republic: If you appreciate a decent thriller with equal parts bloodshed and adventure, you'll do fine with Turistas -- as long as you don't wander off. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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. Read more
Dennis Lim, Los Angeles Times: A wholly predictable bit of slasher unpleasantness and a muddled cautionary tale on the American propensity for foreign misadventures. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Consider it a modern spin on Deliverance, with no squealing like a pig -- just squeals of frightful excitement. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Would you believe it if I said that the fearsome homicidal baddie in Turistas is the most humane and morally responsible person in the movie? Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: 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. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Turistas doesn't want to save the world, but gross you out and give you nightmares. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: 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. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: 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. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: This one is just too obvious, almost from the title. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Turistas starts out as an effective little horror movie before devolving into an incoherent mess during its final 30 minutes. Read more
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times: [Director] Stockwell delivers too little of the dread and titillation this genre prescribes. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Unpleasant but never really suspenseful, the new teen torture thriller Turistas causes only a dull, predictable pain. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Turistas is a passport to a different kind of vacation hell. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: More icky than scary, with a rather obnoxious Ugly American as lead protagonist. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Though Turistas eventually bogs down in an underlit mess, it more or less scratches the neo-exploitation itch. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Horror fans will twitch impatiently at those long stretches between killings. And audiences anticipating a feature-length Girls Gone Wild video will suffer withdrawal from the lack of loosened bra straps. Read more