Unlike some other reviews, I didn't find this terribly bad. Of course, it wasn't terribly GOOD, either; I think the secret is to just watch this as an independent movie and forget making it part of a "trilogy" because it clearly isn't. It has absolutely no connection to the first two _Hostel_ movies (which were only loosely connected themselves), but as a standalone story/film, it was a good enough film. Some of the kills are a bit more creative while some were based solely on your imagination "filling in the blanks", so to speak. Maybe I'm jaded but my imagination fell short and I felt like the movie would have been better - and far more accepted - had the producers gone to lengths to actually *show* the kill, rather than leaving it to imagination. [spoiler]The scene where Nikki was killed by the bugs (and I'm still not sure what those were supposed to be? They weren't cockroaches but they definitely weren't the flesh-eating scarab beetles seen in _The Mummy_ either.) could have been so much more gruesome, but it fell flat and she died way too quickly, IMO.[/spoiler] The backstory, while necessary, was a bit disjointed and - again, IMO - the film could have and SHOULD have focused a bit more on the "audience". Not nearly enough explanation of the whole gambling scene when it obviously was such an integral part of the story. Overall, it felt quite a bit like the later _Saw_ movies: the producers didn't really spend a lot of time developing the movie, but chose to just throw a plethora of _"How many gruesome ways are there to kill someone?"_ into a blender and produce whatever came out. This is the result of such thinking. If violence and gore for the sake of violence and gore is your cup of tea, you'll probably be okay with this one. If you're looking for an actual storyline, however, this will disappoint. While it was a nice touch, the closing scene was still easily foreseeable but it at least left you with a sense of justice. Again, I didn't think this was a "great" movie, but I didn't find it as terrible as some other reviews. It just had the misfortune of having the same title slapped on it as two earlier movies, so it was expected to follow the same story, which it clearly doesn't.