Turistas Review
As a group of travellers go through the Brazillian country in a ricketty bus at all-too fast a speed, you watch as the over-protective brother, sister, her slutty friend and a couple of English idiots survive a bus accident. Rather than deciding to wait for the next bus, the group decide to wander down to the nearby beach and find a club there serving drinks! They swim, drink, are drugged then robbed.
They wander through the jungle, somehow finding the town where all those who robbed them live. Eventually, they find Kiko, a resident they had made friends with the night before and he leads them out of the town towards his “Uncle’s House”. We then see the baddie doctor, who mentions Kiko and that’s when you get the idea something isn’t right…
The group are taken through the jungle by Kiko, covered in insects and all that good stuff, until they walk into a clearing where there’s a beautiful waterfall. Kiko dives from the top and they all go swimming, before Kiko decides to take them swimming through underwater caves and as they reach the end cave, they emerge into a beautiful covered water pool. It is here where Kiko decides he actually likes these people and says “Maybe we should go back to the town”… The stupid traveller’s of course don’t want to go back to the town, they’d rather march on towards Kiko’s “uncle” and their death…
One of the English traveller’s wants to learn how to dive off the waterfall like Kiko did previously and invites Kiko to show him again, Kiko jumps into the water and cracks his head on a rock. Somehow the traveller’s walk straight to his “uncle’s” house (how did they know how to get there?) and staple his head shut and Kiko walks in a daze, before laying down on a bed. The traveller’s wander around the house, noticing belongings from “every nationality on earth” including passports, but for some reason are not worried by this… Then baddie doctor arrives. His “thing” is stealing organs from the rich traveller and giving them to poor Brazil’s public hospitals…
The only gory scene (in a film that was marketed as a very gory movie) is when a girl is opened up by the baddie doctor and had her liver and such removed while under just minor sedation.
The movie then turns silly, as we see the traveller’s attempt to escape from a cage, in the rain and at night. Eventually a couple of them die during the escape but three do make it back to the waterfall. Kiko gets killed somewhere along the way and then in a stupidly long scene where you can’t tell who’s who and you stop really caring, you see arms and legs flapping about in darkness as they attempt to escape. The real problem is that you know they are trying to escape, but who from? It’s not possible to follow this scene and it just seems absolutely stupid - and waaaay too long.
In the end, baddie and over-protective brother face each other while brother tries to protect sister and his prospective new girlfriend. The baddie has a gun, but guess who wins?
The ending of this movie, sucks… After that long drawn out underwater sequence, it just ends and you think “huh?”… Not a good ending. Great first half to the movie and it sets up the story well, but the rest of the story is waaaay too short (except the water bits).
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