Review of Turistas (2006) by Darcey P — 07 Dec 2009

Energetic. The film begins with a preview of what's to come, and after that some brazillian song plays (while the opening credits are rolling), and is bright, colourful, basically what you would expect from a teen-comedy that centres on a cruise ship, but after the credits we get to know the characters a little, just by viewing them on a speeding bus. When the bus crashes, we get to know each character better, and they themselves seem like the typical tourists just looking for a good time. The film takes a long while finally getting into the black market side, even though it sometimes switched between the head surgeon and his going-abouts. It did think the downfall was the good hour it took to get into the film, but when it finally did happen, it was predictable, but still criinge-worthy and watchable. The ending was really predictable, anyone could've guessed it a mile away, and some of the death scenes were well worth the wait.

The premise is intriuging, but the plot itself was too absorbed in getting to know the characters, rather than getting into what made the viewer sit and watch the film for. There were no twists, which is refreshing, but it needed one badly, because we knew 5 minutes before what was going to happen.

The acting was definately one of the highlights. The whole cast provides the audiences with brilliants at many scenarios. "Josh Duhamel", who's character was abit of a douche, gave the film the security, while "Melissa George" gave us the mysterious girl next door character.

Overall "Turistas" is a good film, but takes too long to get into the action, and doesn't have any twists, which makes it predictable. My rating is 3/5.