What makes it different from others?

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Heading off for a bachelor party, a group of friends decide to leave their Las Vegas party for another gathering hosted by some friends only to learn that they've stumbled upon a group of torturers using the strip as their hunting grounds and must fight them off to get away alive.This here was an enjoyable enough entry in the series. One of the more enjoyable parts to this one is the more enhanced and believable outcome of the society featured here that's quite thrilling. There's some nice work here detailing how they come about getting involved with the club as the opening party makes for a solid grouping of depravity and sleaze that works well in tying this into the rest of the series, and features a great way to bring about their eventual kidnapping and delivery into the system. That in itself leads to the film's greatest aspect in how this ties the torture system into the current location by showcasing the torture room as an attraction to gamble on for the patrons observing everything happening on a stage, and that fits into the location so well that it really adds nicely to the film by making these torture scenes much more engaging than they should be. As that also leads into the main part of the film which is the torture scenes in front of the patrons, that leaves this one with some pretty chilling scenes here with the facial and the insect swarm featuring some rather enjoyable elements. The finale, with its charge into their underground society which presents not only more brutality but a few rather ingenious twists thrown in as well which makes for a rather rousing and much more enjoyable outing than expected. There are a few problems here, mainly in the fact that like the rest of the films in the series its first half is dominated by the scenes outside the compound as it falls into endless scenes of them wandering around Vegas trying to find the missing people that it really doesn't even get to their society until the final half hour so the pacing to this is really off. Likewise, there's the fact that this one tends to throw itself into twists rather for the sake of ensuring a rather surprising aspect to this one, and it's piling on here simply for that reason. None of the real twists here are built upon doing this for any real reason other than this factor, and it's quite infuriating to get thrown another twist about what's happening simply for the manner of just getting that twist. Alongside some rather dodgy kills that look silly in execution, these here are what really hold this one down.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity and drug use.

Ukrainian couple Victor and Anka are taken prisoners by the Elite Hunting Club. Scott is having his bachelor party leaving his fiancée Amy behind. Instead of going golfing, Carter takes him to Vegas where they meet up with Mike and Justin. Kendra and Nikki invites them to something a little freaky. After a night of partying, Mike is taken. The other guys try to find him and encounter Kendra who is also looking for missing Nikki.It won't matter to fans whether this is good or not. The defacing is a good way to start but the bugs are kind of stupid. In general, I have a problem with moving the franchise to Vegas. Part of the appeal is clueless first world people going to third world backwaters where they get torn apart. This doesn't have that. The kills aren't as good as before. The gladiatorial combat also takes away from the message of the franchise where money can buy anything.

While the second movie did have a real tie in to the first (which as I have previously said, did not work out), this does not take any cues from it's predecessors. Which is a good thing and makes it slightly better for having a sort of spin off approach to it. There are false expectations and a lot of red herrings, some might annoy you, because you might see them coming a long time before they arrive, but overall, this achieves what it set out to do.While not as great as part 1, it does achieve something that part 2 never had: A connection (even if it's a small one) with our main characters. Too many twists get that a bit out of control, but overall this is worth a watch, with a different director this time around to ensure a different result/approach

Hopefully the last in the trilogy, this one taking place in a different hostel. Again we have more hot chicks (one Russian with big you know... a knockout) and a few impressive twists, the opening one is a killer, literally, but still this one falls below par. Also it's not as gory as the other two. This hostel, sees a different change of setting, located in, would you believe, Vegas, which again sees unwilling innocents, drugged and kidnapped, this time taken out to this private casino out in the desert, where rich business guys get richer, gambling at the expense of the victim, a different concept of story I liked. A bachelor and his mates, (Kip Pardue, the only known actor in this, playing his best mate) go to Vegas, where they finally wind up at this private affair. One victim has to his face peeled off with a scalpel, a prostitute is fed these cockroaches of death. There re a couple of the inventive murders, but despite the good assets I've just mentioned, it still comes off as a just a cheesy straight to video affair. At least this ends on a more happier note, in another twist surprise. For Hostel fans mainly, this franchise has done it's dash. No more- please.