Turistas is the first film from 20th Century Fox’s new “youth-oriented” division Fox Atomic. If Turistas is symptomatic of what they’ll be offering, “youth-oriented” apparently means violent, gory, rated-R torture movies. Well, that’s not really fair. The film takes quite awhile to get to the violence and gore; before that it’s mostly excessive drinking and gratuitously exposed boobs. Hi kids!A group of gorgeous early twenty-somethings is on vacation in Brazil. Their tour bus crashes in the middle of the jungle, leaving them to fend for themselves until someone comes by with another one. Things seem alright though. They discover a beautiful, out of the way beach complete with a rocking bar and a sexually liberated singles scene. After a night of wild partying, they wake up penniless and only partially clothed. They’ve all been drugged and robbed. Things aren’t looking up. Read More…
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