Although having a good trigger point for the mystery, its extremely generic score, kindergarten-level script (with outrageously simple dialogues, foolish characters, and filled with plot holes), and cringy overacting and over romanticism make of this movie simply a bigger budgeted crappy TV movie.
Nice look into the idea of tourists believing themselves to be above the law of the hosting country.
The beating score provides a great feel of impending doom and perversion tight from the start.
Unfortunately, the first act is so good and detailed that makes the rest of the film, and in particular its twists, quite predictable.
Nevertheless, its attractive visuals, either via traditional framing or kaleidoscopic sequences, keeps you quite attentive to what is happening on the screen.
When it does not self indulge on its own cheesiness (via songs or filmmaking choices), this is a very entertaining warm-hearted little film with really good acting and a simple but effective and fun script that manages pretty solidly to mix the world of high-school movies and sci-fi.
This movie simply tries too hard and does not deliver in barely any capacity.
The intended picturesque characters are boring, the action (sometimes subverted by the editing) leaves you cold, and the intended drama and surrealism do not bring anything special to the table.
For a film with a similar premise albeit a different approach, you will be better off watching Aki Kaurismäki’s I Hired a Contract Killer (1990).
It succeeds in setting a creepy atmosphere, and it has an interesting underlying message (such as the common disregard of the older generations).
Nonetheless, it suffers from some relevant miscasting as well as not having a clear focus on what it wants to tell leading up to an absurd ending.
