I have recently seen Salo and must agree that it was not great film but not too bad either. I wonder something though: I have read that the director did not want to make a spectacle, cheap exploitation film but I get the feeling that's what it is, disguised as a serious film. I say this because there are really no main victim characters. They barely establish a relationship between any of them. There goes our sense of hope out the window. Then the evil guys just kill have sex, toy around and do whatever the hell they want. Thats the whole film. And we just watch these perverts have their depraved fun with the youth.

It was an ok film but IMO a more truthful (and more disturbing) social commentary can be seen in KUbrick's
A Clockwork Orange.