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I saw this last night. I smoked 3 bowls and a joint before it, so I was pretty high, and I expected to **** my pants from fright. In fact, there was only one actual scare in the movie. By scare, I mean a part that made you jump. The only scare was a girl turning really fast, and you think she's going to turn and see something scary, but it turns out to just be an unmenacing black guy.

For 1 hour and 30 minutes, the movie showed you people dying or being tortured in unspeakably gory ways. I won't go into detail because I'm sure fans of these movies enjoy it, but I did not. Violence in movies like Sin City is cool to me, even A History of Violence, despite being not great, had some cool violent parts. But this movie was just over the top.

As far as plot goes, there really wasn't much of one. If you consider the standard Exposition-Rising Action-Climax-Falling Action-Resolution structure of a story, this lacked that. There was an exposition, then there was the climax, and then there was the resolution. Now I understand that a lot of films don't have Falling Action (or denouement, if you want to get french), but there is no excuse for the poor quality of this plot. The jist is that a bunch of people are in a house and have to solve the puzzle to get out, but that's about it. They arrive in the house, they die (not necessarily all, I don't want to give it away), and that's it.

As far as character development goes, there definitely was none. We learn the reason the people have been put in the house, and that's it. A lot of them die too fast to even really know anything about them, and there are enough characters that we don't really have time to know anything about them in an hour and a half. The fact that most of them acted very unrealistically didn't help the film either.

Saw 2 was almost saved by a really sick ending, with multiple plot twists happening in a span of 15 minutes. Not exactly mind blowing, but definitely pretty cool. Unfortunately, it wasn't worth watching an hour and fifteen minutes of veritable trash to see the ending.

Acting was atrocious. I won't even go into detail it was so unspeakably bad.

The dialogue was awful too, even by Hollywood standards.

In conclusion, if you want to see a ton of gore, then you'll like this movie, but you're also a very ****ed up individual if you can enjoy it. I didn't turn away, but I considered it many times. If you want to see a quality film, then look elsewhere.