Boring rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (9 April 2013)

Compared to films from the SAW franchise this wasn't really gory; many reviewers feel the need to state that they don't understand how this didn't get an NC-17 rating but I don't understand why it should have.
As far as it being boring well, it really was. I cannot recall the last time I watched a movie and found myself looking at the time and wondering when something was actually going to happen. A good third of the run time was dedicated to plotting and character development yet there really wasn't either of the two things going on. OK, fine, all the characters hate David and Mia is a heroin junkie and the other people are just there. Sure we get a mention that Eric teaches high school, Olivia is a RN, and Natalie's sole existence in life is to be David's woman but that is it. There's nothing else for over thirty minutes and I summed it up in two sentences yet this piece of rubbish takes like 32 minutes to do the same thing? Horror when done in any medium is about ratcheting up the tension until the audience cannot take anything more and then going past it. Yet there was no tension or suspense to be seen in this movie. Some of that was due to the screenwriter's poorly placed idea to say everything that's going to happen with the bloody book five minutes before it happens but most was from the poor script and sub-par direction.
As far as the technical aspect of Evil Dead (2013) the gore was not on par with the original film from 32 years ago. What did you have that was so wonderful? An air nailer that didn't have an air line hooked up to it? I won't mention the fact that it couldn't actually fire a 6" nail with deadly accuracy even if it was hooked up... oh wait, I just did... I digress. You had a scene where someone puked blood which was done before, a limb amputated below the knee on camera which has been done before, an arm getting severed off-screen, and a woman--physically impossibly--ripping her hand off... oh yes, the tongue scene.
So you have 35 minutes of "plot development" followed by about ten minutes of stale gore and 40 minutes of filler. This whole thing was a waste of time for the viewers but if it leads to an actual Sam Raimi written and directed Army of Darkness Part 2 then it'll be worth it. For that reason alone I've given it 3/10 stars.