Not as good as most think it is

Rating: 5/10 (3 February 2006)

This is not a "don't bother to see" movie, but it seems to me vastly over-rated by most commenter's. I did not think of Seven while watching this because it is not in the same class. From many years of watching horror/slasher movies, I don't expect logic from them and you do not get it here. Even given that it is hard to predict how one would react in the situation Lawrence and Adam find themselves, it strains credulity that, handed a hack saw you would start trying to saw through those very thick chains (in spite of their thickness they don't seem to be very heavy) when the shackle around their ankles or the rusty pipes to which the chains are attached look more vulnerable. Poor Danny Glover is stuck with playing one of the dumbest characters in the genre. The scene where he and his partner track the killer to his lair is laughable and seems to have been staged by the killer on the assumption that they would come and not bring any backup. And when he comes in in that ridiculous hooded cape I could not stop laughing. Movies which feature "killers" with infinite technology at their disposal (is Shawnee's "gag" available on the Internet?) are a cop-out. If Zep was told he had a slow-acting poison in his system (that would take at least 8 hours to work) wouldn't you go to the hospital? It is next to impossible to sort out the time frame: when was the picture of Zep looking out the Doctor's bedroom window, which was in Adam's bag with the saws, taken and by who? I will give them that the situations created by the killer are disturbing but have the filmmakers ever been in a bathroom in a factory? I have and I have never seen one that size with just one toilet and no urinals, not to mention a bathtub. And why would it be placed in such an inaccessible location? Maybe the killer built it himself, he seems to be able to do as he pleases. Out of room.