There's a point where a movie just gets TOO gruesome

Rating: 3/10 (12 October 2005)

I waited for 'Saw' to hit the shelves, and I decided to rent it. I really don't like too many of Lion's Gate Films' movies, besides 'Punisher,' so my expectations were rather low for this movie. They had washed up actor Cary Elwes star in the film as the helpless victim, and Danny Glover as a detective, of course. Is there a movie Danny Glover is in that doesn't have him in a role in the crime stopping scene? There is more than a few things I really didn't like about this movie. For one, the acting was pretty rundown, dull, and generic horror movie screaming and panicking. Also, the gross violence this movie contains. This is just violent for the sake of being violent, and they think it adds to the "thrills," but it just makes you wanna be sick. The only thing that scared me in the movie was the clown/dummy thing, which always rode around on a tricycle. A good scary movie needs to have me scared after the movie, and this movie really didn't do that for me. If you are looking for a scary Halloween movie, this movie is not scary, it's just really violent and gross. I definitely don't recommend this to the horror movie person, or anyone for that matter.