Good Story, Bad Acting

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2008)

The plot of this movie was genius; the twists and story of the whole film was exciting, surprising, and just plain cool! The whole blood-and-guts element in the movie made it even scarier, in a good way. In short, I loved the whole idea. Key word: idea. Let's just say, the acting is a whole different story.
First of all, Donnie Wahlberg isn't a very good actor to begin with, but he didn't affect the movie too much. However, Glenn Plummer, who played Jonas, did affect the movie to a point where I almost wanted to leave the theater. He was absolutely awful. Just terrible. I could take one look at the script and do it better by memory! But I must say, Shawnee Smith as Amanda was pretty good, as was Tobin Bell as Jigsaw. I was a little disappointed that Erik Knudsen and Beverly Mitchell didn't give very memorable performances, and that Franky G man as Xavier was a little too scary for me. The rest of the performances were pretty good, especially the bickering between many of the characters.
Over all, I liked the concept of the movie, and it would have been brilliant if the acting was better.