What is wrong with this writer?

Rating: 1/10 (24 April 2007)

Why this is a bad movie in 4 easy steps: 1. The plot holes. There are so many of these that it ends up making the entire movie pointless. I wont go into all of them because they are covered in many other reviews, but I will never understand how Jigsaw (even with the help of his new student) can obtain all this torture equipment, medical supplies, & dead pigs without arousing suspicion (or at least going broke). And there is now way that he, in his sickly state, or his student could have installed it all, so they must have gotten outside help. You'd think somebody would ask "So, uh.... why do you need this furnace installed in the middle of the room right next to the GIANT food grinder?" 2. The pathetic attempt to explain plot holes of the previous movies. More specifically, the gigantic plot hole in the first SAW when we found out that the guy in the middle of the room who we thought was dead for the entire movie was really the mastermind. So how did he lie perfectly still for 2 hours and why didn't anybody notice him breathing? Well, according to SAW III, he injected himself with some sort of heart-rate-slower right before hand... that really makes a ton of sense.
3. The laughable gore. I guess the extreme violence is supposed to be shocking and scary, but the nude woman getting her ribs ripped off her body looks so fake that it just makes me embarrassed for the person who designed it. Apparently this movie takes place in a universe where the only things that occupy the inside of a human body are miles of small-intestine and gallons upon gallons of blood that looks more like watered down ketchup.
4. The simple plot and one-dimensional characters that are impossible to care about. Between the poor acting, the storyline which is secondary to the gore, the plot holes, and the pointless flashbacks, I really have no idea how to begin caring about any character in this film. The main characters seem only driven by the fact that their son is dead and that they don't want to die. The father is so vengeful that he just seems like an abusive parent anyway.
It escapes me how anyone could like this movie. It is bad even for a Hollywood-horror flick, which is a notoriously bad genre to begin with.