Moviguy

This movie had some potential in the script, and the actors had moments where they shined through, but for the most part this movie was a muddled mess.

The plot to this film seems like it was originally intended for teenage girls. If that had been the case, and the nudity and rather boring sex scenes had been excised I could understand a market for this type of film. Maybe if the plot had been sexed up a little, with more emphasis on the sexual politics and seduction I could understand it being a late night movie, but in the end the movie is a mess. It seems like soft core porn for middle school girls who enjoy staring at fake breasts.

The movie is rather dull, the story doesn't really kick in till the final five minutes, the direction is flat, and most of the actors seem like they are about to break out laughing during the scenes. The Poison Ivy series was never stellar film making, but at least the films knew their audience. This one is a confused, muddled mess that never decides if it wants to be a slightly dirty version of Mean Girls or a late night cable flick.

Skip it.

This film was a wreck. The visual style was off. The traps were dull and boring, and the script was so all over the place that I could never get a good grasp on the story. It didn't help that all the actors looked bored out of their skulls.

Really, the script is the biggest problem with this film. Usually the Saw films have several plot lines that all connect in the end. This film does not. Well, it kind of does in that character A arrives at a location and interacts with character B and something is kind of explained or resolved, but the traps have nothing to do with the main plot. At least I couldn't connect them. It tries to pack so much into this one film, that the part where the people have to escape the trap is nearly impossible to watch. The traps are lame, the characters vanish from the story to quickly for their dilemma to have any real impact, and whatever happens to the people stuck in the traps has nothing to do with the main storyline.

This is the first time I have ever really felt that a Saw movie was made on the quick and cheap. The look is bland and the script seems like a rough draft of a screenplay, not a shooting draft. This is as bare bones as the story could get.

If I had to rate all the films in order I would say:

Saw III Saw II Saw IV Saw Saw V

This really doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth for part six. Fingers crossed though.