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I'll be honest - the only reason I got this movie was because I was intrigued by the gruesome concept. So I watched it the other day, and was left feeling dirty, ashamed of myself, bored, and disappointed. There was very little in the way of scary moments in this film other than a few escape attempts by the victims. I found myself squeamishly anticipating the capture/torture/operation of the victims, but even that was a letdown, and once the centipede is created, it just gets boring.

This was essentially a low-rent version of Silence of the Lambs; a guy kidnaps people and puts them in his basement where he turns them into a perverse personal art project. This movie, however, has horrible acting and implausible situations.

The American chicks were so dumb and annoying that by the time their mouths were sewn to each other's asses, I was glad just to not have to listen to them talk any more. The cops were bumbling and stupid - what police officers would accept a drink from a possible murder suspect? And the weird scenes of the doctor training the centipede like it was a pet dog...was that supposed to be funny? It was just off-color and weird.

Bad, bad movie. Tom Six - you suck.

The praise this movie is receiving is ridiculous. I, too, was manipulated by the hype and came out of the movie wanting to love it but I couldn't shake some doubts about the film. Here they are:

I HATED that cell-phone Bat-Vision crap. Liam Neeson taught Bruce Wayne how to be stealthy, quick, and sharp in Batman Begins, but here he resorts to some lame, way-too-easy gadgetry that was super annoying to watch on-screen.

The opening bank-heist was great, but every one of the Joker's schemes after that was way too implausible, and we don't question it. We just accept it because he's the Joker, but if you really think about it, how did he rig that entire hospital? What about rigging two ferries with hundreds of drums of gasoline?

Burning the money was dumb. How does he fund all his projects? How does he pay his men?

The Bat-Bike was lame and what was with the way it turned around, driving up the wall and doing a quick spin-around? What's wrong with skidding?

Morgan Freeman's resignation was stupid. After all he and Bruce have been through he quits just like that?

Throughout the movie, Batman beats up EVERY single person, big thugs, little thugs, etc, but when he fights the skinny, gawky Joker, The Joker almost throws him off the building? Batman would have made pulp of Joker in a microsecond.

And that stupid scene where Bruce Wayne accidentally fires the blades from his wrist-guard into the wall while examining his new weaponry? That was something out of a hokey Bond movie.

Maggie G. is not as beautiful as her character is supposed to be. Honestly, I thought Holmes was a better fit for the physique of the role.

I liked the movie overall and thought Ledger was great, but this film has received too many outstanding reviews and I think all of you need a wake-up call...It's good, but it will NOT win Best picture and does NOT deserve to be #1 all time on IMDb's list. It's the hype, and that's all...