Jack Kitchen

Brilliant concept - difficult to execute and well executed in part! Feat of cinematography. Easy to andmire all efforts.. However .. let down by some atrocious acting .. and lack of pace and dynamics from ep 2 onwards - a giant hole where a satisfying ending might be.. Glad there’s space to experiment / buck trends and expectations.. more entertainment like this would be a fine thing. But sadly this one failed to keep my attention.

If you’re going to sequel an iconic classic.. you’d better have more heart and purpose in your story than this. It’s just not enough. Too many problems. If it’s wasn’t for Denzel it would be very thin. Flash over substance.. criminal.

Watchable performance from Tobin Bell and a reasonable first 20 minutes.. Based on the poster and the first few weeks of reviews I was expecting a classy grown up version of Saw, and hoped it would revive the standards and simplicity of the original movie.. Alas, a missed opportunity.. sadly I was distracted by: Regular “improbable possibilities”, questionable behaviours / blocking, blindingly obvious green screen, hokey and totally unnecessary coloured lighting, a wobbly, rubber prosthetic corpse .. and inexplicably grandiose ‘traps’ especially the last few. Lots of atrocious acting, but somewhat understandable - so much coverage the actors must have been freaking exhausted. They also seemed to be covering some bad film making ‘tracks’ with several editing techniques.. or intentional and just tastelessly unnecessary. If you don’t care about story ..or distractingly flawed film making .. and you’d like to spend money on being stressed and uncomfortable… go for it!!! : ) Or watch the original agin, far better film cleverly made for a fraction of the price.

Finally a director brave enough to go scoreless.. Airplane cockpit a tight space to film in and keep interesting for a full feature. Masterful edit and camera work. True cinematic art. Ignore miopic B-Movie comments.