Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Good idea lost in the noise

Absolutely Fantastic

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

This is one of the weirdest, unexpected sequels since Halloween 3. The film opens with a quick flashback and picks up exactly where the last one leaves off. The police, along with some vigilantes torch the Sawyer house with the murdering cannibals inside. A little girl is saved and raised by one of the vigilantes. Now that she is grown, (Alexandra Daddario) Heather discovers she is adopted and the sole heir to the Sawyer plantation in Texas.She travels there with 3 college mates and picks up a person along the way, because the unwritten code of a Texas Chainsaw movie is the hitchhiker/rider. As it turns out, she is not the only heir left and you come to sympathize with the cannibal with a chainsaw.The film has its share of severed bodies, blood, and gore. The 3D action is climaxed with a chainsaw tossed at the camera. Remember this is a sequel. Keep the expectations low.Parental Guide: F-bombs. Implied sex. No nudity. Tania Raymonde bra/panties. Alexandra Daddario open shirt cleavage...and how did her shirt become buttoned shut once it was ripped open?

Texas Chainsaw 2. Texas Chainsaw 3D. Texas Chainsaw "I Don't Give A Flip What It's Called". So the quote on the bluray cover states "as terrifying as the original", which acts as a disservice to the 1974 horror classic. Why? Because. This. Was. Atrocious. Undoing all the other sequels/remakes/reboots that the franchise consists of, this is a straight-up sequel where the Sawyer family are murdered. However, a baby girl survives and 40 years later goes back to the town to reclaim her inheritance which also includes Leatherface living in the basement still. It starts off with clips from the original, acting as a nostalgic recap for all those who have waited for a sequel. Ironically, this two minute segment is actually the only scary and realistic part of this entire flick. Aside from Daddario's enigmatic stomach which deserves its own casting credit for having the most screen time, there is nothing else here that justifies this sequel's existence. Firstly, if it is set 40 years later (there are smartphones being used), why is the main character in her early 20's? How is Leatherface's chainsaw not rusty from lack of use? Why wasn't the letter opened immediately? How is it that the police officers are overruled by the town's mayor? Why would you leave the stranger behind in the house by himself? Why was this made? Why am I watching this? Who am I? I don't even know anymore! The acting was dreadful from everyone. The provocative push for 3D gimmicky effects took away from any scares or gory moments that the film attempted to portray. A guy gets sliced by a meat grinder, it is undoubtedly one of the worst use of visual effects I've ever seen. The worst crime is that they turned Leatherface into an anti-hero. Are you actually kidding me? He just killed all of your friends darling and now you side with him just because he's family? I'm done. It's nearly a carbon copy of the original, but worse than worse. There's no logic and no reasoning for this to exist. Pass me the chainsaw, I'm cutting this disc in half.

Texas Chainsaw is a very pointless film, and wields a chainsaw that clearly has no real teeth. The 3D gimmick quickly becomes tiresome as there are only so many random objects that can be pointlessly pointed at the screen (and when you watch it on TV, it is all null and void anyway), but the plot simply is not there and doesn't really add up (a murderous gang in a rambling house having a millionaire benefactor? A funfair crowd that pretty much ignores a chainsaw-swinging maniac in hot pursuit of a defenceless young woman?). Also, the main narrative premise makes no real sense in terms of the side we, the good viewers, are supposed to take. OK, there is some unlawful vigilante antics at the outset that sees off the Chainsaw clan, but are we really supposed to be that moved? This is a family that ruthlessly kills all who fall into their clutches, an ethos carried on by the surviving Leatherface (shacked up in palatial splendour, to boot), so the sense of moral outrage expressed by Heather (and the Sheriff) is really weird. Oh dear, the nascent Mayor eliminated a group of murderous cannibals in his youth, how awful! I sure hope that justice is served and that Heather and her human face-wearing Charge live happily ever after (with Heather effortlessly overlooking how 'Cuz' brutally butchered her boyfriend and best friend, but family is family, I guess). The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was a triumph of '70s nihilistic horror, but this slick, CGI-filled, 3D-charged farrago just needed to be hung on a meat hook. Très bad.

This does not deserve a 4.8 which is it's current rating as I write this.Acting is good - no one's going to win an Oscar, but it's on the higher-end of slasher film acting. The effects are good and there is plenty of action.No, it's not an amazing plot and no, it's not entirely logical, but ultimately, how many slashers are? If you are genuinely watching Texas Chainsaw 3D for logic and an amazing plot: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.If you're looking to be entertained by some hack and slash chainsaw action with good production and decent-to-good acting, you could do a hell of a lot worse than this.