Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I can just see the look on Jordana Brewster's face as she looked at this film's screenplay & muttered under her breath "Really? I got to do one of these things!" Neither terrifying or horrific in any sense of the words, the prequel to the 70's classic skews more to the Strangers/Saw movies than anything approximating a good film. When will the makers of these types of films realize we need someone to root for. By providing context of the background of the killers we know who'll survive, what investment do we have in watching this dreck? Until film goers start voting w/their wallets & ignore this crap we're going to keep getting it & w/this title's pedigree, the ol' charnel conveyor belt will have material for years to come.

I am giving this a 10, because the rating for it on here is absurd. It is easily a 7-9 film, but has a rating on here of less than 6?????How does this film get voted so low? Because it is very gory? That is the main complaint I see, or that it didn't bring anything new to the series. Really? I thought this was one of the most memorable and disturbing ones in a long time. This one is light years beyond the stupid crap sequels added on to the original. Even the other reboot with Jessica Biel was decent, I thought. Strange how people can see things so differently. The original Tobe Hooper film is OK, but nothing extra in retrospect. It kind of got lucky and opened up a cheap, gritty slasher market, but it wasn't really brilliant film making or better than these 2000s films. This one is very bloody, but I didn't feel it devolved into a torture porn for the sake of torture. I thought it told a lot of disturbing backstory, with a really gritty and disturbing film quality and this Leatherface is truly scary and brings HUGE(Literally) stage presence. There are some plot holes, like all films, but overall, I thought this was great compared to many others. R. Lee Ermey as the sadistic sheriff was awesome. Who could hate his character??? Both funny and darkly terrifying in one blend. I was on the edge of my seat and glued to the movie screen when I went to see this with a date for the first time. In fact, it had her curled up and kissing me after the show, and we were both really unnerved, and still terrified a bit while necking in the car out in the country later on. How some films have a 9 up here, and this has a 5, I will never understand.

Going on a road-trip together, two brothers and their girlfriends going to reenlist in the Army find their stop-off in Texas puts them into contact with the vicious Hewitt family and their chainsaw- wielding son Leatherface and must find a way of getting away alive.This one was a pretty big disappointment, and only has several good things throughout it. One of the biggest positives for this one is that this ups considerably the two factors that had plagued the previous entries in the gore and body count. This one has almost enough deaths than all the previous entries alone, and it generates these through some rather some fun scenes in here. The car chase from the bar and the resulting crash where they get confronted by the family is quite a rather chilling sequence where they get taken away in a creepy manner, while the cutting scenes in the basement are quite stomach-churning there's quite a lot more to like here from the creepiness of the family as they hold the friends hostage. From their torture methods of continually hitting them to continually forcing them to perform arduous tasks in impossible conditions and leaving traps that prevent their escape to their sheer calmness at all of the brutality unleashed and all of their bizarre traditions, they seem weird and creepy which is a great facet that lets the gore really fly in here. The only other thing that works is the final chase through the meat factory which is really great as well, being a really long, brutal and exceptionally gory sequence in a creepy location with an emphasis on suspense and is full of action that soon leads into the great confrontation in the car that ends this in a great manner. These are all that work for the film as this one is a really big disappointment, especially against the first one. The fact that there's very little going is a big one, since it never really does anything interesting for most of the movie with little slashes of interesting scenes here and there, but most of it concerns the group talking or the family making threats against them, and that is a major source of frustration. This is due to them holding them captive for a while and yet there's a long time in between before they start killing with most of that time spent on making threats coupled with pretty mild torture scenes before it leads to killing. There's also the fact that this one also suffers from what the others in the series suffer from, namely the lack of threat from Leatherface as the amount of screen time for Leatherface is quite minimal, making it hard to feel anything but the terror evinced from what he's doing. There's no motive for what's happening and that works even less in building fear for him. That he causes only a couple of deaths is another disappointment, since there's only so much that he can do that at some point it just becomes rudimentary that others would have a higher kill total. That there is the biggest one in lowering the threat of the villain, and also helps to sink the film a lot, as well as its other flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

A lowly excuse to make a generic new-school horror movie, and then somehow shoehorn the TCM storyline and Leatherface character into it. They could've substituted Leatherface for some other random new baddie called something like...'Nylon Legs', and no one would've known the difference. This is literally just another torture-porn movie to chuck on the pile with all the others.Filmed in that sepia brown/green/red style that someone somewhere decided was all edgy and deep, the film is typical '20-somethings on road-trip get hijacked by psychos then tortured' fare that gets boring after 15 minutes then drags like a very draggy thing. Absolute cookie cutter nonsense. This is one 'beginning' that'll have you begging for the end right from the start.