This is when most people I feel lost interest in the franchise based on numerous conversations I have had with people. And I get it. I truly get it. They get sloppy at this point. People may have started to bored of Hoffman’s antics. Some of the scenarios are just silly. I won’t say those people are wrong. What I will say is that you need this movie for better or worse to get us to the finale. It adds some different perspectives, and storyline wise, may be the weakest, but it has better death/gore than 7.
So this starts off with 2 people, one is gonna die. They are in 2 separate rooms. Whoever is willing to cut more from their body, and my more, I mean weight wise, over the course of a minute, they will live. The other will have these drills bore in their head. The girl is dumb as hell and slow. The guy immediately is hacking off some of his stomach fat. The decides to try to through her forearm. She has a cleaver there, but doesn’t use it immediately, which nobody has ever understood. As Ron pointed out, and I concur, wouldn’t it have made more sense to chop part of your leg off and keep both of your arms? Stupid bitch. She wins, she lives, minus an arm.
There’s a cool carousel seen where members is this dude’s work team, they help him find loopholes to deny insurance claims, they are strapped to a carousel and the main guy can only allow 2 of them to live and he gets his hand fucked up in the process. It’s a gripping scene no doubt. There are a lot of good gore in this, BUT I felt it may have relied too much on gore, and not pushing the series forward as much as it could have. I suppose this movie is probably better if all you want is a gorefest, but from a perspective of keeping the franchise’s momentum up, it fails in that regard. Only a few small pieces here and there. Hoffman at this point is carrying this franchise, and he is awesome, but he could have used more people from the past.
There is a sweet rib squeezing trap where the main insurance guy and this other dude are in this contraption. Basically if you take a breathe, your ribs get squeezed more and more. It was a fun idea. The one where he held onto the chains with people being lynched by barbed wire was weak. It did make me think, would this movie have been better if Bryan Cranston was the lead. the answer is yes, but not by enough. The hot steam maze was fun, but it ended with a whimper in my opinion.
They did this stupid story where Hoffman knew that Amanda was with Cecil, who is the guy that caused Jill Tuck’s miscarriage, which sent John over the edge. I dunno, it seemed kinda tacked on. Also, we see that John left Jill the reverse bear trap head thingy that Amanda escaped in part 1. She uses it on Hoffman. Hoffman is finally tested. He bashes the device in his hand, breaking it so he can undo the restraints, and then gets the jaw mechanism in between these bars, rips off a godo chunk of his lower face on one side and escapes. He’s a hoss.
All in all, this is getting a 6. Talk to me next year, it may fluctuate.
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