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...wide, with a pyramidal top. He brought it to the cemetery over the weekend, during a snowstorm (flakes obscure the structure in many of the photos). He then hollowed out the ground in front of it in a hole of the exact same dimensions, “like a shallow grave.” Finally, he filled the totem with the soil that had been scooped out. The result is “this weird, bizarrely black obelisk in the middle of the woods,” whose glass reflects its surroundings...
...interest of an easy conclusion. Additionally, the script gives little insight into the motivation behind the characters’ actions and emotions. Viewers first meet the eight victims as stock characters, and by the end of the film, few have made any real impression. Developing a rapport with the shallow Detective Mason is no easier, ultimately hurting the audience’s appreciation for his struggle. Particularly disappointing is the intimate look at the inner workings of Jigsaw. Although Tobin Bell’s performance is the closest to respectable in the film, he ultimately fails to portray...
...during a therapy session, “I was married to a man who couldn’t love me; now, I’m with someone who loves me, but who is not a man.” No one talks like this in real life. Indeed, the shallow, obvious individuals that inhabit “Prime” prevent the story from reaching deeper emotional and comic levels. Rafi loves the Village and Merlot; Dave enjoys Nintendo and beer; Rafi’s gay guy pals in the Hamptons are prissy. These are not real people?...
...interest of an easy conclusion. Additionally, the script gives little insight into the motivation behind the characters’ actions and emotions. Viewers first meet the eight victims as stock characters, and by the end of the film, few have made any real impression. Developing a rapport with the shallow Detective Mason is no easier, ultimately hurting the audience’s appreciation for his struggle...
...rest of the acting is downright abominable, with virtually all victims in the house (“7th Heaven”’s Beverley Mitchell by far the worst) providing shallow and unrealistic performances that are not even good by horror flick standards...