So much average

The acting in this movie is really good.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

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?

At the end of this film, Leatherface found he was very close to his relative."Texas Chainsaw Buffet Chain"Maybe as they got closer, they decide to open up a buffet chain that sells to cannibles? This could be a horror/comedy.

The tone and style were probably the closest to the original film out of all the sequels, prequels and remakes so far. The film started very much like the original but changed into a strange morality tale where you felt compassion for Leatherface. I would have preferred to see him solely as the villain. It's still a fun ride with plenty of violence and slightly tacky 3D elements. The first true sequel with the same spirit is as you would hope. Shame it took nearly 40 years.

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.