Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3: Leatherface
[DVD Info]

Michelle (Kate Hodge) and Ryan (William Butler) are in a car traveling from L.A. to Florida to drop off her dad’s Mercedes before Michelle moves to New York. While traveling through Texas they stop at Last Chance gas station where they meet a crazy old man, Alfredo (Tom Everett) and Tex (Viggo Mortensen…that’s right…you heard me correctly…Viggo…). Tex asks them for a ride but Ryan refuses. While Michelle is in the bathroom, Alfredo uses his peephole to watch her do her business. Tex grabs him and tells the couple what he was doing. Alfredo gets angry and grabs his rifle and starts shooting at them. Michelle and Ryan take off, leaving Tex to contend with the crazy. They freak out and take a side road that Tex had suggested; as they’re driving, a huge truck with a lift comes up behind them and throws an animal carcass on their windshield causing them to swerve off the road and blow a tire. As Ryan changes the tire, a man with a chainsaw comes at them. They get away just in time, only to see Tex bloodied and in the middle of the road. As they swerve to miss him they almost collide with a jeep and they fly off the road. The man in the jeep, Benny (Ken Foree) is a big black survival trainee and he tries to help the couple. Soon…all three of them are being hunted down by Leatherface (R.A. Mihailoff) and they will soon feel his wrath.

As always...Don't mess with Texas.
Never go into a neighboring home of where someone is trying to kill you...the chances are, they're in on it.
Chainsaws don't break when you throw them into bogs.
A chainsaw to the head is nothing but a mere flesh wound. You'll survive.

"Pretty damn good you backwoods mother fucker!" ~Michelle (in response to the chances she knows how to use a gun).

Viggo, Viggo, Viggo...you're actually not that great of an actor. And...I don't think you'll ever be cast in a movie where you don't wear a scarf around your neck (not including LOtR).

The biggest sin this movie committed was not that it was lame or disgustingly cheesy or even annoying. No…the biggest sin was that it was so…utterly…boring. The story itself wasn’t that bad and had a lot of potential… A lot of people hate it because it’s called Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 and it has not much to do with the original. If you think of it as its own little movie…then it’s not so bad (except for the boring part). They were focusing more on the person Leatherface was based on…Ed Gein. So, the story wasn’t that bad. A lot of people hate that he has a whole new family...that doesn't bother me as much as the fact that he has a daughter. How does that work? Who did he have a baby with? And how is a competent enough to raise this baby? There was no character development whatsoever and when they start getting picked off…you really don’t care. All you really know is that these two people were involved but they broke up because she needs some time alone (so why she asked him to go on this road trip seems weird since they fight the whole time). There are few plot holes regarding Benny and how this family never gets caught it beyond me. There’s a whole bunch of people that go missing in Texas and someone buys a 3-foot saw that has “The Saw is Family” carved in it and it’s plated in gold…wouldn’t someone kinda…I dunno…check that out? Just to see? The best part of this movie…is when Leatherface is using Speak ‘n’ Spell and it shows a picture of a person and he keeps typing in “food” and it tells him to try again. Haha…that was hilarious. That one scene doesn’t not save this pit of yawns from being boring… But it made me chuckle. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Bored)

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