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saw: the rise of cobra

I suspect Joe's last name may be Eszterhas: Scene for PG-13 scene, the movie contains more penetrative imagery and deaths by stabbing than one of the self-proclaimed Hollywood Animal's vintage scripts. Otherwise Stephen Sommers' de-imagining of the Hasbro franchise mostly captures (and then freeze-pans around) the more gee-whiz aspects of playing with your toys in front of a green screen—before burdening each of those toys with unnecessary backstories involving all sorts of expressionless betrayal and chaste mannequin romance. Spoiler: Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance dampens fanboy suggestion that he should take up Heath Ledger's makeup in the next Batman. Grade: Z

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