Oh my GOD is this a bad movie. Never, never, never watch this movie, if you can possibly help yourself. For some reason I now can't even begin to explain, I kept thinking I aught to check this movie out. Everyone I know has the good sense to recognize a travesty in filmmaking from the trailers, but apparently I do not. Luckily, Uncle BT got me the film for free, so I watched it today, because my cable/internet went down.
It's simply hideous. Cary Elwes is a bad actor. I'm sorry to say it, because I love the Princess Bride, but he was utterly hideous in this film. When he starts having to convey real emotion, he gets this bizzare half British, half American accent that just doesn't work. After he sawed his own foot off, which he fully, fully did, he did some incredibly bad acting. I can't say that it'd be easy to act like a person that just sawed their own foot off, but I can say for sure that Cary Elwes failed at the task.
This film also features something that screenwriters put in films, and which should literally carry the death penalty: the person who has the killer at gunpoint, but won't shoot, and diddlefucks around until the killer manages to snatch the gun away. It has this EXACT conceit, along with the lesser varient, in which somebody fails to shoot the killer and instead attacks them physically, and even has the misdemeanor version, which is the old “take seven shots at the killer while he runs away, and only wing him, or miss entirely.” Considering that the screenwriters included the 1st degree felony version, the 2nd degree felony version, and the misdemeanor version, I think they need to be tortured to death, then killed. Sawing off their feet would be a good start.