Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

How sad is this?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Now this movie came out in the aftermath of the early 80's "slasher" explosion when practically every film of that genre wanted to be a Halloween or Friday The 13th imitation. Some fools might even want to compare it to Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the mere obvious fact that it features a chainsaw as a murder weapon. However, this film is actually much more reminiscent of the old gore films of Hershel Gordon Lewis, inparticularly Blood Feast, and not so much in it's depicted gore (which is much better done in this film) but rather in it's campily sick & tasteless script. What really made "Pieces" a classic was its "unintentional humor." For example, the lady police officer is attacked assaulted by a Kung Fu master, then the guy just stiffens up and drops unconscious to the ground... But when Kendall, the "hero," arrives, it's all well; it's his kung fu professor, after all. Everybody is laughing and smiling as he says..." must have been bad chop suey!" And can somebody please explain to me... What was up with the skateboarding girl? How did that fit into the movie? Did I miss something? Also worth noting is a certain percievable crude humor and sexual innuendo in the killing scenes. How the trenchcoated killer suddenly whips out his wwwwhhhhhiiiirrrring chainsaw, which resembles a huge phallus, and the female victim recoiling, grimacing and shrieking in reaction. And something to be said about the campiness of this film,.. it actually has the effect of rendering the horrifying scenes that much more shocking and powerful when they occur!.. . to almost dissarm one, and I have no doubt that was something calculated on the part of the films makers. It seems to be a kind of intentional deceptive campiness under which a very sly and elusive creative brilliance is at work and designed to put one off their guard so to speak. But there's definitely no competition for the most bizarre ending of any slasher flick.Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

Back in the year 1942, a young pervert in Boston named Timmy gets chastised by his mother for trying to finish a jigsaw puzzle of a naked woman. The boy snaps, and chops her to death with an Axe. Two bumbling cops let Timmy go free. Forty years later, in a campus on Boston, the students are turning up dead, one by one. A serial killer is desiring to form a human jigsaw puzzle with body parts. It is up to Lt. Bracken (Christopher George) a student named Kendall, and former tennis pro, Mary Riggs (Lynda Day George) to try to stop himI've seen this countless times over the years. It was one of the very first horror movies I ever bought, back when I was first discovering my love for horror films. I wore out the DVD. Last night was the first time I had seen it in almost five years. Did it manage to give me entertainment still? Yup. This is European, so we have to put up with some horrible dubbing. Let me get one thing out-of-the-way. This is not a good horror movie. It is laughably bad at times, with horrendous acting, but i'm a lover of cheesy films, especially horror. The killer himself is rather average looking. He's hidden for the most part with a trench coat and a hat on. The gore is a different story. There are some truly nasty things in this movie. A student is cut in half, a woman gets drilled with an Axe repeatedly. Someone gets decapitated with a chainsaw, and much more. My favorites are the water-bed death, and the last scene, which I won't spoil. Ever see a woman pee herself during a stalk scene? You'll see it here. With movies like this, I tend to ignore the plethora of plot holes, but there is one I couldn't ignore. The two cops in the beginning are inexplicably stupid. How is it that there is no conjecturing, whether the boy could be the culprit? They let him go free without even looking into it. He was the only one in the house when his mother was killed, so you would think they would look into the boy being the murder. The acting is what you would probably expect. Christopher George is enjoyably corny as the Lt. His gruff persona was at least fun to watch, if nothing else. Lynda Day George is certainly sweet, and very easy on the eyes. She overdoes the hysterics in a big way, though. (Here is an example. BASTARD, BASTARD, BASTARD!!!!!) Ian Sera is OK as Kendall, but it is hard to rate his performance, since he is dubbed. Edmond Purdom is pretty poor as The Dean. His thick English accent felt out of place. The killer is very easy to predict. I'll be shocked if you don't figure out who it is, early in the movie. They try to throw you off guard, but it doesn't work. The shock ending is utterly pointless in every way. It is unrealistic and absolutely laughable with what they do. Very gory, but very stupid as well. Another carp I have with this film is that it does get a bit talky sometimes. I wouldn't call it boring, but it definitely becomes less interestingFinal Thoughts: If you love cheesy horror movies like I do, you'll most likely find things to enjoy about this film. If you are expecting Schindler's List, you may want to get your head examined. What can I say? I have a soft spot for this film, and I am not ashamed of it5.4/10

A strange slasher film with some very poor acting. Paul L. Smith wins the honours for worse acting in this daft gore flick but he is also the most entertaining as the very unhelpful gardener whose chainsaw goes on walkabout (why he never feels the need to lock it up to keep it away from the deranged killer is beyond me, but then again there are many points like this in this film). For such a big campus we have very few suspects, three in total (which includes the gardener who is ruled out pretty early) which get wittled down even quicker within the first 30 minutes leaving the viewer with only one glaringly obvious suspect, but never mind... How the murder gets around the campus with this chainsaw hidden is beyond me but there are some pretty neat hacking and dismemberment to watch and the piles of limbs left behind is quite comical. Speaking of which, we are subjected to a hilarious scene when undercover tennis playing police woman finds another victim in the changing rooms (this victim is sawn in half and the legs taken. She screams out "Bastard!" numerous times whilst clenching her fists, and then we have a random martial arts instructor kicking out at her in another scene for absolutely no reason..! There is a God-awful and stupid plot twist 20 seconds at the end of the film that makes no sense whatsoever and almost destroys what is a daft but fun addition to the slasher cycle. I give it 6 out of 10 (an extra point for the gore and a rather good axe job at the beginning of the film).

You will enjoy this movie, despite other review contentions. Why?This is really a classic of the early era of thriller/horror movies. The opening is great and gets right to the point. A 12 year old kid is assembling a nude puzzle. Mom steps in and destroys puzzle and says, the kid is just like his bad sex starved "Dad".Symbolically the piece that is missing from the puzzle is one of the vagina. Remember he is going though puberty, a critical time for a lad.Years later, the grown up lad tries to "reassemble" the girl with real people. A great plot idea. J. Demme would have liked to direct this one. Remember this is a slasher/horror film, do not expect Shawshank Redemption. If you want a good script watch, Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolfe. Horror scripts move the plot between chainsaw trimmings.Actually, direction, pacing, lighting are pretty good and there are some very funny moments in the film, combined with horror shots. The girl in the opening, for example, could have just slithered into the pool to escape Chainsaw Charlie. But the waterbed murder is every lad's wet dream. There she is, helpless in the waterbed with her wet panties, while Charlie Chainsaw goes to work on her. Other murders occur in ballet studios, elevators and the lawn. Most of the girls are puzzled and wondering why they are being dismembered. The ending is really good as most reviewers have suggested.Pieces is really in the D'Argeno style of film making: bizarre, horrible and yet really, really inventive and original. Get some popcorn, Pieces on the DVD player late at night and enjoy.