Rating:8/10
One of the things that worked so well in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake was the effective atmosphere.  This movie had such a dark atmsophere right from the get go with the little documentary that started off the film and the suicide right off the bat.  And since you know what you are getting into and see how the atmosphere is, the tension starts to slowly build.  It builds in a way that you are sitting on the edge of your seat the more you watch this film.  Jessica Biel was very convicing as the lead.  R. Lee Ermey brought in some good comic relief, but shows he has one helluva nasty side to him.  What a great performance he brought to the movie.  There was not one weak link in the cast.  For all you gore hounds, there is more than enough to go around.  That even helped with the tension and the uneasy feelings that this movie was portraying.  The weakness this movie had was that it played up to the crowd.  We had to have somehow a happy ending or maybe making them overtly pay somehow.  Now I'm not saying that Leatherface and Ermey's character shouldn't have got what they had coming to them, but to have baby snatching(can't remember if that was in the original or not), you knew exactly what was going to happen at the end.  We didn't need the baby snatching.  That kind oftook away from the film.  Also, was it me or did the ending come around too fast?  This was kind of a pointless remake, but it was one of the better remakes ever done.