The sadistic morality tale continues as Jigsaw’s ex-wife Jill Tuck (Betsy Russel) battles Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) for the serial killer’s violent legacy. Meanwhile fellow survivors gather to seek solace in each other’s experiences, aided by self help counsellor and fellow Jigsaw escapee Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery). Can the guru temper their fears or will his own dark secret catch up with him in hellish style?
Let’s get over the 3D garbage first. Warning: Intestines will fly out at you in this movie. A comedic aside to a largely vacuous script and appallingly acted farce. The tedium in which the movie lurches from one death scene to another left me hurt and daydreaming fondly on what was an originally terrifying and genuinely inventive concept film Saw, and disgusted at the prostituted franchise that followed.
A plus point in this fiasco of a movie is the ingenuity of the traps used. But the mental leap one must take to accept how the various protagonists ended up ensnared in the first place is so prodigious it only serves further to demonstrate the lack of any realistic narrative. The opening sequence has three promiscuous ne'er-do-wells trapped in what looks like a shop window, or could be a David Blaine style glass box? Didn't any passer by notice when this freak show was being erected in the middle of a busy city square?
I obviously miss the point. The film jumped on the bandwagon of 3D and was rushed out. Who cares how they got there, let’s see how they get their comeuppance! The Saw the franchise has become a parody of itself. This is a B movie cast in what seems a made-for –TV grotesque drama. Takashi Miike meets dodgy cops on The Bill, all on strong hallucinogens, all using brutal S&M equipment for your viewing pleasure. Put like that it all sounds rather watchable.
Just hope Twisted Pictures aren’t flirting with us when they say it’s the final chapter and they close the book on this tired format.
Verdict: This is one Jigsaw that should be placed on top of a wardrobe to gather dust and never be seen again. A genuinely terrifying movie monster has had his memory snared in a reverse bear trap and the pin pulled.
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