Jigsaw wants to play a game. Despite his name, he can't play with himself so as usual a number of non-entities are lined up to get fed into a kind of krypton-factor-with-acid-and-blades dungeon gameshow. Hang on, isn't jigsaw dead? Yes he is, and the producers must really regret that now....the last three movies have been comprised mostly of flashbacks and feeble plot devices that attempt to pull in elements from earlier movies in the franchise to try to create a neat, overall plot arc where none actually existed in the first place.
These movies are cheap..they are filmed like tv shows, the cast drop further and further down the food chain with each movie and it beggars belief that these actually get cinema releases. I like my ultraviolence a lot but who the F**K is watching these? As usual there are two simultaneous plots running throughout...the "cops and killer" bit and the "victims" bit. Ther first part is mind-bendingly dull, the "victims" part pretty standard, involves some health insurance guy forced to kill or save members of his staff.
Gore wise the movie blows its beans in the first five minutes and the rest of the kills are quite meh.(and certainly nothing to compare to the "key lodged behind the eye" bit at the start of Saw 2. Argh!) They don't even bother with a big dramatic reveal at the end as they normally do, simply because there -is- nothing more. This dead horse has not just been flogged, someone's been sick on it. All the scenarios have been played, but all the signs point to a Saw 7. And if you go see it, I'm going to come around to your house and force you to play Boggle with a f**king beartrap around your head.
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