Every horror franchise has that one “Final Chapter”
installment that is immediately followed by a sequel that undoes all of that
and continues the series full-steam ahead.
I’m not sure why they waited seven years to make another Saw movie after
The Final Chapter. I’m not even sure why
they bothered to call it Jigsaw either.
I guess all horror franchises need to bring the killer’s name into the
title at some point.
Do you really need to know the plot? It’s just more of the same. Why they waited this long to tell this
particular story is beyond me as it’s almost indistinguishable from the last
couple of installments. Die-hard fans of
the saga will undoubtedly dig it, but it left me kind of cold. If you’ve seen one Saw, you’ve pretty much
seen them all. It contains all the booby-traps,
self-mutilations, and hacked-off legs you’ve come to expect by now. By now
though, there really isn’t much of a point to all the Jigsawing shenanigans.
In fact, throughout most of the movie, I was clocking this
at about a * ½ rating, which would put it close to the bottom of the barrel as
far as the series is concerned. Luckily,
it climaxed with an insane bit of disgustingness when a guy’s face is lasered off
in sections so that it unfolds into a squirming mass of what looks like a cross
between octopus tentacles and an Outback blooming onion. For that bravura scene alone, it’s getting **. Other than that, I think it’s safe to let
Jigsaw and the Saw series rest in peace for a while.
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