Another welcome addition to the franchise

Rating: 8/10 (17 April 2009)

Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda kidnap a doctor to keep Jigsaw alive while they play one last gruesome game.
Well it seems like we have another classic menacing serial killer franchise in our midst's and frankly Jigsaw is a welcomed addition to the hall of fame, up there with other horror franchise greats such as Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Norman Bates and Ghostface. But unlike the others he doesn't actually kill his victims himself, instead he sets up his victims in gruesome traps and teach them how to value life, in which they don't as they mostly fail and end up dead in a truly gory fashion which is fantastic and original which I love.
The third movie in the franchise follows the successful and brilliant Part 1 and 2, and part 3 which is just as fantastic as the first 2. Where sequels usually jump shark round about this point, this one I'm glad to say doesn't they just keep coming up with fresh and astounding ideas which is definitely the reason why each movie keeps on becoming more and more successful. SAW III was akin to the more intimate and character driven approach of the original. SAW III was more than an assault of revelations and expansion on the franchise, it was also a vicious, gory beating, which I'm glad to say with each movie never loses the emotion and nerve racking of the previous efforts, I mean these are the type of movies that make you think and value your life it's as if Jigsaw is real, I mean if I ended up in one of those traps I would well and truly crap myself. Crueler and gorier than Part II but yet fuller, SAW III was the neck-snap the franchise needed to go out on! Tobin Bell plays Jigsaw/John with such flair I'm glad he didn't change the effectiveness/range that he displayed in all of the Jigsaw incarnations within this film and with each film we see more and more of him and he never loses that menacing charm, LOVED HIM. Shawnee Smith (Amanda) is again fantastic even better with each film showing more depth this time round I Love her. Angus Macfadyen (Jeff) was on the ball as the conflicted and mourning father forced into game where he has to make impossible choices. Bahar Soomekh (Lynn) was on and off for me but she did okay overall and Dina Meyer did well with her limited screen time.
All in all cleverly written packed with substance, strong characters, warped traps and hard to watch kills filled with gore which I loved and itwas incredibly ambitious sequel It addressed the whole franchise while having its own story to tell, a well and truly brilliant movie that packs a punch.