Too much Blood not enough flesh

Rating: 3/10 (16 March 2007)

I waited ages for the third piece of the franchise to come out and was sorely disappointed.
The first film was genius, the second a little messy the third just plan dumb. To be fair I got the version that has been dubbed "Extreme" but could find no other on DVD.
The murders are overly Voyeuristic and pointless (which to be fair is kind of the point of them in this film) when any good horror movie director would have cut away to live the rest to your imagination the camera stays on the scene, and stays, and stays and stays and stays. It is truly horrific in parts and what is worst there is only a point to every third or so killing. Very few have any significance to the story except to cram in more gore-time.
Where as Jig-saw was an enigmatic character, who although we hated a small dark part of us could sympathise with he is paradoxically brutal and weak.
To me Saw was an extension of Seven this is a high budget low rate gore fest (without having the coolness or humour of say Living Dead or Bad Taste).
I found myself sitting through hours of torture to get to the inevitable sting in the tail (which, evidently was very weak)
Unless you love sixteen gallons of blood to go with your popcorn I would recommend Saw fans stay away and pretend the series ended at 2.