*Spoilers* Not on par with its predecessors

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2006)

There were several things I enjoyed about the previous Saw films that were all but abandoned in this installment: One: As someone mentioned earlier, in Saw III people can no longer save themselves. Jigsaw says he is still trying to teach the same lessons, yet people cannot choose to live or die anymore; they are subject to other people's choices. This, in itself, seems to contradict the purpose of 'the game'. Second: Overkill, overkill, overkill. Overkill on the violence; overkill on the acting (I'm sorry, but Amanda just whined nonstop), and overkill on the final montage. Really, the ending wasn't that clever; there's no need to spend three minutes flashing it all back for us, up to literally seconds before the montage began. Plus, besides the fact that people could not leave the traps without assistance, the traps themselves were overkill. Where the hell did they find an unattended slaughterhouse with about 100 dead, rotting pigs waiting to be shredded? Finally: When I exited the theater, I was thinking of the little girl, and why it bothered me that he took her. Then it kind of hit me: Even when the detective's son was abducted, he had a criminal record; he was not innocent. I believe this is the first truly innocent person Jigsaw took, and once again, she has no way to free herself; she was left subjected to whether or not her father could save her. All in all, the man who played Jigsaw did some very good acting, but the script did not allow for the Jigsaw character to truly act his part.