Unpleasant and dull

Rating: 2/10 (14 January 2007)

I quite enjoyed the first film , the second was OK though it did tend to stretch credibility to breaking point, but this third and hopefully (but unlikely to be)final story is just a chore to sit through.
After the second pretty much left Jigsaw at deaths door I did wonder what they were going to do with the 3rd film. What I ended up sitting through was a pointless mean-spirited and disgusting to watch film.
I enjoy horror films normally and gore is not normally a problem with me, however this film just seemed to throw everything it could in terms of sickening images at the screen and then along toddles the story long afterwards.
On a positive light the acting was OK and it did look well put together during the scenes that where not so dark you couldn't see anything. Then there was the ending which although quite obvious from early on in the film they then insult me by doing flashbacks of everything that I have just watched like I couldn't have worked it out.
Since my friend is a fan of this series I shall probably end up seeing a fourth if they make it, and the tacked on feeling end of the third seems to indicate there might be one, however I hope they remember that story is more important than gore (doubt it as the core audience now will expect ever sickening traps) and that they do not try and get round the ending of this one and bring certain characters back.
Film makers need to remember that horror does not equal gore, this series has gone from an interesting little thriller with the first film into some sub-par slasher series that is as bad as some of the horror sequels of the 80's.