3rd time unlucky

Rating: 1/10 (25 May 2007)

Having watched and loved the first then being slightly let down by no.2 it came as no surprise that the latest installment of the hugely popular Saw franchise is a real stinker! Unfortunately there will be a forth installment but if you watch number 3 until the end credits as I did, then you may ask yourself this question "where do they go from here?" Anyway we'll leave that up to the powers that be.
As for this one well the less said the better. Jigsaw is back with understudy Amanda and they're up to the usual tricks. Some poor schmuck, or in this case schmucks are going to be made to jump through hoops of torture only to have to jump through even more. As a sign that the producers knew the plot was tissue paper thin the gore factor has been turned up way past 10 to ensure there is plenty of look-away moments.
In the end however it's all in vain and after all the blood-splatter and bone breaking we are left with a pretty poor follow up to what was once an original and gripping idea.