Great Movie, Right up until the end.

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2007)

I just viewed this for the first time the other night. I had seen the first two.
I loved the first one, a true masterpiece for the Horror Genre and one that'll always stand alone. No matter how many Horror flicks you've seen, the first one has major originality. They did quite a few things that hadn't been done before and did other things that had been done but did them better.
I enjoyed the second one but not nearly as much as the first one.
****Spoiler Time**** Killing Off the cop: (Dina Meyer) Big Mistake! She played such a small role in the other two, they barely had enough time for character development. Breaking John's tradition of giving someone a "way out" even if it was profoundly difficult was also a mistake. Then there's the underlined thing here, I must confess that I'm a guy and like other guys out there, we hate seeing the hot woman get all messed up like that. She must like dying in a gruesome fashion in movies (Starship Troopers, Saw III). Don't worry Dina, someone out there will feel bad like me and resolve not to let you die off like that! Amanda: Huh? What? I'll admit she's not the most likable person in this one. In fact she was rather irritating. She's such a Nut Job in this one that it's kind of a relief to see her get whacked at the end. I just wonder why they bothered to kill her off right then and there.
John: Last but not least we get to Jigsaw himself. Why did they bother to go to all the trouble to save him just to kill him off too? I think this could have easily been good for one more sequel if not for that.
One last critique here: (***Spoilers Again****) The two plot twists: The bit with Amanda and The bit with the Jeff just really seemed tired and unnecessary. Maybe one of the two would have been both but in this case more just wasn't better. I think they could have done without one of them.
Now with all that in mind, this was a good movie. I really enjoyed the new traps and the new goodies they had. The last one they showed was particularly ingenious, gruesome but ingenious. The twisting of the mechanisms was particularly hard to watch.
I hope they're able to pull off Saw IV.