Truly Awful

Rating: 1/10 (27 October 2006)

The Midnight screening of Saw III was only about half full, an oddity for a 12:01 unveiling of a new movie at one of LA's most popular theater. Actually, there were more film-goers there than I had invasion, and I was shocked that there were still as many people remaining when the credits rolled.
Saw III is a much too long, much too ridiculous, much to gory, and not at all frightening piece of B-Movie-with-money trash. If Saw was clever and mildly gory, Saw II was contrived and very gory, than Saw III is bland and ultra gory. The gore in the first one shocked as well as served a satisfying purpose; here it just mortifies for the sake of mortification. The two-hour movie would have been thirty minutes if all flashbacks were eliminated, I found myself thinking this film should come with a warning label that says, "This film contains 25% new material." Its amazing the amount of places that the audience is told Amanda (Shawnee Smith) back-story and what she has done to "aid" Jigsaw in the past. The audience is given no credit for; or incentive to, watch the first two movies. Everything is spelled out in gory red detailed flashbacks. Folks if you want to sit through the first two films again, and you don't want to pay $15.00 to do it, I suggest you close your eyes and remember the parts of the first two films that stick most in your mind. Piece them together like a montage, and play it on a continuous loop. If you do that for 2 hours you would have just watched saw III.