Complete rubbish

Rating: 1/10 (30 October 2006)

Okay, the first was reasonable and looked impressive but was not exactly worth a sequel never mind a second sequel. Saw 3 is quite simply awful. A poor script badly performed is hidden by flashy CSI style editing and horror-style aesthetics in a lacklustre story about inhuman characters whom no-one in their right mind should care for. Parts of this film aspire to become almost as notorious in extreme cinema as the fire extinguisher scene early on in 'Irreversible'. It is horrifically gratuitous and misguided and the alleged plot twist is so obvious from an early stage that I felt later on like I should have walked out from the auditorium in disgust. It will merely appeal to the Friday night gore-hounds, whereas the first at least tried to be intelligent, despite ultimately being crass and morally dubious. So go and see this film if you want to feel violated by the end credits and for the rest of the evening