Too predictable

Rating: 5/10 (17 May 2008)

The original Saw will be forever one of the most brilliant movies ever made, from beginning to end the first time you see it you are left in amazement. The second movie was a bit of a let down but nonetheless very entertaining to watch, but too much of a good thing is a bad thing which leaves us with....this.
The thing about the first 2 movies are the plot twists that "no one sees coming", and while the first and second movies (the first time through anyway) have that killer x-factor, by now movie fans are looking for the twists. The sad part was I wanted to love this movie, I liked it because of the gore and Tobin Bell's continuing brilliance of John/Jigsaw but I wanted to love it like the first two movies, but I couldn't.
Several plot "twists" become disappointingly clear well before they're supposed to be revealed, which ruins the suspense when you know something's coming. You can come up with the ending's twist simply by putting 2 and 2 together about the possible parents of the children.
The plot of it isn't that great either, a man loses his son in a car accident and must save all the people involved that did nothing about justice for the child? Least the first movie centered around a Doctor with a shady past and the second around a cop's son trapped with a bunch of people his dad locked up. The dude running around debating whether to save people or not was not really something to get behind.
Now lets get to the gore...Dina Meyer gets her ribcage ripped out, a woman literally freezes to death, a judge almost drowns in pig guts and someone gets turned around 180 degrees. I must say they kicked it up a notch from the first 2 movies, but more doesn't necessarily mean better. Where the hell did Jigsaw and Amanda find 100 dead pigs anyway? Unlike the first 2 movies, this movie didn't end like there would be another sequel...yet they made one anyway. I can only hope that one can be a lot better than this, because this was just too predictable.
The highlight of the movie has to be the ribcage thing, I thought she got it bad in Starship Troopers but this takes the cake 5 out of 10