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Rating: 5/10 (30 October 2006)

First, the flashbacks were a waste (as many have commented).
The "logic" and "twist" do not even make sense this time.
Jigsaw is testing Amanda? Already done that! At the end, Jigsaw says to Jeff, "I am the one responsible for the death of your son...and I have your daughter." So wait a minute. This time, Jigsaw MADE Jeff become a vengeful man unable to forgive the killer of his son? I thought Jigsaw was supposed to kidnap/torture people who were wasting their lives. Now he PROVOKES people into becoming the types of people he doesn't want them to be? And: what's up with the murder of the female cop at the beginning of this one? We barely got to know her, and her murder had NO connection to the main "test" of the film (that of Jeff). The first three gory scenes in the movie make it look like this will be about the investigation of the missing detective from Saw II...then that part just drops out of the film.
Saw I and Saw II were totally contained movies...the "twists" at the end may not have made perfect sense, but at least the killings themselves were confined within a coherent frame.
This movie has NO coherence, in short. A good torture/horror film cannot JUST be gory, because when the gore doesn't mean anything, it loses its effect (this is why Seven is an effective/disturbing film, for instance).
Best parts of this movie: brain surgery, doctor getting her head blown off, guy on the twist torture machine Next Saw: Amanda isn't actually dead, wakes up