the gorier of the three!

Rating: 7/10 (28 October 2006)

How do you rate a film like Saw? Good or bad? If I say good, the Academy crowd will snub my comment and if I say bad, the fans of the series will get my head.
Question becomes: does it fill its promises. On that I have to agree that it hits the nail on the head. It certainly bring to the screen a series of torture-like traps and a cool ending that are now synonymous with Saw (and Halloween for some of us!)
Saw 2 definitely took its cues from the first one, the third one seems to look at the first 2 and build around what made them work. For example, in my opinion fewer characters and intrigue made the first Saw better, but a story that digs deeper in the mind of the killer gave an edge on the second one. So in Saw 3, the intrigue revolves around one guy that has to go through a series of tests. Certainly there are other characters for the killing quota(the first couple of deaths, while they were cool, were virtually pointless). But the film also takes you behind the scene of some of the more famous traps, how Jigsaw set the scene, painted the puppet, etc.
For that, I say Saw 3 was a good sequel and delivers gore for those who want it. The first Saw was a big punch in the face that almost chocked me but since, we've had Saw 2-3, Hostel (2in the making) Texas chainsaw, Live feed, and then some. Perhaps here lays my main bad criticism for Saw 3. These films are less and less about complex intrigue but more about what will be the next shocker that people will talk about for a while. It's becoming a little too gory for me, and maybe I won't even go to the 4th Saw it there will be such a thing.
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