Monotonous, overproduced bore

Rating: 5/10 (28 October 2006)

Excuse the pun, but this third "Saw" entry sews up some loose ends left behind by the previous installments. Once again, the insane Jigsaw plays a series of macabre games in which various abductees end up killed in an ingenious fashion. Here, one man's limbs gets twisted until they bleed and break, and another man, a judge, is immersed in ground-up pig guts. The whole shebang is terribly overproduced and zapped of potential suspense by the fact that we always cut between the victimizer and his victim. It all felt like wallpaper to me after a while. I just wanted it to end. The production values are high, the sound mix is deafening, and the film's photographic facade is green and grim. But it's monotonous. The nasty dialog is creative while the dialog in which humans are meant to interact realistically is weak. I hate to say it, but endless torture and bloodshed is boring.