Decent entry, if not overly spectacular effort

Rating: 5/10 (26 October 2015)

Kidnapped from her hospital routine, a doctor is gathered by Jigsaw and his disciple to keep him alive as they run another man through their rigorous game and finds the situation more strenuous and challenging than she expected.
This was an incredibly flawed film with a couple crippling flaws and hardly anything to keep it afloat. One of the really only good things about this is the fact that the first traps in the beginning are rather cool and impressive-looking which is pretty nice, getting some solid moments to start this one off. As one is forced into position with hooked chains on almost every joint in the body, and from there must remove them before a bomb goes off is really nice, while another that has a rib-spreader device attached to the entire chest is also quite brutal. Coupled with the later ones which aren't traps but have evolved to be simply scenarios which must be stopped before being played out to the gruesome end, from the freezing room and the sludge pit while the big centerpiece sequence where the victim is trapped to a violent limb- twister that slowly rips every limb around in unrealistic manners that makes for a messy and gory sequence, and this one scores nicely on its traps. As well, this one also gets rather fun here in how it sells the logistics of the twist which showcases several roving plot-threads at once which signal a much more involved and complex story here that comes off really nicely showing the whole plan as a lot more complex than expected. The only other thing that works, which is the surgery scenes, which are disturbing, freaky and a little unsettling, which are film's good points since this has some big flaws. The first is that there's plenty of time in here spent on useless moments. This is most evident in the scenes of the three in the makeshift hospital arguing or yelling at each other, and their conversations about the most useless facets of the situation go on so often that it just becomes so unbearable it's hard to get into the scenes. This also affects the scenes showing the back-story, as there's no need to show the set-ups of how the traps were concocted from before in the series, as it's not that exciting and takes away from the film by going behind-the-scenes of what's already known. It makes the nonevent of the torturing in here standout even more, and that's two really big problems that come from this. There's no need for them since there's too many of them to begin with and it's time taken up with useless scenes in a situation where it's unnecessary to be that way, and here it stays so low and nonessential that having them in there is a detriment to the film, as well as taking up valuable time from the film for such a useless part. The traps are fun, but there's hardly any in the film, taking a backseat to the relationship, and as a whole nothing in here seems important. It just leaves a feel of disinterest in what has happened, from the traps to the pacing to just about everything in here. As well, this one also comes across with the feeling of his own brand of punishment being too far self-centered that there's little to gleam from the ethics and morality found here which tends to come away rather whole-heartedly here. These here are the film's flaws.
Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.