Incomparable.

Rating: 10/10 (30 August 2008)

Oh. My. God.
I've made it my life goal to see every horror movie (mainly every gory horror movies) ever made. By now I've seen about 70% of them. I can't remember the last movie that made me cringe, it was so long ago. You could call me so desensitized that even the worst of the worst gore puts me to sleep---literally.
But then there is Saw III.
I've seen all of the other Saw movies, including Saw IV, but I never say this one until now because my ex wouldn't let me. I already knew the story. I already knew most of the gore scenes . . . and it still shocked me.
Unlike the boring, ungory Hostel: Part II, this movie is made for the MTV generation. It doesn't take time to characterize clichÃ© characters that could be copy/pasted from a hundred other movies, it doesn't start out slow and build "suspense" that isn't suspenseful, it's pretty much pure intensity from opening to finishing.
The gore is possibly some of the most intense gore I've seen in any movie to date. It's not as bloody as it could have been, but it's 1000x more brutal and creative than anything I've seen in any movie ever. And the lack of blood isn't because of a pansy director, it's because in the real situations there wouldn't be that much blood. Not to mention, this is one of the only movies I've ever seen where the camera does not blink once. No cut-off scenes, no pansy "no show, but grueling sound effects! OMG!", the camera simply does not blink away from the gore. Truly pornographic gore. Thank God someone has balls.
Gore aside, this has to be the single most intense movie I've ever seen in my life.
Bloody-disgusting.com thinks the new The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is intense, but, sorry, this makes that look childish. This makes both Hostels look childish. It makes the other Saw movies, including IV, look tame. The ending is intense I cried. "She didn't change! Because no one ever f***ing changes! No one is reborn!" The dialog, without any of the gore, alone makes the entire Hostel and Texas Chainsaw Massacre series combined look unexciting. I have simply yet to see a movie with more pure, unholy intensity.
Saw III is possibly the most perfect movie I've ever seen. I'm not sure if I like it more or less than Saw II, but it's certainly close. Everything reeks of polish and genius, but still keeps the low-budget feel.
Forget The Mist or The Decent or whatever horror crap you're watching: WATCH THIS MOVIE.
10/10