"I'm human. I'm human just like your son was."

Rating: 4/10 (10 March 2007)

And there was me thinking he'd probably be a labrador, or a small goat. It's bad dialogue, though surprisingly it's not the worst offering in this tired, repellent sequel.
I was shocked to discover that the writing team is exactly the same as it always was through all three movies, meaning that the same hands that were behind the inspired and original Saw are responsible for this repugnant dross. As Darren Lynn Bousman was behind the first sequel - which was also inferior, though nowhere near as bad as this - then it's possible that it's his direction that kills it. Certainly he's not able to get a decent performance out of Angus Macfadyen, or give us characters to care about. His obnoxious jump cut cinematography only serve to distance the viewer from what's going on in the fiction of the piece.
Whereas once Saw was about the inventiveness of the situation, here it's just about the grotesqueness of the mutilation. Borderline misogynist at times, there are even traps with no escape, just a high level of blood count. The news that a fourth film with Bousman but with new writers is in pre-production is sad news indeed. The original Saw was a striking movie, but sadly the $ talks, and more of these will continue to be made, to ever decreasing returns...