The worst film of a truly overrated series.

Rating: 1/10 (24 January 2007)

I can give "Saw" credit for its originality and interesting twist, though it wasn't as well done as it easily could have been. Though "Saw 2" was extremely silly, I can understand releasing a sequel to a movie as popular as the original. "Saw 3," however, was unnecessary and unforgivable.
If people believed that gratuitous gore without context made for a good scare, they would watch surgery on TV when in the mood for a horror film. This was an unfrightening and hackneyed piece of garbage. The only semblance of depth I saw was that watching this movie was in itself a gruesome form of torture. I believe the script/screenplay was concocted in about 10 minutes, according to the following formula: 1. Think of a very simple twist, to be revealed 15 minutes before the end, 2. End the film by simultaneously playing familiar music and explaining exactly why one could have started the movie during the last half hour, both of which will cause the viewer to wish for a rudimentary, rusty medieval device to remove their ears and gouge out their eyes, and 3. Insert 1.5 hours of torture footage in front of it all.
I may only take solace in the idea that a "Saw IV" would be unlikely.