First film still the best!

Rating: 5/10 (15 October 2008)

Would have been better as a standalone movie in my opinion. Sure it has gore by the bucket-load but it takes more than that to make a good horror movie, it takes a believable plot line and I am afraid this does not have one! The idea is good but there is very little connection to the two previous films. Sure we see how Jigsaw and Amanda developed as characters and how they started out with the killings in the original film but that is all. And bearing in mind the third film takes off where the second on ended there is almost no link whatsoever to it.
At the end of the second film a dying Jigsaw is in police custody yet in the third film he has managed to escape and even more amazingly manages to survive open brain surgery whilst awake and no gen anaesthetic. He would have died of shock! Just too unrealistic for me. And for a dying man and young woman to be able to kidnap the victims and put them in the various traps is too far-fetched! The first two traps/kills had no connection to the story other than to increase the blood count. Jigsaw no longer takes a jigsaw shaped piece of flesh from his victims which is after all how he got his name. The guy in chains was doomed anyway because even if he pulled them all out the door was welded shut. And the lady in the angel trap would never have pulled those things off her ribs even if she had undone the harness. Both these go against the rules of the game as neither of them had any chance of surviving!
It would have been better if it was a standalone film or the sequel to the original, started with the lady doctor being kidnapped and the first two traps being incorporated later on in the film! Can't say I am enthused about watching any more Saw films. And I am giving it a five purely for the inventiveness of the traps, the pig one was the best!