Saw 3D

Plot synopsis:
The movie opens with a glass cage which contents is in full view of confused onlookers. Two men who apparently know each other wake up chained to either end of a table saw inside the cage. Suddenly, a girl is unveiled; suspended above the two men. The puppet, "Billy" rides in on a trike and says they each have to decide whether the other man will die, so that the girl that has been dating both guys will live, or choose to not kill each other and let the girl die. One guy starts to push the saw to the other end, and the other guy pushes back. The girl then tells one man she loves him and the jilted man starts winning. She then tells the one who is about to 'win' that she loves him but he doesn't believe her after she had just said she had loved the other guy a moment before. Consequently, they agree to let her die instead and she is sawn in half, spewing blood out of her mouth as her intestines spill on the floor.Detective Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) escapes from a trap which was attached to his head. He just misses a hiding Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell), and instead focuses on stitching himself up. As Jigsaw's ex-wife and with enough familiarity of Hoffman's character, Jill knows that Hoffman will not give up hunting her, and begins making her own arrangements. Heading to the police and requesting a detective not previously involved in the Jigsaw case, Gibson (Chad Donella), she tells him that she has important information and evidence that she will give up only if she gets immunity. Gibson immediately agrees to this.Bobby Degen (Sean Patrick Flannery) is a survivor of Jigsaw/John (Tobin Bell), and he has written a self-help book called S.U.R.V.I.V.E. which is based on his experience of escaping a Jigsaw trap. He pierced his pectoral muscles with hooks and hoisted himself into the air in order to escape. He is being interviewed and with him are his best friend Cale (Dean Armstrong), his lawyer Suzanne, his public relations woman Nina (Naomi Snieckus), and wife Joyce (Gina Holden). He and his handlers argue about how well the interview went. Nina wanted him to mention his wife so Joyce could come out on stage and he could kiss her, but Cale, Suzanne, and Joyce think it went well.Some white supremacists are at an abandoned junk yard. The driver is glued to the driver's seat. His girlfriend is chained under the car with barbed wire. His friend is in front of the car, and another friend is also in a trap. A tape plays and says that the driver has judged people by the color of their skin and now he is going to learn that everyone is the same color on the inside. He has thirty seconds to rip himself from the seat so that he can pull a lever. Otherwise, the car is going to fall off the jacks, crushing his girlfriend and causing a chain reaction which will kill him and the others. He tries to reach and gets close, but ultimately is unsuccessful. The car falls on the girlfriend, then goes forward and rips up the the one friend and then runs over the second one, the car crashes and the driver is thrown through the window.Bobby is hosting a gathering of Jigsaw survivors. Some agree that the trap experience helped them but others thought the experience left them even worse off, so Bobby gives a little pep talk meant to inspire and bring optimism. The pep talk is countered by the sarcastic clapping of a mysterious man who indirectly questions the usefulness of the meetings and hints that it is no more then promotional material for Bobby's fame. At the end of the meeting Cale asks Bobby who the "creepy guy at the meeting with the cane" is, Bobby reveals that the man is at the meetings all the time but that he's harmless and there is nothing to worry about. Joyce and a bodyguard heads to the car but when Bobby goes out to join them he finds the car empty. Without warning, he is suddenly attacked.When he wakes up, he is in a cage. The puppet "Billy" appears on a TV screen and tells Bobby that they both know his story of being a Jigsaw survivor is a hoax. Now he must be earn that status by completing a series of tasks to get to his wife, who is chained in an unknown location. First, he has to pull a handle which causes the bottom of the cage he is in to drop off. He is suspended from the cage over a small square of sharp objects sticking out of the floor. He swings his legs to get the cage clear of the them and jumps. He follows signs written in red which apparently contain drivel from his book. He and his handlers are in the game.First is Nina, who Jigsaw charges as someone who continues to spread lies. She has a fishhook jammed down her throat and is tied up in a contraption. Screws in the contraption are all aimed at her neck and hooked to a sound measure. Jigsaw explains that the device measures the decibel level in the room, and if it exceeds a whisper the screws will advance and impale her in the neck. There is also a timer that will set off the screws unless she is unlocked from the contraption but the key is in Nina's stomach, Bobby must pull out the fishhook to retrieve it. She can't resist screaming in pain as Bobby tries to pull out the hook and splatters them both in blood. By the time he gets the hook out she's screaming loudly in pain, the screws impale her and she dies. Shaken, Bobby again accuses her of never being able to stay quiet.Next is Suzanna, who Jigsaw charges as someone who not only speaks lies but knowingly looks away from the truth. She is in a trap which will impale her in the eyes and mouth unless Bobby stands in a different machine and pushes a huge amount of weight up. He tries hard, but the contraption actually stabs him while he is lifting the weight. He is unable to handle the pain or hold up the weight for the required 30 seconds and the lawyer is killed. Now injured, Bobby slowly makes his way to the next room, where he finds a copy of his own book with his signature. The book is missing its jacket cover and Bobby finally gets a hint of Jigsaw's identity.Not long after Bobby had published his book he held a book signing where fans told him of the inspirational change he had wrought on their lives. A man identifying himself as John asks him about that role and Bobby claims to be spreading a good message, but John implies that lying on public record is never justified. He takes the signed book but removes the jacket cover, claiming he does not need it and giving Bobby a meaningful look. The flashback ends and Bobby, chilled with the realization that he had met the Jigsaw killer himself, moves on to the next room.The third and final obstable is Bobby's friend Cale. He is on the other side of the room and blindfolded. The room lacks a floor and only has a few planks to grant its occupants movement, if they fall off the planks it could kill them. Hanging in the middle of the room is a key, the two men must meet halfway across the room so the key can unlock Cale's device because if time runs out Cale would be hanged. Bobby must guide the blindfolded Cale across the planks while he himself must move to the key. He talks Cale to a pretty close spot, grabs the key, tells Cale to keep his hands close to his body, counts to three and throws the key. It lands in Cale's hands but bounces off and lands on the floor. There is a split second of horror before Cale hangs and dies.The detectives are still busy investigating the junk yard when there is an explosion. Gibson orders everyone back until the bomb squad has combed the area for any more explosives. During that time, Hoffman sends an email to Gibson, video footage of himself demanding for Jill and vague clues pointing to the new game's location. A female cop traces the email to the junk yard while Gibson figures out where the game is being played and sends in a SWAT team.Back to the game, Joyce's chain has been gradually shortening, pulling her down to the ground. Bobby and Joyce finally see each other and interact before Billy returns. Billy says that changing Bobby would be akin to "pulling teeth", which is precisely what Bobby must do to reach his wife. Two of his own teeth which have been etched with the access code for a lock on the door, this time there is no hesitation, despite screaming and bleeding Bobby works on pulling his teeth out. At this time the SWAT team (Simon Northwood, Regan Moore, Danny Lima, Bryan Thomas, etc...) arrives to the building, following Bobby's trail and coming across the dead bodies. They hear Bobby screaming and tries to save the one survivor but fall into a trap, where they are subsequently poison gassed.Bobby succeeds in pulling his teeth and puts in the code. He is finally in the same room as his wife but she is surrounded by electric wires. To save his wife, the prize and trophy of his lies, Bobby must do what he falsely claimed he did in the book - impale his pectoral muscles with hooks, hoist himself high in the air and connect two three pronged electrical wires. His wife asks what this is about and he admits that he was not a Jigsaw survivor. With only four minutes left, he impales himself and starts hoisting. Bobby is able to haul himself up high enough, and he gets one plug in his hand, but as he is reaching for the second plug, the hooks rip through his skin and muscle. He falls onto the floor and time runs out. A metal cage closes around Joyce and is quickly lit on fire, in front of Gibson's eyes she burns to a crisp.Jill is in protective custody. At the junk yard, Gibson finds Hoffman's control room and discovers a body. The body is one of the victims of the junk yard trap and he realizes that Hoffman had been present during that investigation. He also recognizes the computer screens as monitors tapped into the police security system; Hoffman has been watching them the whole time. As Gibson realizes this, a machine gun pops up from behind a desk and does a 360 while firing bullets, killing Gibson and the cops he had explained his realizations to. Back at the police station, when a morgue tech (Carlos Díaz) opens a body bag, Hoffman sprangs up and stabs him in the neck. Hoffman breezes through security, killing all the cops in his way, and gets to Jill's cell. She stabs Hoffman in the neck and, after realizing that the place is locked, hides. This time Hoffman finds her and in the struggle, he bangs her head on the table three times to knock her out. He ties her to a chair and puts the original Reverse Bear Trap on her head, and it rips her jaw open and kills her.Walking out unchallenged, Hoffman returns to the hideout, where he gathers together all of his money and some forged ID papers before setting the place on fire; destroying all of the remaining Jigsaw equipment. As he walks out to his car, three figures in pig masks incapacitate him, and the ringleader turns out to be the mysterious man with a cane, the same man in those Jigsaw survivor meetings, finally revealled to be Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes).He takes Hoffman to the bathroom from the first movie and chains him there. It is revealed that after amputating his foot and cauterizing the stump on the hot pipe so that he wouldn't bleed to death, Jigsaw nursed him back to health and rewarded him for winning his game by making him another apprentice. Dr. Gordon was, in fact, Jigsaw's most trusted apprentice, assisting with medical aspects of the traps. Dr. Gordon was also entrusted with Jigsaw's last wish-- to watch over and protect Jill, and if she is murdered, to see that her killer faces justice. Dr. Gordon takes the hacksaw away at the last moment before closing the door, preventing Hoffman from escaping the same way he did, leaving him to die. As he seals Hoffman inside what will become his tomb, Dr. Gordon closes the movie with the famous series tagline: "Game Over."

Tags: clever, revenge, violence, flashback

Review:
This movie was a huge letdown , publicity made me believe that this will be final piece of the puzzle which will connect all the previous movies, so i was at least expecting something more intelligent and a shocker twist of an ending, what we got instead seemed to be a rushed attempt to close all loopholes from the previous chapters.I followed this SAGA not just because of the gore but also the story which i thought would end in a very epic scale ,this final chapter just offered more gore and took the simplest and easiest way out of the story, It felt like wasting a 7 year long wait for a good ending and instead we get a mediocre and Pointless one..
Suffice to say, he (and his wife) quickly becomes the main plaything of this film's grand guignol torture play with 60 minutes set on the clock.Now, even with the requisite twists and better-than-expected inventiveness of its traps, "Saw 3D" does not deliver in the least with its titular promise -- it's 3D sets yet another low standard for the technology.
After so many films, so many traps, so much relentless violence and gore, it would be pointless to complain about the film's content, but beyond a few startling 3-D moments, and despite a relatively short running time, the whole thing feels like a prolonged, protracted, and downright boring exercise in this tired genre.
But much like its predecessors, it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger moment – leading us directly into Saw VII, or as it is more sadly referred to, Saw 3D.After barely surviving a trap meant to murder him, Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is out for revenge on Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) ex-wife Jill (Betsy Russell).
But Hoffman is not just out for her blood – he has set-up a new game for Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery), a survivor of a Jigsaw trap and self-help guru.If that does not sound like much, it is because there is not much to Saw 3D.
So much was tied up, answered and completed in Saw VI that this film feels merely like a film going through the motions to what should be the finale of the series.Instead of focusing on any of these characters for longer than a few seconds at the time, the film pays attention mostly to Flanery's character and a new detective, Gibson (Chad Donella).
Each Saw film hinged on one or an assortment of characters going through some form of game set up by Jigsaw or Hoffman, but there was a grand purpose in the end for why they go through that struggle.
For a ninety minute film with numerous returning characters and just as appealing brand new characters, not to mention the burden of trying to keep originality with a redundant back-story, "Saw 3D" does pretty good given the obstacles it's forced to work with.
Since 2004 audiences have flocked to watch new victims meet their demise in an inventive and cruel way while relishing the inane plot twists and convoluted story, whilst others have condemned the series as "torture porn" and nothing but sick people coming up with sick traps for sick audiences.This latest entry stays true to its predecessors and delivers over-the-top, ultra-violent death scenes accompanied by a plot full of flash backs, surprise revelations and an overuse of the main theme.
I will say; however, that the film does end well, and the story is wrapped up fairly nicely with no obvious need for a sequel (as this is hopefully the "final" film).Overall the film is very much the same as Saw VI (2009) which was also directed by Kevin Greutert.
Do NOT expect something cool just because it was filmed in 3D, cos it ain't any better than the post-conversion films.On a final note, I have never been a huge fan of the Saw series, but looking back it has been an interesting ride.
As if the world, and all its doings, was something to cheerlead for.Anyway, Saw 3D purports to be the last in the series (the words 'chinny' and 'reckon' spring to mind for some reason) - more to do with failing box office receipts than anything approaching a conscience - so, as the vast iron gears of the Saw franchise finally grind to a halt (fingers crossed), let's strap on our plastic bibs and utility mittens and get through this, one more time.Those of you who've been following this torturous soap opera will know that the keeper of Jiggy's legacy, Detective Hoffman (the delightfully named actor Costas Mandylor), has torn himself out of his reverse bear trap and is presumably looking to kick seven shades out of John Kramer's treacherous widow Jill (Betsy Russell).
After Saw 3, fan base has slowly started to decline over the years, but fortunately with the help of Saw VI, and Saw 3D's brilliant director, Kevin Greutert, the saga has come to a brilliant, yet well-deserved ending.The acting has taken a tremendous leap from the previous films, and the traps .
In return, she requests protection.Meanwhile, the prominent Jigsaw survivor and leader of a support group Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery) is abducted with his wife and friends and forced to play a mortal game to save his beloved wife and he.I hope that "Saw 3D" is really the last film of this violent franchise.
STOP RIGHT HERE, and I don't mean that nicely, because the film isn't even the least bit enjoyable to watch.Taking place where the last film left off, it shows the ever growing struggle between Detective Mark Hoffman (Played by Costas Mandylor), and Jill Tuck (Played by Betsy Russell), the latter of whom seeks protection from the police, as the two of them are engaged in a battle over the legacy of the late Jigsaw killer, John Kramer (Played by Tobin Bell).
Take a couple of dartboards, throw a dart at a board of random captives, a board of random traps, bring back previous cast members, heighten the blood and guts, add some more depth and exploration to John Kramer's back story, get lead singer of Linkin Park, Chester Bennington to feature in a cameo at the end of the film's first act, add in gimmicky 3D effects, and Voila!
You've got Saw 3D, the weakest and most generic installment of the series.This is not the fault of the actors, who honestly look like they're trying their hardest (Except for 2 or 3), but they can't elevate the film's screenplay, with logic gaps wider than ever, the dialogue too cheesy, and ridiculous narratives thrown in that don't even get much attention anyway, as they're overshadowed by the film's gore, which has become utterly repellent at this point of the franchise.
SAW 3D is the best final chapter of any horror film series.
Pros: A good storyline with plenty of twists.Some of the most creative traps to date.I really liked the scenes outside rather than always being set in the dark dingy rooms (excluding flashbacks) like in the other movies.Good ending.Cons: Some of the acting was a little off, Chad Donella (Who played Gibson) did not do a very good job, I sometimes could not tell if he was trying to be sarcastic or if it was just bad acting before including no...
Trap that aren't really original, 3d effect useless (don't go 3d if you can watch it 2d) and actor performance bellow expectations.If you loved the series, watch it cause you've been trough 6 movies so it's fun to watch how it ends, but you will be disappointed.4/10.
The utter frustration of watching these two poor saps trying to solve the mystery and get out of the room with their extremities intact was engaging enough without the need for downright ridiculous contraptions like those in Saw 3D.That being said, as bad is the supposedly LAST film in the series is, it will no doubt be better than the "reimagining" some exec will come up with five years from now in an attempt to relaunch the franchise.It's been done to death.
well that's it folks an end of an era in horror from 2004-2010 Halloween was special the saw films was so different from the typical horror cliché's and iconography of now a day's.SAW 3D was the best one for (i enjoyed all of them) the 3D wasn't great and was over advertised on the TV but what isn't apart from that the story wrapped up nicely and traps were gory ( not for the squeamish) and yet again very clever.
Fans of the Saw franchise like the realism of the blood and guts, but by using the pink it ruins it and takes away from the movie.
I don't know what some of the reviewers moan so much about...This is the type of movie that follows the motto "Expect the unexpected"...In a way I am upset with myself because a lot of time I have avoided watching a movie with a low rating on IMDb...For me this was pretty exciting...the traps were innovative, some of the scenes were incredible, the performance was pretty good especially by Costas Mandylor, the music was really nice...
Let's find out.Saw 3D (or The Final Chapter) follows Hoffman as he tries to get to Jill, Jigsaw's wife, as revenge for what happened at the end of the previous film, while a man who lied about being a "Jigsaw survivor" to become famous is tested.Let me start off by saying, this film is a mess.
It just frustrated me because every time I noticed it, it took me way out of the film.Overall, guys, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter is a disappointment.
While the acting, some story lines and the music are all as good as ever, the overall test, most of the traps, some of the characters and the pink blood really ruined the film for me, and made this a subpar ending to a pretty good film series.
I became a fan and went and watched the movies 4-6 every year and the purchased each one on DVD, and although the films got worse each year, I had faith that the final Saw would be amazing, tie everything together and end the series with a huge finale and twist.This was not the case at all, this is by far the biggest let down of a movie for me, out of every film I have ever seen, this disappointed me the most.
Thankfully, the movie wasn't as bad as SAW V, which somehow incorporated the power of friendship and team work in a universe like SAW's but still, I was expecting something great or epic since this would be the end of one of my favorite horror franchises.All in all, if all you want is some popcorn horror fun, go ahead; SAW 3D plays a lot like PIRANHAS 3D in the enjoyment factor.
The only thing which it carries from its prequels is amount of gore..and yes not to forget those traps...but it disappoints in the rest of the department...The story,screenplay,writing..everything is pathetic and it reaches to a limit from where it can't get worse...The way the series has been terminated....it could have been done easily in the 6th installment itself....but it appears that the makers just wanted to add some more money in their kitty...so they come up with it..
The 7th film in the never-ending Saw franchise follows Bobby Dagen, leader of a self-help group for 'Jigsaw survivors', as he is plunged in to another deadly game of life-or-death.
It shouldn't be any surprise to anyone that with sequels; more times than not..the more films of a (story) thrown at you that the story,plot,meaning just is diluted to the point where you question the reason why there was a sequel.The Saw series does this and goes an extra yard.The first Movie was gritty,suspenseful,gave the characters meaning...and of course had those interesting ways to torture a humans body that some people love to see.The films to follow ALL are just thrown together bits to trash that usually run about 90 minutes or more that make you scratch your head after you have spent a little portion of your wallet to watch them.Im not exactly sure what you would classify the Genre of what the Saw series is in...most likely horror of course...but ...the Saw series has tortured this genre and has sliced and diced its own reputation to bits.....
i know this was to carry the film along but i felt it took up too much of the film and all it offered was over the top gore.i don't want to give too much away but knowing Dr Gordon was back i thought it was going to be interesting, but i found his part too predictable to be true, i was still waiting for another twist afterwards only to find the credits.overall, if you like gore, this is in my opinion the goriest of the bunch, the traps were not all that great compared to all the others and the story was good but not good enough for the end of the saw legacy.i enjoyed it, but was disappointed so I'm giving this a 5/10..
It adds nothing to the story line, the characters and 1 dimensional and you don't care what so ever about them but it has some pretty interesting kills so it keeps your attention.However in the other saw movies all the blood and gore was actual make up and not CGI.
Well much hype was created about this movie,lemme tell ya this really lives upto the expectations.I reckon this is the 2nd best movie in the saw series just next to the first part.movie starts in a very cliché manner, but it really grips onto you in last 20-25 mins, and the climax is really interesting, they kept each and every small details of previous parts in mind.Some very brutal traps are also introduced but it hardly makes any difference while watching in 3D.
Mr. Greutert working with the films Saw a long time, it seems completely lost in their own tricks to earn for themselves and the company more money, so he closed his eyes with the writers on that story and his line are hidden deep in the traps and the various murders.
It laid the relationship with other characters, so he looks like a some others who nothing know about death and Jigsaw's games.And what disappointed most of all - it's the ending movie - its predictability.
There is nothing clever or imaginative about the traps and demises (a huge problem when the whole film was basically a series of them), no surprising or logical twists and the ending has to be one of the most anti-climactic ones in horrordom.Overall, what started as a promising franchise completely petered out in the flattest of ways here.
Saw VII is definitely one of the worst horror films ever,there was not one thing that I liked,other wise then that I thought the series was finally going to die of weakness,nope!
The last bastion of reason to watch a Saw film (those brutal trap scenes) are effectively ruined by the 3D.-Whereas I thought this movie was going to really wrap up the series in a meaningful way, it instead has its own plot line for 80 minutes and lazily wraps up the "big picture" stuff in the final 10.
This is a great, overly violent Saw to end this "enough is enough" franchise, but the overdone violence, in the nasty, and continual trappings, kind of detracts of takes away from the essence of the story, as if the 90 minute time frame is reliant on the gore, though I'm not complaining, I did love this Saw. Cary Elwes makes a guest appearances, limping his way through, his one loss of leg, making him one bitter dude over the years, like John Getz in The Fly 2..
SAW 3D brings a slowly declining franchise to an understandable and compelling close, at a time when even fans of the series were perhaps beginning to tire of Jigsaw's gruesome games.
(As the story goes, there was originally going to be two more "Saw" films, and their scripts had to be condensed into one when it was decided that this entry would be the final chapter.) The film does move a little too fast, and we don't get to spend quite as much time with the characters as we ought to.On the acting.
This was without a doubt the worst Saw film I have ever seen.I've been a fan of the Saw films since the start and while i think they should have ended it at the first, I've still managed to catch each one, each year, to see what kind of new ideas they have brought to the franchise.Unfortunately the ideas brought to this one were terrible.The trap in the opening scene was just ridiculous, a girl should die since she was been two-timing her boyfriend with some other guy.
So on the one hand, the movie ends the series in a satisfying manner, and that's good.On the other hand, the door is left ever so slightly open for more and more Saw films.
Without substance in the story or any of the new characters, this Saw has no real plot line to follow or development to undergo.It will be dubbed "one of the worst horror films of all time" for me.
Jill put Hoffman in a trap but he escaped from it.(GOOD TWIST,GOOD PLOT AND IT WAS A HUGE IMPROVEMENT FROM SAW 5)NOW HERE COMES SAW 3D: -in saw 3d, huge side of the plot was talking about Bobby (he is a new character to the franchise) he has the main game in this movie, but we c bobby with jigsaw in a flashback only in ONE SCENE.