Saw III

Plot synopsis:
The aftermath of a Jigsaw game is discovered by a SWAT team. The victim, Troy, was meant to rip chains from his body in order to escape from a bomb. Lieutenant Daniel Rigg calls Detectives Mark Hoffman and Allison Kerry to the scene. Kerry, who is guilt-ridden over the disappearance of Eric Matthews, points out that the room's only exit was welded shut, breaking Jigsaw's modus operandi of giving his victims a chance to survive. That night, while reviewing the videotape, she is abducted and awakens in a harness that is hooked into her ribs. She manages to retrieve the key from a suspended beaker of acid and unlock it before the timer expires, but it tears her rib cage apart anyway, killing her.
Now bedridden from cancer, John Kramer instructs Amanda Young to abduct Dr. Lynn Denlon from her hospital. She is brought to Kramer and instructed to keep him alive until the other victim has completed his game. As Kramer explains the rules, Amanda locks a collar around Lynn's throat that connects to Kramer's heart rate monitor and will detonate if Kramer dies or Lynn moves out of range. The other victim, Jeff, awakens in a box in an abandoned meatpacking plant and learns from a microcassette recorder that he must undergo tests which will lead him to "the man responsible for the loss of his child". Jeff has become unstable and vengeful in the three years since his son Dylan was killed by a drunk driver, and is now estranged from his wife and neglects his daughter Corbett.
Jeff's first test leads him into a meat freezer. He finds Danica Scott, the only witness of Dylan's death, who refused to testify in court; she is naked and chained at the wrists between two poles which begin spraying ice-cold water at random intervals. She manages to convince Jeff to help her, but freezes to death before he can retrieve the key. His second test leads him to a vat, at the bottom of which Judge Halden, who gave Dylan's killer six months in jail, is chained at the neck. The vat slowly fills with liquefied pig corpses, but Jeff reluctantly incinerates Dylan's belongings in order to retrieve the key and save Halden. His third test brings him before Timothy Young, Dylan's killer, who is strapped to a machine that will twist his limbs and neck in turn until they break. The key is tied to the trigger of an enclosed shotgun. Jeff eventually tries to free Timothy, but taking the key discharges the shotgun and accidentally kills Halden, and Jeff is unable to stop the machine before Timothy's neck breaks.
During an improvised surgery, in which Lynn removes a piece of Kramer's skull to relieve pressure on his brain, he hallucinates about another woman and declares his love out loud, distressing Amanda. She leaves, and flashbacks show her time with Kramer, as well as her abduction of Adam, which left her guilt-ridden to the point she gave him a mercy killing out of guilt some time after his game. In the present, she reads a letter addressed to her which drives her to hysterics. As Lynn confesses to Kramer that her ordeal has given her new appreciation of her family, Amanda returns with the news that Jeff has completed his tests, but refuses to remove Lynn's collar. She reveals that she no longer believes in Kramer's philosophy, and has designed her traps simply to kill, including Troy's and Kerry's. She also fought with Eric Matthews after he escaped the bathroom by breaking his foot; she implies killing him, but Kramer believes she left him to die.
Refusing to listen to Kramer's warnings, Amanda shoots Lynn in the back just as Jeff arrives. He retaliates by shooting Amanda in the neck with a gun provided by Kramer during his tests. As Amanda slowly dies, Kramer reveals that Lynn's test was actually hers: aware of her modus operandi, and unwilling to allow a murderer to inherit his legacy, he decided to test "her will to keep someone alive"; to this end, he told her nothing about Jeff and Lynn, including their marriage. Kramer then addresses Jeff, offering to call an ambulance for Lynn if he accepts one final test: he can choose to kill Kramer or forgive him. Jeff tells Kramer he forgives him, but then slashes his throat with a power saw. The door to the sickroom seals itself as a dying Kramer plays a final tape, which tells Jeff that he has failed his test by killing Kramer, the only person who knows Corbett's whereabouts; to save her, Jeff must play another game. The tape ends as Kramer dies, and the collar promptly detonates and kills Lynn, leaving a screaming Jeff trapped in the sickroom with the three corpses.

Tags: gothic, murder, violence, flashback, clever, insanity, revenge, sadist

Review:
"Saw III" is a classic case of an ambitious sequel that has a few really nice ideas and some scenes that will make fans of the franchise very happy, but in the end it doesn't, it can't hold a candle to the original.
It's a rule of the series by now that a "Saw" movie must include a lot of gory deaths as well as an unexpected twist at the end.
The make up looks fine, but the stage design makes both sequels look like an episode of "Star Trek".So, yes, "Saw III" is as fast paced as its predecessors and the gruesome torture scenes don't disappoint.
Now that's just going to be a waste of time as "Saw III" already ends the series.
I highly recommend fans, and anyone who loves a good gross-out horror movie buff to see this latest Saw installment..
Well, after watching Saw 1 i was really looking forward to Saw 2, which as far as i am concerned wasn't as good as Saw 1 and my hopes for Saw 3 went down, but last night i got a free pass from my friend for an advance private screening of Saw 3.I can promise you one thing this movie is just like Saw 1 and has everything and loads more of gore than Saw 1 & 2.The acting particularly is good, but its the story and the plot that is extremely well written and of course the Twists again like the first 2 are huge and much much much much more enthralling and shocking!
the movie opens up, alike the first - reintroducing the bathroom, so i wasn't feeling too bad.the movie's a tad confusing, and i spent more or less, the whole time trying to keep the vomit down in my stomach, so that didn't leave me with too much mentality to make sense of the whole reminiscent, nostalgic, deja-vu way the storyline was written.the whole, disgusting gory, blood thing just isn't my style of horror.
They feel organic, they all connect smoothly at the end and make sense as to why.If you've seen a SAW film, you know the story is going to have twists, turns, and violence/gore to accompany them.
The slow pacing allows you to gradually absorb everything in, and this makes it all the more better.There is a lot of extreme gore in this film, but unlike some other installments like Saws IV and V, it's done very well and serves a purpose.
Moreover, the revelation that the horror isn't over, and what you feel as a result, drives home the Shakespearean tragedy in a very personal way because you the audience have to keep enduring it.SAW III is clever, solidly written, has the best characters, succeeds with the emotional aspect it was going for, and ties up loose ends perfectly.
I thought Saw and Saw II were great; you don't usually get gore and good plot twists in the same movie.
The parody element fundamental to the first two installments is in short supply in "Saw III", deliberately inserted into only one scene-the pig rendering trap.Checking my watch every ten minutes I kept hoping that something would happen to give an interesting tilt to what I had already seen, as had happened in the first two.
Every time something happened that was meant to scare people I either was filled with a, "Is that the best you can do?" feeling or I laughed.The acting has not gotten any better and by the end of the movie I was really getting tired of hearing Jigsaw say he wanted to play a game.
If you want to see gore or be truly frightened, look elsewhere because Saw III definitely does not deliver on either point.I should have went to see The Prestige instead..
Even once the full picture is revealed, there are still a few good twists and blindsides.The second saw movie was more like what I was expecting - gratuitous gore and violence.
As I saw the first 2, really liked the first, found the 3rd OK and heard that this is pretty gory I thought I give it a shot.Straight to the reason of my vote, those 3 stars are ONLY for the gross-out value of this movie.
Even if you don't, this movie has way too many stupid scenes and is sometimes so unrealistic to be considered even remotely good.I don't feel writing down everything that p***d me off, so I'll just elaborate the worst of them all.I guess that brain tumor gives Jigsaw the ability to look into the future or to mind control others.
Well please God let that be the end of it, I have not been that exhausted by gore since The Passion of the Christ.It was a ridiculous twist ending that seemed to have been thought up on the spot by the director with utmost contempt for the intelligence of his audience..The Saw movies seemed to be the exception to the sequel law of diminishing returns however part III ensures that this trilogy will be confined to horror aficionados and teenage gorehounds rather than fans of clever story lines and the fiendish traps..Shame really...
I read the reviews on IMDb, and all but one appreciated the movie, so I went to see it, knowing that there would be blood and gore; but also expecting that there would be an interesting story line.For the first time I saw that in Amsterdam there was an usher who was checking the age of audiences through their Identity cards.
After leaving this movie, I had the feeling that Saw III was just trying to compete with Hostel for gore-factor.
The first Saw was great, and definitely is considered one of the best horror movies to recently be released.
It's a good movie to see on Halloween, and I guess some people may be be awed by the gore, but the MPAA will only allow so much, so don't get your hopes up.
Saw had a moral at the end of the story; "Don't take life for granted." The morals of the Saw II and III are "With the right marketing and advertising, you can make millions of dollars off of garbage material." If one positive thing is to be said about this movie it's that the marketing and advertising team involved are FU*&ING GENIUSES..
I could stand the first two; they were watchable, I even thought the second one was better than the first, but when I heard a third 'Saw' movie was being released, all I could do was shake my head in disgust.This movie is rated 'R' for a good reason.
A continuous helping of stylised gore, violence and torture where the only tongue in check will be one that is literally chained there in a macabre and psychotic trip that needs no justification other than an audience demand for video-nasty type scenes with the slightest pretence of psychological storyline to justify prolonged physical and mental cruelty that makes the Nazis look uninventive.The moral dilemmas seem pretentious in the extreme - a lovely doctor is forced to save a monster's life or be killed herself.
Sadly, after so many films of this ilk have been made (particularly ones with the sophistication of say Hostel or Audition), Saw III loses much of its shock value and is little more than a late night gore-fest to wind up the series.
Above the gore though is some of the sounds of the film that make you go, "That was INSANE!" There is some crazy traps in Saw III that are very good but there's always room for more sick/twisted trap ideas.
This one also has good twists and like the other ones I was waiting to hear that Saw theme song music and sure enough, at the end, there it was.
Actually, there were more film-goers there than I had invasion, and I was shocked that there were still as many people remaining when the credits rolled.Saw III is a much too long, much too ridiculous, much to gory, and not at all frightening piece of B-Movie-with-money trash.
The two-hour movie would have been thirty minutes if all flashbacks were eliminated, I found myself thinking this film should come with a warning label that says, "This film contains 25% new material." Its amazing the amount of places that the audience is told Amanda (Shawnee Smith) back-story and what she has done to "aid" Jigsaw in the past.
Saw III tried to be so amazing by having a lot of twists to the plot, well lets just say when the plot is bad enough you can't really make these huge twists to it.One positive thing i guess is the massive amount of gore, but even that does not make a horrible plot good.Overall the movie just wasn't that amazing if you are a fan of good character development or even amazing traps I suggest to just watch the first two over again..
If u have seen Tobe Hoopers "Texas Chainsaw.." classic, and remember it had a blonde female character that screams a lot in approximately 30 minutes somewhere in the movie, then just imagine seeing that in a 2 hour cocktail like Saw 3.
Please God Close The Book On Saw. 8/10OK before you ask I'm not making this up i have seen saw 3 (went to the cinemas last night ended up watching Texas chainsaw massacre the beginning which was OK very predictable and basically everything i expected just more gory) anyway through some contacts i got invited to watch saw 3 some of the staff were watching it late night.Hmmmmm OK its hard to comment on the film much because i really want to tell you the main spoilers but would get shot.......all I'm saying is half the people on the saw3 board are making spoilers up from what I've just read.This film reminded me more of saw 1 than of saw 2.
Yes the film does answer most of the questions people want to know about the entire series and at time is flashbacks before the original saw.The traps seem to unrealistic unlike saw 1 where the traps were accepted as being able to pull off.
Putting people in big mechanical traps considering jigsaw is basically near his death in this film seemed very far-fetched but this is another long awaited saw film so who cares.The gore was more violent in this film and i think at times was not needed because the original saw was implied horror you didn't actually see much apart from a few quick shots of blood.There are quite a few twists in this film and i recommend watching saw 1 and 2 before seeing this one just so you fully understand certain characters relationships to the past character.
Basically this is still a class film and the twist although is very good didn't seem as shocking as the previous two films but was well written and remains a strong trilogy.OK not Leigh or James writing the next film then there should NOT be saw 4.......this film just about pushed the franchise too far but was really great to see jigsaw back in action but didn't seem as original as the past 2 films.
I was a little bit disappointed to be honest at the way SAW 3 ended but it could of been a lot worse i suppose but still a great film which i was expecting way to much from..
The only reason these movies are still being made is because people (like me) continue to pay good to see them.For all of you who love these terrible excuses for cinema, no worries the movie perfectly sets up Saw IV..
It crosses the line between acceptable and something that you would find on the black market showing real torture scenes.It has a totally confusing, complicated plot that twists and turns like the bones it breaks in the movie, leaving the watcher scratching his head with "What just happened?" The torture scenes were disturbing to say the least, but I wondered through the whole movie how the killer could have such precision timing even though he was on his death bed.
None of them developed well, I didn't care what happened to them, and in the end, I was relieved to just see the final credits.If you have $3 dollars, don't rent this movie...Use it to buy paper, a pen, an envelope, and a stamp so you can write to the people who thought this film was a good idea and tell them thanks for nothing..
While not being a huge horror fan I immensely enjoyed Saw 1 and 2 basically for their intelligent writing and great plot twists.There is a fine line however from creating an intelligent horror flick and just writing a gore fest, this was quickly crossing that boundary and losing what was great about the previous 2 films.
It used the age old solution to creating todays movies, either shock the audience or wow them with special effects.If you took out all the gore from the film there would be very little of a movie left and it certainly would not warrant a release, as the story and acting alone are not enough to carry it.
Yes, there is still some dialog, but it gets lost in the movie between the scenes of gore that drive saw 3.
Don't waste your time hoping for another Saw. This movie is intellectually devoid on every level and is only good for mind-numbing violence..
Vile Pap. I never did see the point of the Saw movies.There's no real point to any of them.You know that whatever people do they are going to suffer, plenty of gore but hell it's only latex n sh!t and since the main characters are neither believable nor likable the viewer has about as much interest in watching their fates unravel as watching paint dry.
Now that was a much better movie.I advise fans of this series to watch this movie once, it's all you'll need.And for those who've never seen any of the Saw movies, avoid this like the plague.
Although, Saw III has a plot with as many twists and turns as the other two movies, it could never bring me to the edge of my seat.
More often than not, it shows things with incredible graphic detail which might make you turn your head away more than they'd make you scream.Great writing fuses the two parts together beyond the ending you'll probably see coming and does manage to tie everything up so the typical cop-out ending for other modern horror films doesn't apply here which has always been a strong point for the Saw series.
i can honestly say that i was thoroughly disgusted with myself after seeing this film, and i was a huge fan of the first Saw. i do not understand why nobody has been able to make a legitimatly scary movie in years.
Some Film Critic Somewhere, Sometime, said Something like...We have to watch these God-Awful Movies so You don't have to.
And I can hardly understand why people find SAWIII such good film...First of all, throughout the movie I kept asking myself how one that is obviously in a very bad condition (the killer) has the power, wit, logistics, money to come up with all the mechanic torture devices.How is he or Armanda able to get the victims where they are?
OK, there was something greater going on with Armanda but that did not convince me.SAW I had the most striking final seconds a film can have.The ending of SAWIII is just terrible sad and drama-like.I did find the film to be entertaining because of my latent voyeurism - watching people die is one reason we watch horror, but if it is reduced to this one basic concept it does not succeed to fully entertain me.Since SAW IV is already planned, even SAWV: I wonder what sense this makes?
The concept is pretty much dead, and the ending of SAWIII somewhat makes it hard to continue the story.Sorry guys, this was a disappointment, However if you enjoy watching people die by sick torture-devices, this is for you.
Saw II = wow, for once, a movie is just as good or better than the original.
But if You have already watched parts 1 and 2 then Saw III will be like Christmas to a child - full of wonders and surprises.I had counted myself to those people who thought the second part to be lame.
I entered the movie theater to see Saw III with great expectations.
Holy crap.While I was a huge fan of the first 2 Saw movies, I could not understand why people thought they were so gory.
The thing that the writers did in the Saw trilogy is kept making the next movie better.
I certainly can't, as Saw III (just like its predecessors, possibly the two worst films ever made) takes the title as worst film of 2006.The reason why the Saw franchise is considered great by the fans that believe in it because there is essentially no difficult content: there's blood, guts, and gore right in your face, plastic dialogue, screaming, yelling, and predictable plot twists explained at the end of the movie instead of having the viewer feel free to interpret things on his or her own.
First off i was never a fan of the Saw series, i found them to be just another cliché dumb horror movie.
When i ask people about the saw movies what is so good about them they all answer with how gory and cool it was.
Saw III, good movie, but nothing special.
We keep feeling like there's supposed to be more to the story, more to the action, more to the violence and the horror, but there isn't.This third installment in an otherwise brilliantly frightening series of movies insults the audience's intelligence in the execution of its twists, it ends too quickly to be affecting, and its plot itself seems forced.