The Saw movies were great fun for awhile. One would come out every Halloween, and fans would get to watch people be tortured to stone for bad things they had done. Each movie was connected, and eventually each story was woven together from one film to the next until they formed one long story. Problem was, it's hard to keep up the quality of each story when you have so many variables, so many twists to connect. I felt like the movies turned into a big mess, and the seventh and (supposedly) final movie fizzled out instead of ending with a bang.
I heard they were making another Saw movie, and I was apprehensive because of the jumbled mess that became of the franchise by the end, but I decided to give it a chance anyway. The movie was advertised as scaling back the story and returning the franchise to what worked in the beginning: a killer trying to get people to atone for their sins. The plot starts with bodies turning up along with evidence that John Kramer, AKA the Jigsaw killer, is back killing people, even though he's been dead for ten years when the movie begins.
The premise of these movies has always intrigued me. If we're honest, we humans can admit that we've all done some terrible things throughout our lives. The people in these movies never want to admit that they're respon9for hurting and even killing people, but if they want to survive Jigsaw's elaborate traps, they have to confess their sins and endure some pain in order to live.
These movies are notoriously gory and gruesome. Jigsaw's murder traps literally tear their victims apart, and it's gross and gooey. As usual, the people trapped in Jigsaw's game aren't very likeable, but that doesn't mean they deserve to be torn apart. For most of its running time, this movie is pretty good, but as it nears the end it gets bogged down with preachiness and an over-explainey killer who won't shut up, so that sours the experience for me. All in all, the movie wasn't terrible, but it wasn't anything to write home about, either.
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