Movie Review - “Saw 3″
** STARS
The first “Saw” movie was a superb gore-fest. It utilized the shock ending perfectly, and brought in a new age in horror movies. The main baddie “Jigsaw” has now earned ranks in the villain hall of fame along with Pinhead, Michael Meyers, Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger.
Unfortunately this movie doesn’t bode well for the franchise. “Saw 2″, although entertaining, hinted at the slow decline of these films. There is already rumblings of a “Saw 4″, which I am not looking forward to after viewing “Saw 3″.
In the first two “Saw” films “Jigsaw” somehow escapes his own demise, yet he plows through innocent people with glee. In this movie his appearance and longevity in the film is implausible. The whole premise of the movies wears thin after a while. We can only stand so much torture and rotting corpses with no plot to be seen.
The plot has more holes in it than Swiss cheese, stinky Swiss cheese. you don’t route for anyone to get out of the film alive, you pretty much give up like most of the victims in this turkey. Gross is one thing, silly and all over the map is something completely else. This movie is a mess, and not for the obvious gory reasons.
November 5th, 2006 at 10:32 am
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