All right, the first Saw movie was a shocker. Back then a good script that was actually clever caught audiences by surprise and became a hit. Six films later and the formula has gotten a bit stale. Unlike the new vision seen with Paranormal Activity nowadays viewers know pretty much what you’re going to get in a Saw movie, and version six is no exception to this now tired rule.
Loose Ends from Previous Saw Films Come Together in newest Splatter Movie
Broken dreams and common practices are all that this shocker has to offer. Back from the dead is master killer Jigsaw, also known as John. Novices may find bits of this movie puzzling as there are loads of very short flashbacks to the killings that happened earlier and more importantly the motivations for those assaults. Old time fans will be able to cross the t s and dot the eyes as we see messages left by John carried out with reckless abandon by his disciples.
Sick in the extreme, Saw VI gets off to its usual start of people trapped inside ingenious torture devices and having to get free. Believe it or not somehow the world’s financial crisis comes into play here as the riddles keep coming along with the gruesome dispatch methods that simple are follow-ups to all those earlier shocks that turned more than a few stomachs.
Actors and acting here take a back seat to dismemberments and other horrific scenes involving mutilations all in the hopes of survival. Whether a seventh Saw gets into production will be debatable as it looks like this series has run out of steam.
Talented Actors Take a Back Seat to Gruesome Fits of Violence
Among the actors trapped in this death wish are Tobin Bell whose creepy as ever as the demented Jigsaw and Costas Mandhlor (Beowulf) who takes law enforcement down a notch as a police investigator. Other cast members who may or may not fare better having this film as a credit on their resume include Shawnee Smith (The Island) and Betsy Russell whose good looks get a workout here.
Director Kevin Greutery will not support those who have a thing for sadism and lots of blood in yet another story of vengeance and depravity masking as nobility. Long and repetitive with not much new to offer Saw VI deserves a short life span and may signal the final conclusion to a sick trend that likely has outlives his usefulness if it ever had any redeeming values.
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