Horror Movie Review: Jigsaw (2017)
After seemingly ending with Saw: The Final Chapter in 2010, the horror franchise was unearthed for another round of games in 2017. Does anyone still care?
After seemingly ending with Saw: The Final Chapter in 2010, the horror franchise was unearthed for another round of games in 2017. Does anyone still care?
Saw: The Final Chapter or Saw 3D or Saw VII 3D sets out to close the franchise out (temporarily) by tying up the loose ends and seeing Jigsaw’s legacy complete. Does it manage it?
The game is coming to an end as the net begins to close around Detective Hoffman. Will he be able to finish Jigsaw’s work or is he part of a game himself?
The games continue in Saw V as Detective Hoffman attempts to continue Jigsaw’s work all while carefully covering his own tracks.
Jigsaw is dead…but the games are just beginning. Saw IV attempts to tie up loose ends but the formula is beginning to come across tired and lazy.
Keen to capitalise on an audience seemingly hungry for more, the third film in the long running Saw franchise was released just one year after the last film. Saw III had Darren Lynn Bousman in the directing seat for his second Saw film in a row, the story coming from both James Wan and Leigh Whannell.
For many this is where the ride started to get rocky but is Saw II really as bad as many would have you believe? The short answer is no but the long answer requires more analysis.
Two men wake up in a dilapidated bathroom chained to pipes on opposite sides of the room. They are part of a game designed by the twisted mind of Jigsaw.