The original Saw was an extremely low budget horror movie with plenty of nasty traps and a massive twist at the end. When it made a truckload of money, a sequel was quickly planned and brought out; and, whilst not as good as the original, was still pretty good and kept the original's gore-filled premise, lots more nasty traps and another twist. Again, it did well and has, to date, spawned a further four sequels. I've seen the first two, but no more, so thought I'd catch up on the series before VI is released later this year.
III sees Jigsaw, the main protagonist, still on his deathbed but still controlling his little games in which people either discover the true value of life or die. With more traps (although many, many fewer than II), Saw III really didn't seem to be particularly scary or jumpy, unlike the first two. It felt more like a link into the next part of story being built by the series to me and is nowhere near as gory as it's predecessors. Having said that, it did have the series' traditional twist ending - a small twist that was easily seen coming followed by a much bigger one that was mostly successfully masked by the smaller twist and paves the way neatly into Saw IV.
My rating: 5.8 / 10
IMDB rating: 6.3 / 10
Running time: 121 mins
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