At this point in the franchise, I have to wonder, did they have an end game in mind, or were they gonna keep popping out movies until they ran out of ideas, or until the fans had had enough. This one gets a little silly, but it will get worse later.
The first major downfall of this movie is that the lead protagonist is this dude, Agent Strahm, and I think his character sucked. One of the big reasons that part 3 kicks so much ass is that Jeff is a great character, not in that you are pulling for him, but he is a full character. Agent Strahm, he’s generic and boring, and that is a shame. Strahm is tracking down Hoffman who is Jigsaw’s supposed last apprentice. I want to point out that the guy who played Boggs in Shawshank Redemption, the guy that wanted to fuck Andy’s sweet ass, well he is in this movie.
As usual, there’s 2 stories going on. Strahm’s pursuit of proving Hoffman’s involvement and doing some hardcore investigating which leads to an interesting path at the end. Simultaneously, we have 5 strangers playing a game amongst one another. They think it is about survival of the fittest, but Jigsaw encourages them to go against their instincts. So let’s tackle this plot aspect as it is pretty decent I think.
The first room has the 5 people in their own little stall thingy with 2 blades neck high and they are tethered by a collar and cable to their necks. In front of them are glass cases with keys to unlock the collar. The problem is that the cables are part of like a pulley system, so only one can go at a time. The smart dude goes first, and then they struggle and take turns, but never really cooperating. As you can imagine, one girl doesn’t make it to the key in time and gets decapitated. The next room has some glass jars attached to the ceiling, so the smart guy takes some pole or club, starts breaking them open. Inside are keys. 3 of the keys allow you access into these huge ass drain pipes with grates so that when the timer ends, you avoid the explosion. Well the 2 bitches get their keys, the douche bag guy ends up with the last key after some chicanery and my smart guy dies. The next room has a tub and 5 electrical things, and you have to have them conduct electicity to get the meter up so they can make the next room. White bitch kills black bitch. They dump her ass in the tub, attach all the cables to her and electrocute the hell outta that corpse. The last room, they finally have their revelation. There are 5 slots for you to put your hand through, lets it get sawed up, let out so blood, fill up the vile and exit the room. But why 5 slots? All along they weren’t supposed to be killing each other, they were supposed to work together. Nobody had to be decapitated. 2 people could have fit in the drain pipes. If everybody had taken a minor shock, they would have survived, and then everybody would have had to leak just a little blood and everybody could have lived. Nice TWEEST.
The ever popular opening scene death was nice too. A dude is strapped to a table, and a pendulum blade starts lowering. He has to stick his hands in these vices that will crush his hands if he wishes to be released. Call me crazy, but I’m taking death over losing both of my hands. I feel your quality of life would be beyond awful with no hands. Another scene involved Strahm being in a room where his head was in a glass tank and water filled up. He took a pen, punctured his throat so he could breathe. It was neat. It makes me wonder what muscles and feeling it would be to have to not breathe through your mouth or nose, but through this hole in your throat.
The final showdown between Hoffman and Strahm ends when Hoffman ends this glass box that recedes into the floor and then the walls close in and crush Strahm in a pretty gruesome way. This movie is the epitome of the parts being infinitely better than the hole because there’s a lot of dumb boring shit that really detracts from the awesome shit. Although I still liked this, I have to say it was the worst one up to this point. Giving it a 6.5.
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