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I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since it was available on the KPN pluspakket, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, if you would believe the other reviews for this movie on this website, it seems to have a decent reputation but, to be honest, I really struggled to care about the damned thing. At least, I have to admit that it wasn’t some complete garbage though. Indeed, the fact that I saw the previous installments during the last couple of weeks helped me to see the connection with all the movies and it was pretty neat to see all these returning characters (I did struggle to keep track of all these cops names though: Rigg, Hoffman, Strahm, Perez, Matthews, Kerry). It was also interesting to show John Kramer before he became Jigsaw but I’m not so sure if it was a great idea to give yet another explanation on why he became a serial killer. I mean, the terminal cancer thingy was already intriguing enough and, since he had brain cancer, you could argue that his tumor was making him doing some crazy sh*t. However, by making him losing his child on top of that, it actually really changed how we view this character. Anyway, that was pretty much the only things that worked for me though. Indeed, in my opinion, the story was just a convoluted mess, even more than with the previous installments and I’m not sure I completely followed everything happening during the 3rd act. Eventually, the whole idea of this franchise is to show that Jigsaw is incredibly smart. However, all his plans, tricks and booby traps are just way too far-fetched so nothing happening seem hardly believable and, as a result, I just didn’t care much about what happened to all these poor characters. Another thing that bothered me was how they brought up a 2nd accomplice. Indeed, with ‘Saw II’, it did work fairly well with Amanda because they took their time to explain her backstory but, with this new sidekick, it was however completely random. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was still watchable, I thought it was still rather weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.
5/10
