An average movie

To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of this franchise but since all the instalments were made available by my TV provider, I thought I might as well check them out. Well, at least, I have to admit that it wasn’t much worse than the previous instalment but it wasn’t much better either. Once again, they managed to bring back John Kramer A.K.A Jigsaw with a few flashback scenes but, at least, it didn’t take half of the running time like it did with ‘Saw V’. However, Mark Hoffman remains such an underwhelming and unconvincing antagonist (and I’m afraid they didn’t manage to really kill him off at the end of this flick). On the other hand, I did like the fact that, with each new sequel, they gave more screentime to Jill Tuck and, even though Betsy Russell is not exactly a great actress, at least, she was way more charismatic than Costas Snooze Mandylor and I wish she was the one who took over Jigsaw’s work. There was another thing that really bothered me though and it was the ridiculous number of victims in the central ‘game’. Indeed, every Saw movie has some kind of game involving several players. Of course, it is always convoluted and pretty much unbelievable that someone could set this up but this movie did reach some new heights of ridiculousness by having around 15 people involved. Seriously, how can you explain that Mark Hoffman, a guy with a full time job as a police officer, would manage to build this up and kidnap a dozen of people apparently all on his own? There is also the fact that everything is supposed to be happening within a few hours. That’s probably the thing that annoys me the most, the fact that they want us to believe that Jigsaw is super smart but everything happening in this franchise is idiotically impossible. Anyway, to conclude, at least, I have to admit that it was still watchable but I’m glad I’m almost done with this franchise.