The final chapter of the series, Saw 3D is a nonsensical and gratuitous horror film. After failing to kill Hoffman, Jill Tuck seeks police protection; meanwhile Hoffman sets up one final Jigsaw trap for a motivational speaker who’s been lying about being a Jigsaw survivor. Cary Elwes’ much publicized return proves to be underwhelming, and none of the performances are really that good. The traps are also rather unremarkable, and don’t have the same kinds of stakes or challenges that those of the past have had. Additionally, the special effects are really cheesy and the gore is cartoonish. Going for cheap scares, Saw 3D is a disappointing conclusion to a seminal horror series.
The seventh Saw movie is the low point of the series for me so far. This is mainly due to the 3D effect, which has no added value here and, in the end, also ensures that the 2D version is unbelievably ugly. The blood is not red, but rather pink. On top of that, the camera work is really lousy this time. You can't expect much from the actors in "Saw" anyway. Costas Mandylor and Betsy Russell are as bad as they were in the previous film, and Cary Elwes likewise disappoints. This time, even Tobin Bell contributes nothing to the plot. The traps in "Saw 3D" are equally tedious, resulting in a highly unpleasant viewing experience.
Just after Part VI delivers another strong outing and a potentially solid conclusion to both the second trilogy and the series at large, Part VII comes back in as a clear cash grab and the worst of the whole series so far. It relies almost entirely on the blood and loose story to carry it until its runtime. It’s almost an entirely not needed entry, but here we are. I’ve still seen it 5-10 times and I’ll never skip it. Understand that my review here is the lowest of the franchise but bias is still bringing it way up.
Rating: 2/5 - 65% - Not Recommended to Everyone
Worth it for getting to see Adam and Lawrence again:broken_heart:
10/10
All Gold
WELL, IT WAS NICE TO SEE
THE GOOD DOCTOR BACK ,
SORT OF. THIS INSTALLMENT IS NOT
THE BEST ONE BUT IT STUCK THE LANDING
AND WENT OFF WITH A BANG AS THE DOOR GETS SLAMMED. (I Love that).
THE TRAPS WERE BRUTAL AND BLOODY,
BUT WHAT WAS UP WITH THE COLOUR OF
THE BLOOD (SOMEONE FCUKED THE DIY)
COS THAT WAS SOME FUNKY LOOKING BLOOD,
LIKE ONE DOWN FROM CGI BLOOD,
LOOKED SHOCKING.
(Also so the post credit scene of
the last installment went nowhere,
the little girl surviver never told
no-one what Amanda said to
her about not trusting Hoffman,
Well the person who saves her,
so as cool as the post credit scene was
in the last movie it was ultimately
pointless).
THAT ASIDE I LOVED THE MESS THIS MOVIE
MADE AND THE STATE EVERYONE ENDED UP IN
I MUST ADMIT THAT WITH THE STRING AND FISH HOOK GOT ME MOST OF ALL,
MADE ME SQUIRM THAT DID,
WOW...JUST...WOW...
PACING WAS GOOD ENOUGH AND THE PLOT TWIST
I NEVER "SAW" haha COMING.
HOFFMAN YOU SLIPPERY LITTLE BASTARD
(I was starting to root for the guy).
MOST PEOPLE ANNOYED ME TILL
THEY GOT FED INTO THE MEAT GRINDER,
THE TRAPS COULD HAVE BEEN BETTER AND MUCH MORE INTERESTING BUT THEN AGAIN HE WAS NEVER AS PROFESSIONAL ARE AS IMAGINATIVE ARE SKILLED AS JIGSAW WAS,
SO THIS WAY ACTUALLY FITS THE
STORY BETTER
(YOU HAVE TO USE
TEMPERED STEEL YOU KNOW).
THAT LAST 30MINS WERE PRETTY AWESOME TBH
AND EVERTHING DEFINITELY GOT DIALED UP TO 11
TO ROUND IT ALL UP.
I THOUGHT THEY DID A GOOD JOB
AT KEEPING IT ALL TOGETHER, Hm mostly.
KUDOS TO ALL INVOLVED FOR
THIS BRUTAL AND OVER COMPLICATED
UNIVERSE
10/10.
(All that's left to say as
I continue with
2017 "JIGSAW"
for my
31 days of Horror
(October 2023)
is for me to say one final time......
"GAME OVER"
as i slam my room door shut lol haha....
Only to open again on the Reboots.
THE GAME CONTINUES
very nice of hoffman to design his traps with 3D photography in mind
Is it just me of this movie feels like a p*rn parody? Maybe it's the acting, or the pink blood, I don't know. Anyway, worst movie of the series.
The only trap that made my stomach turn around was the one were Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery) has to pull on a tiny cord with a fish hook and a key at the end, sticking out of Nina's (Naomi Snieckus) mouth. The key is all the way down in her intestines. Bobby has to pull that key out to safe her. Somehow that trap got to me. Never thought that would happen.
Anyway, in Saw 3D we see that they try to bring everything together and finish of all the loose ends. We see old faces, new faces, brutal traps, a little bit of Tobin Bell, Chester Bennington screaming as he is glued to his car seat, still miss him! A public SAW trap which was awesome. And loads and loads of blood.
It might not be groundbreaking, and every saw is basically about the traps (Except for the first one). But I enjoy this franchise. The first Saw is special, the rest are entertaining. I wonder how the reboot by Chris Rock will be. I wonder what kind of direction it'll take. Well I can only wait to find out!
“Remarkable... if not a little perverse."
I watched all 6 movies just to see what happens in this and I have to say I am disappointed. The flashbacks of the previous movies come around to bite this one in the ass. Jigsaw, how dare you die in the third film and leave us with these weak villains.
Do you like these movies? You should be OK with this one.
Finally finishing out the series for my 31 Days Of Horror - hoping that they stick the landing...
Kind of fun in a train crash way, but nothing of value beyond that. They set up an interesting meta commentary on Saw fans and possible Jigsaw defenders with the meeting only to drop it immediately. So much of the film is devoted to the weakest game in the series, with a bland protagonist, that Hoffman barely gets anything. Speaking of, I spoke fondly of the slasher influence some of these movies have, but you didn’t have to bring in the misogyny.
After a franchise that’s mostly been equal opportunity and detached identity wise, it’s like this film was written by the final victim of the carousel from the last one. The opening trap parades in it, with a cheating harlot in the most sexual outfit there’s ever been, boobs bulging boobily from her straps, and a woman was actually naked in one of these traps in 3. One trap is about how women just don’t shut the fuck up, with the protagonist screaming that at the victim after her death. The wife is literally called a trophy and killed off in a horrific way to hurt the protagonist. And Jill Tuck’s steely strength that complimented John’s is drained away to make her an utter damsel, reduced to screaming and begging and called a cunt while getting her face slammed into a table. It’s not pleasant viewing!
And that’s not getting into the weakest array of traps, the pink blood, the laughable 3D tells, the franchise worst performance of Gibson and that is a high bar to clear… and Gordon. Overestimating the importance and power of him without the emotional core of Adam, he’s just here to be the twist, and Elwes has never phoned it in harder. It cheapens what made the first film work- that bond between him and Adam- by suggesting he’d work with the man who ushered in his death. It’s hard to think of a level on which this film does work beyond marveling at the trainwreck. The franchise should’ve chronologically ended with 6, and the trap killing Hoffman, and in my heart that’s where it did.
Since I've grown older and wiser and more critical of films, there's a kind of invisible "barrier" that keeps me from truly enjoying and engrossing myself in almost any horror franchise. It's not a barrier I deliberately created, and it's really not enjoyable at all when you just want to kick back and let yourself get sucked down the black hole of horror, but it's there and I can't arbitrarily remove it or set it aside; it just IS. It may also explain (to me and anyone else who bothers reading my little scribblings on here) why the original Saw movie does - and probably always will - rate as one of my favorite horror films of all time and undoubtedly the best in this entire franchise. That invisible barrier is "believability" and when I watch almost ANY horror movie, especially modern horror films, the biggest problem I have with almost every one of them is the simple fact that the actors rarely convey that sheer terror/horror/shock/revulsion, et al that you know would be present if such a situation (or creature, as the case may be) were to ever present itself in real life. In the case of the Saw franchise, the original movie is the ONLY one where I personally feel the primary actors conveyed the desperation, fear, and hopelessness that anyone in such a psychotic event would probably feel. Donnie Wahlberg gave a very good impression in Saw II of a policeman/father whose hands were seemingly tied as he alternated between violence, threats, and sobbing. Apart from those portrayals, however, my biggest problem with the entire Saw franchise is the lack of ability to portray the mind-numbing horror that anyone would feel who had actually had to endure one of these "traps". Here, in Saw: The Final Chapter that lack (of portrayal) is even more glaring as one of the primary characters, Sean Patrick Flanery (as "Bobby") can't even sell a moment of grief, horror, despair, hopelessness, or (in what would probably occur in real life) lapse into a gibbering mess on the floor and just give up. He's hurting, he's watched people that were close to him die (and/or otherwise get mangled somehow) and yet, apart from a little shout or exclamation of pain, he shows nothing other than "Can we go ahead and get to the next scene please? I need to be somewhere..." It's not a "character portrayal", either or else it would come across as such. This, however, just comes across as someone who doesn't really want to be in this film, doesn't know HOW to portray the character, but he's signed a contract so let's get this over with. Same can be said for almost all the rest of the cast in the rest of (at least, up to the sixth installment) the Saw films. Costas Mandylor (as "Hoffman") did an excellent job portraying a cold-blooded vengeful cop who's now using Jigsaw's methods to cover his own sadistic streak, but other than him and Tobin Bell (and Cary Elwes, as "Dr. Gordon" in the original Saw ) few have exhibited any real depth of terror or fear at what's happening. Some of the victims, even, as they near what they know is going to be a gruesome, excruciating death can't pull off displaying stark raving lunatic terror...a mind that's about to snap from the madness they're gazing into. I don't know...maybe I'm TOO critical, but this one, Saw: The Final Chapter , is really glaring at me and it's hard to ignore. So is Chad Donella's hobbled performance as "Gibson"; he doesn't have to portray terror or fear or anything but for pete's sake, he can't even play a good detective. I don't know if the producers were just on a tight budget, a tight deadline, or just too cheap to demand quality, but so far, this one has been the worst of the worst. It's always weird to watch a "3D" movie in "2D" as the touted 3D effects come across as weird or distorted; such was the case in at least some of Saw 3D (aka Saw: The Final Chapter ) but fortunately it wasn't ALL weird. Couple of the 3D scenes just didn't really work in 2D but several of them either "worked" or at least didn't seem to screw things up. As a story, however, this walked a tightrope (not very successfully) between a decent storyline and some really cool traps. (And let's be honest: The traps are why we watch these films in the first place.) There were some really gruesome traps here (not gonna name 'em; just watch the movie) in Saw: The Final Chapter but, as in its two preceding movies, this just felt, through the majority of the film, that it was more about "Let's get to the next really gory trap and not worry so much about the story." Kind of a disappointment because the story had all the ingredients to be a really GOOD story, but it just felt rushed. Additionally, the special effects looked much cheaper here. Not sure who/what the difference was but the realism in the previous movies was glaringly missing here. Body parts, skin, blood, wounds, etc... all looked like it had been thrown together in a kindergarten classroom with a lot of silly putty and red paint. Nowhere near the quality of the first few Saw movies. I'll keep watching as I go through the entire franchise as a build-up to Halloween 2023 but I hope there's a turn for the better. As it stands right now, this installment - although having some of the best Jigsaw traps - was the least enjoyable so far.
The most traps we've had yet in a Saw movie and I enjoyed all of them. The quality for the effects wasn't as good as usual but it's still pretty good. The movie shines whenever there's a game on-screen, it really entertains and does it's job. Anytime there's no game and the story is brought to the forefront, I vomit. Absolutely awful! Barely any Tobin Bell as Jigsaw too. Dumb ridiculous twist that came out of nowhere, who even asked for this? Can we just scrap this story and go for something new??
Traps Ranked (worst way to die order):
1. Brazen Bull - not burning alive, but COOKING alive! Hot damn!
2. Public Execution Trap - a saw slowly cutting into your belly. That's got to be one of the worst pains imaginable
3. Fishing Line Trap - you have to pull out a fishing hook from your stomach to your mouth. Absolutely horrible. I rather die
4. Horsepower Trap - this one was epic! They were all in a bad spot
5. Impalement Wheel - three spikes running through your eyes and mouth. Only lasts for a few seconds until you die but outch
6. Lawnmower Trap - falling on a bunch of lawnmowers. Not quite an instant death
7. Reverse Bear Trap 3.0 - third time's the charm. Great gore. Instant death
8. Pain Train - a blade in front of a train, running you over. Looked like instant death but the effects were bad for this one
9. Hangman's Noose - instant death
10. Wisdom Teeth Combination - pulling out your wisdom teeth. Fuck no! At least i'm not eligible anymore. Doesn't kill you though
11. The Hooks - inserting two hooks into your skin, pulling yourself up after. Not the worst thing, considering
12. Suspended Cage - wouldn't want to fall on those spikes. I don't think it kills you though
Everything looked fake as fuck omg love it
2-bit 3D effects, Dollar Store sets and a dime store storyline make this undeniable money grab look cheap.
The game plotline is pointless, the police storyline devolves into generic slasherism, the twist at the end is silly and fanservicey, and the opening trap is the worst of the series.
A cluttered mess.
Wow, what a difference to the rest of the series. Honestly, what was the point to all this?
If you let Hoffman die in the last film, or maybe even let it be ambiguous, that would've been a perfect ending. You could've even have weaved Dr. Gordon into that one for a twist but honestly...this was drivel.
The only good scenes in this were the opening trap and Chester Bennington's cameo. The rest was the most pointless thing I've seen...There was barely a story. The main game was boring as everyone was insufferable anyway.
Just a poor show.
Review by MalusBlockedParent2020-10-14T17:09:07Z
A terrible ending to a legendary saga. Nearly everything from the previous six movies, let alone Saw VI, is dropped to make this as much as a self-contained movie as possible. Dr. Gordon is introduced in the opening scene, we see Jill put Hoffman in the Reverse Bear Trap from the end of Saw VI, and there is a group of survivors from Jigsaw's previous traps that are nothing but cameos. Every other character in this film is new and exists to be killed off sometime later. No character development, no emotional attachments for anyone, nothing for the viewer to feel. The characters have as much build up as a character from any A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, or Halloween film has. What the producers had made was as close to a generic slasher as a Saw film can be. In short, this film was made for the casual audience who came to see a 3D horror movie, not the fans who followed the series since the beginning. If there's still any doubt about this claim, producer Mark Burg even said in an interview with Reuters that "even new viewers will be able to follow and get caught up to speed."
So what exactly makes this film so bad besides essentially making it a standalone? As mentioned above, the characters are cardboard cutouts of previous characters. The "game" here is modeled after Jeff's game from Saw III, but there is no emotional attachment that can be seen on the screen. Whereas Jeff had to burn his son's possessions to get a key in Judge Halden's trap, everyone in this game is just a person Bobby works with. He has no real connection to them, and it can be seen on screen that these people don't affect him the way judge who gave a light sentence to a murderer, a drunk driver who killed a child, or a woman who saw it all and did nothing do to the man whose life was ruined by them. Jeff had rage and hatred in his heart. Bobby has nothing. To add to this, the traps are some of the worst in the series. One of them resembles a machine at my gym, complete with weights. All the creators did for this was add a woman who will be killed by three attached spears if Bobby fails to hold the weights up for long enough. Another trap would kill someone in real life if attempted to even try and save the victim. A trap near the end was an idea for Saw IV that was rejected.
To add to how poor this game is made, it barely serves any point to the plot. It does have a little bit of a point, but it could have been rewritten to have much more meaning than it does. As it is, it's 95% an excuse to do two things: (1) have people in traps and die and (2) help the film reach its 90 minute runtime. The characters are hollow and flat, the traps are poorly designed and even illogical, and the game serves no major purpose for the film's main plot of Hoffman chasing after Jill for trying to kill him at the end of the previous film. Adding further insult, the characters in the game haven't done anything actually evil. None of them killed anyone, none of them ruined anyone's life, none of them tried ending their own lives. Their crime is promoting Bobby Dagen as a Jigsaw survivor when he, in fact, is not. Jigsaw goes after people who have done something morally evil. One of the characters in the game is Bobby's wife who is not even aware his story of being a survivor is a lie. That doesn't follow Jigsaw's philosophy, and no point for this is ever made. It is merely bad writing.
To end it all, the film concludes with a "twist" that was literally predicted by a fan on the now-defunct House of Jigsaw web forum back in 2005 with the release of Saw II. This movie has no director's cut as the extreme script changes and producer interference made everyone involved from director Kevin Greutert to writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan want to finish this project and get away from it as soon as possible. This movie is simply a standalone movie for casual moviegoers and is an insult to the fanbase who has spent money over the past years on merchandise, movie tickets, DVDs/BDs, music, and more. However, I will end this review on a positive note as there are a few good notes about this film.
Kevin's directing, despite being forced by a contractual clause in an effort to derail Paranormal Activity 2, is still solid. His mastery of the craft is evident with the garage trap (feat. the late Chester Bennington of Linkin Park) and the way the camerawork adds to the intensity of the scene, added to by the wonderful score of Charlie Clouser. This also applies to the opening trap of the film known as the public trap. These are the only two traps really worth watching, although the final one is sometimes fun to watch as well and not for its terrible 3D effect of blood coming at the camera. If this is your first time watching Saw 3D, make your expectations as low as possible. It might reduce the sting of how horrifically this ends this saga in the series.