Saw X

Saw X

Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps.

  • Released: 2023-10-25
  • Runtime: 118 minutes
  • Genre: Crime, Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Tobin Bell, Renata Vaca, Paulette Hernández, Joshua Okamoto, Octavio Hinojosa Martínez, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Michael Beach, Costas Mandylor, David Alfano, Donagh Gordon, Baltimore Beltrán
  • Director: Kevin Greutert
 Comments
  • saibabboo - 19 June 2024
    Disappointing, watch if you must
    // Spoiler Alert! //

    I had such high expectations considering the previous Saw movies I've watched but this one was an honest bummer.

    Such a dragging thriller with unnecessary drama and dialogues. They lowered the bar they set for John Kramer to be a weak sick terminal patient who drives himself to being fooled, believes in a treatment just by visiting a link, gets this close to give up his jigsaw passion to be a nature physicist (bummer 1), he gets conned (bummer 2) so easily and he gets revenge in his style.

    Makes a bad decision to seemingly get conned again during climax with dragging dialogues, but wait, the jokes on the villain for believing it. JK wins again.

    The plot is so predictable, JK getting conned this easily is like a doctor giving lollipop to a child before injection. He need not be portrayed this naive or weak.

    So many morals, lengthy dialogues, honestly killed the jigsaw thrill experience, you almost forget that few people got killed since the drama around it is overflowing. Out dated killing styles, no creativity. It's like a below average thriller TV movie that you can skip and happily save time.
  • juan-uk - 2 May 2024
    Running out of ideas
    The movie started off OK then it went on the slow side for longer than it should until the 30 minutes when we discover the fraud and the action starts but then it quickly goes into a series of unrealistic and opportunistic scenes where every just happens at the right time or it's coincidence and up to the developments of the lasts scenes which were a bit far fetched.

    In normal circumstances I would say we have reached the end of the sequel but if we check the box office stats we can quickly see that this movie was a big success as a business with a low budget of only 13 million but collecting worldwide more than 110 millions thanks to a clever marketing campaign, so it made 10 times what it cost so I won't be surprised if we see Saw XI soon enough because it's a money making franchise.
  • Platypuschow - 8 March 2024
    Saw X: Back from the dead
    Plot

    A sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable.

    Cast

    Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith and Ragnarok's Synnøve Macody Lund shine.

    Verdict

    I'll be honest, I haven't enjoyed a Saw movie since Saw III. I thought Spiral breathed a small amount of life into the series but not enough to make it credible. Much like Final Destination they pounded out movie after movie each less inspired as the last! A dead franchise in my opinion. Hearing about another I couldn't have been less excited and after the watching the trailer and seeing it was a prequel had me confident this would be another bland uneventful final nail in the franchises coffin.

    I'm man enough to admit when I'm wrong, and here I was wrong.

    I don't like prequels, I deemed this a dead franchise, but somehow someway against the odds they delivered a decent enough film and I'd argue the 3rd best overall behind the original and part 2.

    I just love how unexpected it is, you defies logic and reason and provides an engaging tale and one that doesn't rely on shock value or gore like many of those that game before did.

    Good job, now I'm open to more.

    Rants

    I like Shawnee Smith, my first experience with her was as the crazy girl in the original The Stand (1994) but her presence here seemed strange on account of how much older she looks here then last time we saw her. They used no effect to make her look younger and the timeline subsequently made no sense. I know such things shouldn't matter but movies are about immersion and that took something away from it here.

    Breakdown

    Surprisingly decent plot Solid performances by many of the cast Has breathed new life into a dead series The Shawnee Smith age issue is annoying.