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
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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.
