After seven films in almost as many years, it’s hard for ANY film franchise to finish up with a nice neat bow on top. Saw 3D (which I didn’t actually see in 3D) suffers under the weight of it’s on lofty beginnings and pales in comparisons to the original.
So here we are, watching the “final” chapter in the long running saga of Jigsaw and his many traps and henchmen. Saw 3D picks up immediately following the events of Saw VI. Jigsaw is still dead and detective Hoffman is still killing folks. However, now his primary purpose is to hunt down John’s (Jigsaw’s) ex wife Jill Tuck. She has all the information needed to convict Hoffman and put him away forever, one way or another. To try to describe the entire plot here would require a rather in-depth flowchart that I just don’t have time or the care to make. (Maybe like this or this.) Let’s just say that by the end pretty much everyone gets what they deserve, and most all the plot holes are filled in. Some more sloppily than others, but filled none the less.
The thing that bothered me about this movie is that it was actually pretty boring. It all felt like it had been done before. One dude going though a series of tests to make it to a person at the end of the journey that is supposed to make him a better person. I would say all the “traps” are pretty tame in comparison to the rest of the series, with one notable exception. The “Fishing Hook” trap. I will save you the details, but I will say this, the level of uncomfortable-ness created by this test still makes my stomach turn. Seriously, it’s still makes me feel weird thinking about it now.
If this truly is the last Saw movie they will make, I would be fine with that. As I said, it ended well enough. Though I am sure that as movie production companies are known to do, they can probably write a hole into the plot and make another. This is, of course, what they had planned all along. Originally slated to be an eight part series it was cut short when the previous movie (part VI) didn’t do as well as the studio had wanted. However, having said that, Saw 3D was the highest grossing movie of the series. So who really knows. Though if I remember correctly Tobin Bell, the actor that plays Jigsaw, said in an interview that he didn’t want to do any more of them. Maybe that’s all part of his diabolical plan as well. I guess what I’m trying to say is no predictions from me.
The only real reason my wife and I watched this one is because we have seen all the others and felt we should see it through to the end. Weather we actually saw the real ending of the series or not is still anyone’s guess, really. It was worth watching just to see what happened, but not much else. However, I will never be able to go fishing again with out thinking of this movie. *shudders*
*Thanks to @CrazyLikeWhoa for actually finding the infographics I couldn’t*
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