Saw 3D

To be clear, I like the Saw franchise, some of the entries more than others, yes, but so far it has quite impressed me and the craftsmanship has remained at least at an average level (and let’s be honest, which horror franchise with more than five entries can boast about something like this? Likely none). That said, I can’t like the seventh and last part of the series. It’s not because of the craftsmanship (Greubert is fairly competent) or because there isn’t enough blood (the originality and number of traps is above-par), but because the script of Saw 7 dishonours all the story so far. I could accept the lapses of logic throughout the film, but the nonsense that wants to be the twist of the entire saga really outraged me. I don’t understand it, I don’t believe it, it must have been put together by some teenage fan with an IQ close to idiocy (from below) in a discussion forum without any logical basis other than the argument that “it’s shocking”, and the clueless creators read it and used it because they didn’t know how to get out of all that. This is a very unsatisfactory conclusion for Saw. (19/11/2010)

I actually admire the writers for the fact that even for the seventh time, they manage to come up with a twist that turns everything that happened before upside down. Regardless, for the umpteenth time, I have to wonder at the insanity of the minds of the trap designers. I’m also not even sad about the fact that no director is able to rise above the subject matter and inject some perspective into it. Yet the combination of so much marble combined with blood splatters á la Jackson's splatter films (the color of blood included) does entertain us in the "other" way. (02/09/2011)

A series squeezed to the last drop of any bodily fluid. The confusing script tries to put together randomly collected characters from different parts, overturns some plot twists, and not only destroys the ending of the sixth film but sometimes also the atmosphere of the entire saga. The weak positive aspect is the tragic main hero Bobby in Flanery's sympathetic interpretation, but that is where the praise ends. On a strongly poisoned one-star, which is a sad disgrace for this once sympathetic bloodiness. (06/01/2011)

This installment is now completely pointless... just senseless killing. I feel like it was only made for the sake of 3D. (10/05/2011)

"Saw 3D" is a tribute to the whole series, but that also means it is a rather unresolved, unfinished film. It feels like they have been searching for a successor to Jigsaw throughout the entire movie, which is actually what they are doing, but the screenwriters get tangled up in it and you have the feeling that they are just spinning around in circles, struggling to pick up the falling ball. The exhausted, overplayed and, let's be honest, repetitive trickery no longer saves it. The open ending clearly urges for another installment and I hope that if it happens, it will be without any more flashbacks. (17/03/2014)