I am totally convinced that there is no such thing as a decent third installment to a series of horror films. On Friday evening Jinhui and I trekked over to our local movie theater to check out the third film of the Saw series. The first two films had been creepy and kind of made me want to take a shower after seeing them. This third one was just disgusting.
Watching this movie was more like watching Faces of Death or one of those medical documentaries on the Discovery Channel. Perhas this is due to the fact that there was an extended scene in which a doctor cuts open a dude’s skull to relieve the pressure on his brain. This was the most disturbing part of the film, but was ultimately not scary at all…simply stomach turning.
The other traps in the film ranged from sadistic and overly cruel (a pointlessly nude woman in a freezer being sprayed with water) to rediculous (a man chained in a vat that was being filled with dead pigs that were first liquified). None of these traps were particularly frightening…though they did make me question the minds of the people who created them for the film.
But my (sarcasm)favorite(/sarcasm) part of this film was the use of flashbacks! I’d say a good 30 - 40% of the film consisted solely of flashbacks. There were flashbacks to Saw. There were flashbacks to Saw 2. But my favorite of all the flashbacks were the ones that showed us something that happened in Saw 3 a meer ten minutes before…just in case we forgot.
This film was pretty much a complete waste of time. There was nothing of a storyline, being a horror film the acting was…well none of the actors are going to walk away with an Oscar for this film, and perhaps the biggest problem was it wasn’t even scary. Disgusting? Yes, but nothing in it was scary. There was no Friday the 13th / Volvox creepy sound effects. There were no spring loaded cats. Just pointless gore. Do yourself a favor and skip this crap.
