Saw III

Saw should have stopped after I and 2. By episode 3 my interest dwindled. The torture scenes were pretty much being recycled as they tried to come up with more imaginative ways to make the victims suffer. Sadistic in a way!

After seeing Saw III I have to say that I was surprised. Few films do good in their third installments but Saw does quite well. It's got more gore than the other 2, not tons more, but definitely enough to please a horror/gore movie fan. Above the gore though is some of the sounds of the film that make you go, "That was INSANE!" There is some crazy traps in Saw III that are very good but there's always room for more sick/twisted trap ideas. It's got better acting than Saw 2, but how important is the acting anyways. Most people just want to see some nasty traps. And NASTY they are! Saw III does have some noticeable actors who are good though they aren't really that famous. Its a well made horror film. Pretty good series for 3 years in a row. Hopefully if there is a 4 it wont ruin the series, but who cares. It's like throwing out Halloween 3 and loving the rest. This one also has good twists and like the other ones I was waiting to hear that Saw theme song music and sure enough, at the end, there it was. Good Film. Well done.

Loved the first Cult Classic & loved the Donnie Wahlberg sequel & now I've enjoyed this savage part 3.

Saw 3 is incredibly clever & completely connects everything from part 1 & 2 & brings it into this brutal revenge story about a depressed grieving man who lost his little boy to a dangerous driver who got a tiny little sentence by a corrupted judge because of a cowardly witness refused to step forward & the slowly dying John Kramer uses this horrible situation to set up a new game & invite everyone he dislikes to play.

Saw 3 is really a vigilante vengeance film but in the confines of one of Jigsaws booby trapped torture buildings.

The cast is Awesome with Shawnee Smith (who gives an incredible troubled performance) & Donnie Wahlberg (back as the injured but brutal cop) & Tobin Bell (back as the sinister & smart genius Jigsaw) & Dina Meyer (back as the beautiful & troubled cop) & Angus Macfadyen (excellent performance as the grieving father) & Baha Soomekh (as the captured doctor) & all such solid performances that hold all the Horror & gritty situations together.

The look/Cinematography is grainy & raw & looks like its shot on film & the music is exciting & thrilling.

Excellently written with everything connecting & all loose ends tied up. Basically a real shocker & a thrilling sequel.

Yes this super savage sequel has really a true anger at it's core with how useless & unfair & corrupted the Justice system really is & the rage people feel & the vengeance they crave.

There's plenty of twists & turns & extremely gory scenes, so much so that i had to look at Away often lol, more extreme than the first two film.

Here sick John Kramer/Jigsaw captures a doctor who has a damaged life behind her work & Kramer wants her to fix him the best she can without going to hospital & the game is a deadly affair that puts a vengeful father through a maze of torture as he comes accross each person who let his son's killer get away with murder.

A very serious issue at it's heart & a graphic horrific tale of violence with excellent performances throughout.

Another great sequel in this savage franchise.

"Saw III" is a classic case of an ambitious sequel that has a few really nice ideas and some scenes that will make fans of the franchise very happy, but in the end it doesn't, it can't hold a candle to the original. It's a rule of the series by now that a "Saw" movie must include a lot of gory deaths as well as an unexpected twist at the end. While the first thing isn't so hard to come up with - and the makers definitely do a fine job thinking of the sickest, bloodiest deaths possible - it's the twist that seems more forced with each entry in the franchise. It's a disadvantage that we know for a fact a surprise is coming. What's worse is that in "Saw III" the final twist doesn't resolve a question we've been asking ourselves during the whole movie. No, it's question and answer in one and that doesn't make it particularly interesting. It's just a lot of explaining over some annoyingly edited flashbacks.

Speaking of flashbacks, there are way too many in this movie. We see things that we really never needed to see. Loose ends are tied up that aren't actually loose ends. It's like the writers read too many threads on the IMDb message boards for the previous movies and decided to spell out everything that has been ambiguous until now to put an end to all discussions once and for all. It only goes to show that those things were a lot more intriguing when they were left in the dark.

Jigsaw himself won't ever keep his mouth shut in this movie. The guy has thought of many cruel traps but his constant blabbering is his most sadistic device. He's already been overexposed in part 2, and this entry in the series continues to make that mistake. After the revelation about his identity at the end of the original, there really weren't too many mysteries surrounding him anymore, but part 3 still tries to come up with some (mainly about his relationship to his accomplice). Again, this is unnecessary and not very interesting information.

Considering how quickly the "Saw" movies have been made, it's a little miracle that they still turned out to be quite entertaining. However, one wonders if the franchise couldn't be better if a bit more time was spent on developing the sequels. The production values in particular could use some improvement. The make up looks fine, but the stage design makes both sequels look like an episode of "Star Trek".

So, yes, "Saw III" is as fast paced as its predecessors and the gruesome torture scenes don't disappoint. See it, if you're looking for mindless fun, but don't expect it to knock you off your feet the way the original did. Apparently part 4 is already in the works. Now that's just going to be a waste of time as "Saw III" already ends the series. Guess, Hollywood never learns. "Halloween" anyone?

i decided, just as it was getting dark, that i was going to watch saw 3, and with much anticipation (after the first two), i did just that. the movie opens up, alike the first - reintroducing the bathroom, so i wasn't feeling too bad.

the movie's a tad confusing, and i spent more or less, the whole time trying to keep the vomit down in my stomach, so that didn't leave me with too much mentality to make sense of the whole reminiscent, nostalgic, deja-vu way the storyline was written.

the whole, disgusting gory, blood thing just isn't my style of horror. thumbs up for the excellent twists though! definitely, not for those with a faint heart, or a weak stomach. maybe my anticipation of the first two, brought my hopes up a bit too high, but it really wasn't as fantastic as i expected.

go and watch it though, only if you've seen the first two.