Being a Saw fan can be tough. The original is legendary, the sequel is a pretty solid follow up and the third I've always felt fleshed out more about what we needed to know about John Kramer and what his big scheme about becoming Jigsaw was really all about. The rest of the entries in this franchise were really not to bad either, they just lost touch with what really made the first few really great horror/torture flicks. The story. After the fourth push into the not-so-happy world of traps, gore and people deciding if they still valued their lives or not-the franchise took a nose-dive straight into "all traps, no plot" territory which started to make it all feel so pointless and empty. The eighth entry into this masquerade so boringly titled Jigsaw sees itself really just being another add-on to an already tired series that makes me sad to say...but just needs to end already. This film doesn't really bring anything new to the limb table that hasn't already been severed, and packs none of the grit, tension or ugly feelings that form in the bottom of your stomach like they did while watching the earlier Saw films. The traps felt so uneventful and watered down and I truly didn't give any shit at all if any of the characters in this particular set of games even won or not. It just felt lazy. And the Billy Doll this time around actually made me laugh instead of invoking fear. Yeah. It looked fucking cartoony. He looked like he could have hung around Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck before going on set with his red tricycle. Even he was phoning it in this time.
Run Forest, run!
This is a dumb joke, but I think Buckethead set this trap up.
Jigsaw always wants to play a game.
An off-screen kill in a Saw film? That's disappointing.
Man-that Billy Doll has no grit or tension behind it at all.
"Who's doing this to us?" Where have you been, woman??
Careful and precise like the game of Operation.
The website for Jigsaw is on the dark web and Eleanor didn't use a Tor browser to visit it. Ugh, God.
I don't think you want to see Eleanor's studio.
What a surprise-it wasn't John Kramer's body in the casket.
Oooooh shit! What a reveal!
There are some parts of Jigsaw that are solid. The traps are pretty decent, especially at the beginning where the main people in the game are chained up with a metal "bucket" on their heads and get pulled towards the other side of the wall where saw blades are running. Wasn't scary or frightening at all, I just thought it was cool. There are some nice twists as well that I was kind of expecting, and they actually levitated this picture a little bit beyond what the final feeling of this film ends up at. In all seriousness, Jigsaw really didn't need to be made. Hell, even past the third picture in the Saw franchise didn't even need to be made. Zits and zombies, this truly is just a serviceable piece that really doesn't do to much to flesh this series out more. This is for keeps for die-hards only. Now I want to play a game.
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