Strictly average movie

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Greatest franchise ever. ok this one i was skeptical on. but after watching it makes me want more and more.

As a horror fan I'm a bit suprised the Saw saga wasn't popular the way it wanted to be. And in all honesty I cannot blame anyone (specially after what SAW 5 and 6)However, you cannot deny that the original Saw saga, altough a little bit messy and sometimes over the top, had a clear storyline that wanted to keep with twists and turns at the end of every movie, finally closing the circle with Saw 7 in almost a poetic way.Well, this one puts it all on the trash, pees on it and burns it. Then tries to sell it to you like a sequel that's also a reboot and somehow does not mess with a timeline that's already hard to follow without this atrocious movie existing.But who cares, let's have gore right? Wrong. You can complain whatever you want about any of the previous Saw traps, but these ones are not only unoriginal and rehersals of past ones, they're just plain dumb and one in particular which happens in a windmill is given to chance. On top of that they're all CGI, and not a good one. (Yes people, we are talking worst than the CG deaths from Saw 7). Also, they use futuristic gimmics and gadgets, let me put you in perspective: In this universe there are some whimsical flashy blue lasers that can cut flesh and bone in less than a second. Yes people, is that bad and looks straight from a Resident Evil Movie.The twist, well, to say the less is stupid, nonsensical and not even original.Save the money and time I didn't, and PRAY that they didn't made back their budget.

I went in with a preconceived notion of this film based on the trailers which I admit is something I need to stop doing. I am a fan of the original Saw - as it was an excellent concept for a horror film. Then came Saws upon Saws and I lost interest as it kept going through the Studio System "Money Grab" ploy. But then, this one came out, and while it had the same 'sorta' predictable elements - I waited until its cable debut to watch. And I grew interested as the story unfolded. For me, this is not a bad installment, or a jump start into a new idea based on an old one. What was better for me was seeing Tobin Bell reprise the iconic role and not rely on the "Jigsaw" tag, but what started out as a good concept to begin with. No need to call him..Jigsaw. But please feel free to call imitators that if need be. And that is the point.As I watched this I started thinking that the filmmakers were playing the audience for fools - a real big suspension of disbelief - to think that what inevitably happened to John, didn't. But I scored this high for the way the Speirig Brothers...actually didn't. So it got me there.To be realistic, it comes down to what you are watching this franchise for...is it 'the games'? The equation of morals? The paybacks? Trying to figure out is this good or bad or somewhere in between? I find it's a bit of all of it and it comes together, even if it can be slightly predictable at this point. But this one had an ending that I didn't quite see coming in the way it did, and it made me checking this one out, more worthwhile than I would have thought.

So a fresh start, with a throwback and still one major player from the whole franchise. But how you may ask? Are they mad? And wasn't it definitive what happend to Jigsaw in Part 3? And while this may be the one Saw that does not depend too much on you having seen (m)any of the previous entries into the franchise.And as was usual with the movies, you know the movie tries to trick you to believe in certain things, just to pull the rug from under you. Now that twist does not work for me and I think there are more holes in the story than in a swiss cheese. But there are also the usual traps and deaths and the suspense you go through with all the characters involved. So while it's not the best entry (imho), I reckon you can watch it - there are still stories to be told, the question is if there is still that much of an audience if you don't radically change certain things ...