Such a frustrating disappointment

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

So this is the final chapter, eh? Good thing I didn't see this before last year, because I wouldn't have been able to joke about yep, they made another sequel! Jigsaw once again gets top billings even though he's been dead for four movies! They once again just use flashbacks and recordings, but at least unlike slasher movie villains, he stays dead. This film features the next victim being forced to let his friends and family die for lying about escaping from one of Jigsaw's traps.He shows this off with hook scars on his chest. Since he never actually went through the trap...how did he get those in the first place? As my main man Deadpool said, "Well, that's just lazy writing". I'm amazed at how 3D was hyped so much at this time and am so glad Ebert reminded us that it adds nothing to the experience. The movie ends by revealing that Dr. Gordon from the first film was Jigsaw's true apprentice the whole time, which kind of makes you wonder why he had Hoffmann as an apprentice at all. It's even more depressing than usual, as nearly everyone, good or bad, dies or suffers in this movie. *1/2

Not predicting human behavior very well, the creators of this film believed it to be the last of the franchise so they went more for spectacle while dropping significantly in quality. Jigsaw murders happened way more frequently and some of them are used as a disturbing performance art in public spaces. The first trap has two competing lovers trying to decide who will sacrifice themselves for the woman they both claim to love only to let her be sawed in half. Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) was unable to kill Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) who escapes and sews his face back together. Jill goes to the police hoping to expose Mark but she's haunted by nightmare after she confesses. Several traps play out ass Jigsaw takes his revenge on racists and liars. Detective Gibson (Chad Donella) is the only police officer Jill can trust. He discovers another Jigsaw trap that is overly outlandish and receives a taunting message from Hoffman. Bobby Degan (Sean Patrick Flanery) leads support groups for Jigsaw survivors and promotes his survival story as a memoir. He is confronted by Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), a survivor of the first film. Bobby is then assaulted by a pig-masked figure and wakes up in the main trap of the film. It turns out that Bobby had been lying about his story of survival so he must go through a series of tests. He has to pull a fish hook out of his publicist's stomach through her mouth without making a certain amount of loud noise and prevent a machine from piercing the eyes of his lawyer by lifting another painful device. Bobby is not very good at saving any of the victims.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com

SAW THE FINAL CHAPTER is the last of the SAW movies to come out before the tragic death of Amy Winehouse. She was only 27 years old. SAW 7 is in 3-D which means that if you wear special glasses, it's almost like you're right there with them. In this movie, Carey Elwes, who in the first film had his foot cut off in a manner similar to Kunta Kinte, is back, and is no longer suing the studio. But while Kunta Kinte had his foot cut off to keep him from escaping the horrors of slavery, Carey Elwes cut his own foot off because Jigsaw told him to. He works for jigsaw. It's worth mentioning that in every movie, the person who can't bring themselves to condemn Jigsaw for his actions is the one who is secretly working for him. It tells the story of Bobby, who has lied to the public about the nature of his Pectoral Scars. SAW3D (they should have done something with that title and the word "sawed") follows the late Chester Bennington, the lead singer of Linkin Park, who plays a racist that his to tear off all his skin, get it. One of the traps is cage, that Bobby has to swing out of, over some comically large spikes, because HE LIED. Bobby sucks, and can't save anyone, so they all die. All of them. At the end, we get to finally see the Reverse-Bear Trap put to good use, just like father always wanted. HIGHLY Recommended.

This seventh chapter of the Saw series is billed as "The Final Chapter". Whether the series producers are true to their word (remember, the FOURTH Friday the 13th film carries the same billing) doesn't really matter all that much anymore. The story has been effectively driven into the ground with this terrible effort.There are so many things this movie does wrong that it's easier to just use a list to describe some of them:-The acting is atrocious. I'm not just talking in comparison with the other films. The acting in this one is some of the worst I've EVER seen.-Because it was made in 3D, the graphics are cheesy and the gore effects are all pinkish and over-the-top. The last bastion of reason to watch a Saw film (those brutal trap scenes) are effectively ruined by the 3D.-Whereas I thought this movie was going to really wrap up the series in a meaningful way, it instead has its own plot line for 80 minutes and lazily wraps up the "big picture" stuff in the final 10. Even the big "surprise" in the final minutes actually turned me off instead of provoking the desired "wow" effect.Essentially, a franchise that once re-invented and then rule the horror genre couldn't find a way to go out on a high (or even decent) note. The series should have ended after the third part, instead it muddled around in 4-6, and then dropped the final "stink-bomb" here. Avoid this film at all costs and remember the "good times" of the series instead (go re-watch 1-3).