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SAW
III
With
Tobin
Bell,
Shawnee
Smith,
Bahar
Soomekh,
Angus
MacFadyen
Directed
by Darren
Lynn
Bousman
To a
great
extent
Saw
is one
of the
movie
franchises
responsible
for
mainstream
torture
horror’s
resurgence.
But
what
sets
this
highly
successful
series
apart
form
the
others
is the
fact
that
there
is a
bit
more
creative
(yet
brutal)
thought
put
into
the
various
traumatic
set-pieces
of people
placed
in deadly
situations
where
their
actions
can
lead
to their
freedom
or demise.
The
2nd
Saw
left
off
where
the
terminally
ill
title
character
Jigsaw
was
left
for
dead
in the
van
and
Donny
Wahlberg’s
cop
trapped
in the
original
room
of the
first
movie,
Amanda
(the
only
survivor
in the
first
film)
actually
in cahoots
with
our
not
quite
serial
killer.
I say
“not
quite”,
because
he never
actually
kills
anyone
directly,
although
he places
them
in perilous
situations
which
could
lead
to their
deaths
(as
a lesson
for
their
lacking
respect
for
life
–
life
of which
he has
been
robbed).
In a
critical
condition,
the
game
takes
another
swing.
Amanda
is also
becoming
more
mentally
fragile.
A female
doctor
is captured
and
booby-trapped.
She
has
to keep
the
fading
Jigsaw
alive
or she
dies.
Concurrently
a man
whose
kid
was
killed
by a
drunk
driver
is put
through
a series
of punishing
tests,
yet,
not
physically.
More
victims
are
also
investigated
by the
still
missing
cop’s
partner.
As sufficiently
drab,
de-saturated
and
bloody
as always,
the
story
is deliciously
convoluted
with
some
great
tie-ins
and
surprises
–
but,
there
are
far
too
many
of the
overused
flash
cuts
coupled
with
percussive
sound
effects
and
the
cheap
loud
audio
scare.
While
a lover
of all
things
horror,
there
comes
a time
when
overload
sets
in,
and
as I’ve
said
before,
in 2007
the
sadistic
tormenting
themes
are
becoming
as stale
as the
blood
soaked
floors
in these
movies.
The
audience
is becoming
desensitized,
and
with
real
life
decapitations
on the
internet
from
the
Middle-Easter,
how
much
more
do we
need?
We may
sometimes
wonder
where
entertainment
begins
and
irresponsibility
ends,
especially
if victims
get
done
in such
slick,
cool
and
inventive
ways.
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