Saw Saga REVIEW

Screenplays by Leigh Whannell (Saw, Saw II, Saw III); Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II); Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D)

Directed by James Wan (Saw); Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV); David Hackl (Saw V); Kevin Greutert (Saw VI, Saw 3D)

Starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Costas Mandylor & a lot more...

So when the Saw franchise started off (we didn't know it would be a franchise for starters) mostly everyone was fascinated with the new horror flick. It had an original plot, the enough amount of scares and bloody situations to attract fans of the genre and let's face it, an amazing twist ending that left more than one with their jaws dropped (I include myself in that category). I consider myself a fan of horror movies and so I was glad, and kind of worried that they were going to produce a couple of sequels for this little Saw gem... but of course they didn't stop there, of course they HAD to make 6 sequels... damn.

Let's start off with the cast and Jigsaw itself: Tobin Bell is a sufficiently creepy lead, I admit that, even if the real creepy star is his nightmare-inducing doll and its tricycle... yikes... Amanda (Shawnee Smith) is a cool add to, she made the story more interesting... and I guess with a couple more exceptions I could say generally the cast is wow... kind of bad... yes, I am talking to you stupid male lead from Saw 3D, you were TERRIBLE. 

Okay, I got a little derailed there, hehe... But you can see where I'm going, my point is that even do the Saw franchise started off well, it was predictable that it would ultimately burst in to flames and kill us all with it. But let's be fair, I actually had a lot of fun with most of the sequels, which is something. Nothing ever toped the first installment, but Saw II was a good campy bloody gory film that also featured a great twist ending and some pretty disgusting new traps. Of course the disgusting new traps kept on showing up, every time more gross and more disturbing than the last one (check out the trap involving pigs in Saw III... yuck).

Talking about Saw III, it wasn't as fun as Saw II, but it was far more disturbing, and it was still kind of acceptable... except for lead guy Angus Macfadyen, I hated him so much, he was like REALLY annoying. And also, the twist wasn't that big this time around... Now moving on to IV and V... something went wrong here... they were okay but... who ever thought it was a good idea to give the writing job to Dunstan and Melton, creators of the 'oh so awful I want to rip my head off' Feast? Bad call people... IV was fine, but lacked credibility and moved too slowly, V... does anyone even remember what happens in V? It was a very entertaining movie, but completely irrelevant to the story.

Safe to say that the twist endings are pretty much dead by now, which is sad... I mean they try, but, we don't like them. However, Saw VI was a surprising big improvement from the past couple of films, it was more complex, it had more history, the traps were way more clever, anyway, they got our attention back... so this Halloween we actually got excited to go check out the new SAW 3D, which from the trailers looked extremely cheesy, but we had our hopes. Man did they let us down.

Saw 3D is beyond terrible. The screenplay is AWFUL, absolutely retarded, the cast is even WORSE, they literally wrote the most stupid characters ever and cast very ridiculous and bad actors to play the roles.  The use of 3D is kind of pathetic except for the opening credits, how lame is that? And wow, don't even get me started on the most predictable twist ending ever. What a way to ruin the series... I mean, after 6 movies we endured... this is how they decided to close the franchise? Sad. Just plain sad. I'll pretend it ended in Saw VI and invent a better ending of my own, thank you very much.

Saw 82

Saw II 71

Saw III 64

Saw IV 57

Saw V 58

Saw VI 73

Saw 3D 32

OVERALL 62

PS. Please don't make more Saw films. Thanks.