Critics Consensus: Saw IV is more disturbing than compelling, with material already seen in the prior installments. Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman. Critics Consensus: Jigsaw definitely won't win many converts to the Saw franchise, but for longtime fans, it should prove a respectably revolting -- if rarely scary -- diversion.
Critics Consensus: Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise.
Critics Consensus: Spiral: From the Book of Saw suggests an interesting new direction for the Saw franchise, even if the gory sum is rather less than its parts. Jackson , Marisol Nichols. Critics Consensus: It won't earn the franchise many new fans, but Saw VI is a surprising step up for what has become an intricately grisly annual tradition.
Critics Consensus: Saw ensnares audiences with a deceptively clever plot and a myriad of memorable, nasty set pieces, but its lofty ambitions are undercut by a nihilistic streak that feels more mean than profound. Directed By: James Wan. Eric Matthews is introduced as another victim who in the end gets kidnapped by Hoffman for a future game, as revealed in a flashback from Saw IV. Besides that, there isn't much that happens that is relevant to the overarching plot of the series.
The movie's point seemed to be about establishing that Amanda was actually evil, even if the story revolved around her getting a reckoning against Eric Mathews for wrongly accusing and jailing her for a crime. Amanda's games start off as a disaster because she no longer believes Jigsaw's traps actually change people, even though she was one of them, and starts making traps that are impossible to beat.
Jigsaw eventually has to put her through a test so that a straight-up immoral murderer isn't in charge of his legacy, which she fails, getting them both killed. Mark eventually finds the bodies of Amanda and the original Jigsaw. The autopsy scene is actually the last scene in the canonical timeline for this film, culminating with Hoffman finding a tape inside Jigsaw's body telling him that he will be tested still.
In Saw V , Jill is given a tape by the police from her dead serial killer husband with a list of instructions for her to follow, which come into play in the series again later. The traditional shock twist ending sees Hoffman escaping police pursuit to set up the conflict in the next movie. Mark lets Jill know he's taking over the position as Jigsaw, which does not ring well with her as she has instructions to kill him from John.
Fittingly this was probably the test John forwarned Hoffman about. William meets a horrible end and Mark goes back to the scene only to get jumped by Jill who puts him in a reverse bear trap, much like the one he designed for Amanda in the first Saw. However, Hoffman manages to escape it. Mark Hoffman and Jill Tuck are battling for the title of Jigsaw. The actual test taking place in 's Jigsaw , which sees five people—each with a horrible secret—wake up in a deathtrap-filled barn, is actually one of the very first games orchestrated by John Kramer, taking place well before the events of Saw.
In terms of the main, current-day storyline being told by the Saw franchise, James Wan's original film is the starting block.
However, as revealed through many, many subsequent flashbacks, this isn't even close to Kramer's first trap, and by this point, he had already recruited two conspirators: Amanda Young Shawnee Smith and Mark Hoffman Costas Mandylor. The film's actual Jigsaw test, eight people trapped in a house of horrors slowly filling with poisonous gas—Daniel and Amanda Young among them—is presented as happening concurrently, but actually took place a few days prior to John being arrested.
Soon after, Cecil became Jigsaw's very first victim. John Kramer finds out and recruits Hoffman to his cause. We also learn Amanda Young was partially responsible for Jill's miscarriage, information that Hoffman used to blackmail Amanda into murderingDr.
Instead, the plot feels like vengeance from beyond the grave, as the CEO is forced into brutal games where he must choose which of his employees will live or die, as his cold, calculating policies become death traps. On the lore front, Saw VI finally reveals the contents of a letter we saw Hoffman leave Amanda in Saw IV , which we first saw her read in Saw III , and which it now turns out concerns events from before the first film.
The 3D conceit alone made the promise of gore essential to the marketing — plenty of guts fly directly at the camera! At least it has an interesting central character, Bobby Dagen Sean Patrick Flanery , who poses as a Jigsaw victim, makes money off TV and book deals, and leads group therapy sessions for victims from other films.
The film nominally pays off a theory fans had been discussing for years: Without buildup, it reveals the sudden apprentice twist that Dr. Gordon has been working with Jigsaw ever since he sawed off his own foot in the first film.
Of course, Gordon had been absent on screen for six entries, so this twist is revealed through flashbacks to nearly every preceding film. Gordon also has two other pig-masked apprentices in tow. After releasing a new Saw film on seven consecutive Halloweens, the franchise lay dormant for another seven years — until its relaunch in Half the story follows five victims walking through a barn full of comically elaborate traps, while the other half features more boring cops and a pair of medical examiners trying to identify new victims.
A timeline twist for the audience reveals that even though the events in the barn are crosscut with the police investigation, they actually happened a decade ago. The film features a number of complicated, Rube Goldberg-esque traps which are all brightly lit, and more silly than scary.
But Jigsaw loses the signature gritty, lived-in feel. Everything is a bit too clean and polished.
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