Even if you binge all seven in a weekend, you'll still need to be checking Wikipedia to understand certain flashbacks and references.įor instance, Saw IV takes place during the events of Saw III (which you don't realise until the very end), Saw V starts a minute after Saw III ends, the end credits of Saw VI reveal an event that took place between Saw II and III, and so on. Even more so than the Fast & Furious series.

The Saw horror series is the most twisty, timey-wimey and downright confusing franchise ever. To those who have never seen a single one, it's fair to assume they're simply gore-porn nonsense with little semblance of plot.īut my friend, you would be wrong. After one survivor has tearfully explained that her ordeal made her a better person, someone who hasn’t learned their lesson snaps ‘you know what’s the best thing about being made to cut off my own arm? Handicapped parking at the mall.For seven straight years from 2004 to 2010, the Saw franchise kept churning out sequel after sequel, all of which were solid hits at the box office. There are one or two ingenious challenges, though repetition has dulled the original charge of these Mouse-Trap-With-Gore set-pieces, and the beginnings of a nice idea in the self-help group for mutilated veterans of previous sequels. However, this middling effort suffers from a thinly-conceived main thread about bogus celebrity (though Celebrity Saw remains a great idea) that has less resonance than last year’s assault on the American medical insurance racket, a bucketful of leftover plot threads about the feuding heirs to Jigsaw’s trap business – will Hoffman avenge himself on Kramer’s widow (Betsy Russell) and can you remember who all the players are? - and the relative absence of the dead-since-Saw III real Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). This year’s Saw is in 3D, which makes for some buzzsaw-in-your-face and guts-splattered-on-your-glasses action, but is one of the less satisfying entries in the hardy franchise, and certainly a step down from last year’s much more pointed Saw VI.Ĭary Elwes, the doctor who lost a foot back in Saw, returns to the series (cuing another explanatory montage that fills in more of the evolving backstory) and something we’ve been threatened with ever since the first film finally happens (spectacularly and messily).

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