As I went in to see Saw 3D, I grabbed a regular pair of 3D glasses, and passed on the special Saw 3D glasses. That was my first mistake. Maybe the special Saw 3D glasses filtered out the suckiness. Sean Patrick Flanery stars as Bobby - a Jigsaw survivor who has gone on to fame and fortune as he counsels other survivors and promotes the book he wrote about how the experience changed his life for the better. His publicity has caught the attention of Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), the man who cut off his own foot in the first Saw movie (also known as the GOOD Saw movie).
Also, a bitter fight to the death has broken out between Jigsaw's widow,
Jill (Betsy Russell), and the man who had been working with the evil
serial killer, Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). To protect herself,
Jill has gone to the police to help them capture Hoffman, and an old
friend, Detective Gibson (Chad Donella), has been given the assignment
of protecting her.
Why is Dr. Gordon interested in Bobby?
Who will live - Jill or Hoffman?
Saw 3D is anything but a 3D movie. Sure, they will charge you 15 bucks for the ticket (which I paid for with my hardly earned money), but it's not worth it. The amount of 3D in the movie is infinitesimal.
I was able to watch most of the movie without my 3D glasses, and noticed very few scenes are in the format. Even the ones that are have very little impact, and didn't elicit screams of joy or horror from the crowd. Save your money. Of course, you could save your money by refusing to go at all.
If you made it this far, I have a feeling you weren't going to see Saw 3D anyway. After the first movie was one of the best horror movies I have ever seen, the rest of them relied almost exclusively on bloody, extreme gore to entertain, and not much else (unless you count twists that they invented out of thin air to surprise you because they had such little basis from what you saw in the movies). Trying to make Jigsaw into some God-like figure who judges the morality and ethics of his victims is just a thinly veiled and failed attempt to class up the proceedings.
And, much like the Friday the 13th franchise or Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Saw films get a little more ridiculous and silly as they attempt to keep the main premise alive long enough to sell even more tickets before you give up entirely.
Then, the volume of the movie is so high (at least in my theater), that it distorted and made it hard to understand Jigsaw's taped speeches to his victims. Maybe that is for the best, since most of the dialogue was stiff and laughable, while the acting, especially from Flanery, was nothing to get excited about.
This is supposed to be the last Saw movie in the franchise, but why do I have a feeling that is like The Rolling Stones promising this is their last tour.
0 Waffles (Out of 4)
Saw 3D is rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language.
Why is Dr. Gordon interested in Bobby?
Who will live - Jill or Hoffman?
Saw 3D is anything but a 3D movie. Sure, they will charge you 15 bucks for the ticket (which I paid for with my hardly earned money), but it's not worth it. The amount of 3D in the movie is infinitesimal.
I was able to watch most of the movie without my 3D glasses, and noticed very few scenes are in the format. Even the ones that are have very little impact, and didn't elicit screams of joy or horror from the crowd. Save your money. Of course, you could save your money by refusing to go at all.
If you made it this far, I have a feeling you weren't going to see Saw 3D anyway. After the first movie was one of the best horror movies I have ever seen, the rest of them relied almost exclusively on bloody, extreme gore to entertain, and not much else (unless you count twists that they invented out of thin air to surprise you because they had such little basis from what you saw in the movies). Trying to make Jigsaw into some God-like figure who judges the morality and ethics of his victims is just a thinly veiled and failed attempt to class up the proceedings.
And, much like the Friday the 13th franchise or Nightmare on Elm Street series, the Saw films get a little more ridiculous and silly as they attempt to keep the main premise alive long enough to sell even more tickets before you give up entirely.
Then, the volume of the movie is so high (at least in my theater), that it distorted and made it hard to understand Jigsaw's taped speeches to his victims. Maybe that is for the best, since most of the dialogue was stiff and laughable, while the acting, especially from Flanery, was nothing to get excited about.
This is supposed to be the last Saw movie in the franchise, but why do I have a feeling that is like The Rolling Stones promising this is their last tour.
0 Waffles (Out of 4)
Saw 3D is rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, and language.
