My Review of Saw 3D (2010)

 

Written by Patrick Melton And Marcus Dunstan 

Directed by Kevin Gruetert 

Dr. Gordon (to Bobby): "Bravo! To be able to sustain such a traumatic experience and, uh, and yet find a positive in that grizzly act. It's a remarkable feat, indeed. Remarkable... if not a little perverse."

Otherwise known as Saw: The Final Chapter. Yup, this really should've concluded this franchise but there would be three movies to come. Everything about this movie really felt like an ending.

For example, our main focus was on a survivor named Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery). He wrote a book about escaping Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) and even held a support group for former victims. Except that there's a problem with Bobby.

The problem being that Bobby was never a victim of Jigsaw's in the first place. In flashbacks, it was revealed that he was something of a loser who pretended to be a victim in order to reshape his life for the better. Unbeknownst to Bobby, he actually did meet the real Jigsaw but that was something he'd come to realise much later in the movie.

The consequences of Bobby's deception however did put him in the firing line. He was tested by current successor, Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). Yes, the latter survived Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) trying and Marl wanted revenge on the former Mrs Kramer. That didn't stop him from making Bobby's life a living hell.

Bobby's suffering came at being unable to save his publicist Nina (Naomi Snieckus), lawyer Suzanne (Rebecca Marshall) and best friend Cale (Dean Armstrong). There was also Bobby's unfortunate wife, Joyce (Gina Holden). Yet again, it ended badly for everyone involved.

However the best part of this movie was of course Mark vs. Jill 2.0 with the former subjecting the latter to what she did to him. Except she actually died and then Mark got bested by Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes). I was surprised to see Gordon back into the mix but again, it also felt like a full circle moment for this horror franchise.

- The opening kills were a public event with a love triangle between Ryan (Jon Cor), Brad (Sebastian Pigott) and Dina (Anne Greene). It didn't end well for Dina.

- Another kill sequence involved a group of white supremacists, one of whom was played by Linkin Park's Chester Bennington.

- Standout music: Ozzy Osbourne's Life Won't Wait.

- Chronology: From where the previous movie left off.

Saw 3D really should've been the one to have ended this franchise. It's not perfect by any means but it felt like a good place to end things for Jigsaw and his successors. Oh well.

Rating: 6 out of 10