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Reviews. Jigsaw. Simon Abrams October 27, 2017. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. I confess, I find the gory "Saw" movies' ridiculously severe approach to dramaturgy to be endearingly preposterous. Imagine a dimwitted Agatha Christie-style whodunit where a killer has trapped a room-full of victims in a single location.
Oct 27, 2017 · 33% Tomatometer 89 Reviews 88% Audience Score 25,000+ Ratings After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement officials find themselves chasing the...
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Oct 27, 2017 · With Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Hannah Emily Anderson. Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years.
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By William Bibbiani
Updated: Nov 6, 2017 1:42 pm
Posted: Oct 27, 2017 9:59 pm
The good news is, Jigsaw is not the worst horror movie of the year. The bad news is, it’s still bad enough that that’s the good news.
The long-running slasher series about a serial killer who puts his victims in elaborate death traps, and gives them opportunities to escape if they overcome their worst instincts, has long been one of the most consistent and reliable horror franchises on the market. If you were watching these movies to see Rube Goldberg murder machines, you were bound to leave satisfied. If you were watching to see how the absurdly intricate storyline unfolded, you were likewise probably happy, every single time.
But it’s been seven years since the so-called “Final Chapter” and it seems as though the people behind Jigsaw have forgotten how these movies work. Jigsaw has deathtraps which, for the most part, fail to stand out against the other, more demonically fascinating devices throughout the series, and the mythology of John Kramer (Tobin Bell) and his ever-growing army of acolytes has been swept to the side in favor of a new tale which, frankly, plays like a side note in a much grander story.
What may be worse is that for the very first time, it feels like the makers of a Saw movie aren’t even interested in their own game. We’ve become accustomed to watching with ghoulish fascination Jigsaw’s complex machinations, followed by a final revelation, shocking and violent and unpredictable, playing out over the familiar crescendos of Charlie Clouser’s “Hello Zepp”.
The Spierig Brothers are usually excellent directors, but the calculated approach that made Daybreakers so clever and Predestination so brilliant doesn’t translate to old school theatricality. Some of their kills are nifty but they never pull the rug out from under us and cackle with mean-spirited glee. Instead, their Saw sequel goes through the basic motions, and they never demonstrate that they have a particular interest in what made the franchise so gruesomely dynamic in the first place. Or even in changing that dynamic to something that fits their own interests. It’s a by-the-numbers sequel in a series that, previously, had a heck of a lot more pizzazz than this.
Jigsaw barely feels like a part of the Saw franchise. It has deathtraps, but takes no pleasure in presenting them. It ignores most of the ongoing storyline. If it wasn’t part of the official franchise it would play like a knockoff, the kind that looks like the real deal at a distance, but can’t stand up to any scrutiny.
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The disappointing Jigsaw doesn't capture what made the Saw franchise work in the first place.
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Oct 27, 2017 · Oct 26, 2017 8:40pm PT. Film Review: ‘Jigsaw’. The 'Saw' series returns after seven years with a sequel that delivers the gross-out goods in a garishly rote been-there-dismembered-that way....
The film was released by Lionsgate Films in the United States on October 27, 2017. Jigsaw received negative reviews and grossed a total of $104.2 million worldwide. It was followed by a standalone installment in the series, titled Spiral: From the Book of Saw, in 2021.
