Review of Saw 3D (2010) by Tktiger — 01 Aug 2012

Saw 3D gave the gore fans exactly what they wanted: Gore. So much gore, delivered in various ways - some more inventive than others. Sadly, for those who have followed the story and kept up, gore alone was not going to make this a good film.

I won't repeat the many flaws this film has, as other reviewers here have that base fully covered, but I will elaborate on something most just mention. Lazy/poor scripting. Characters weren't just killed; they were assassinated.

Jill, for example, had been a quiet character who used her head and kept her cool. She knew the part she had to play, and until the end of Saw VI she had played it well. However, in Saw 3D she appeared to have a complete character reversal.

Gone was the cool and calculating woman who could rely on her quick mind to escape almost anything. What we got instead was a typical horror movie "screaming queen" who did nothing but blunder around without anything resembling a thought process going on in her head.

There was no fight in her as she fled from Hoffman, and she seemed to just resign and accept her fate once she was captured. This change was repeated for the other main players in this film. 6 films' worth of character development was thrown aside so the characters could do what the script wanted them to do, instead of the script bending to the needs of the characters.

Yes, the previous films were guilty of giving highly dubious reasons as to why people were doing the things they did, but at least some attempt of justification was given as to why this wasn't "out of character" behaviour.

Saw 3D made huge changes and offered no explanation as to why. That's what upset me the most about this film, and why I think it's the weakest of the bunch.