Review of Saw VI (2009) by Poul F — 14 Oct 2012

As one of the final instalments of the Saw Franchise you are kind of relief that is ending because it seems that these filmmakers don't have any creativity on them. Hoffman takes the mantle as the new Jigsaw and frames the dead Peter Strahm as Jigsaw's successor. It also seems the Jigsaw's ex-wife is part of this entire game. The new victim of the game is William Easton, a health insurance executive, whom basically denied him the possibility of getting cured for his cancer. The traps of this movie are about the people he had worked with in the insurance business, now they must people for letting people die.

The plot of the movie is something interesting and it goes into a new direction because, unlike the previous movies, we care about the characters. It deals with an important topic, which is the insurance company. The insurance company is the one that controls about if you are goanna pay your doctor for an operation or something else. Does the insurance company have the right to do that? It seems that those decisions should be made by the patients and the doctors, not by the insurance company. The performances of this movie were to me more or less acceptable. Tobin Bell, even do he only appears for a short while, he makes the Jigsaw character still freaking scary. The traps of this movie seriously are well made and scary.

Now the problem with movie is just that it has the same freaking twists over and over again. The jigsaw character sort of had an army of an apprentices, because since Saw 2 apprentices are coming out of nowhere and it's getting dull and boring. The ending was seriously anti-climatic, it's the seen it before scenario. The Jigsaw is getting really unrealistic in this movie. This guy had one year to live, and you are telling that this person, whom was suffering from brain cancer, made 100 movie tapes to inflict fear among his enemies? It doesn't make any sense. When Peter Strahm is crushed to death back in Saw 5, we know he is gone for good, but in Saw 6 it shows that his hands are completely uncrushed, and you are like how the hands survived the trap? Truly the movie, like the rest of the saw franchise, breaks reality and it makes you a painful experience. Now the first trap in which William is stuck in a trap, and after he is given instruction to survive trap, instead of showing fear or trying to escape the trap as fast as possible, he swears against the dead Jigsaw. I'm like WTF? Would you seriously do that when your life is in freaking jeopardy here? The ending of this movie was seriously the downfall of the movie, because it was anti-climatic and not a great conclusion for the Saw saga.

The film was directed by Kevin Greutert. He was editor of the Saw Franchise and then became director of the Saw 6 and Saw 3D. Due to the low box-office success of the film, it made the Saw Franchise to stop making movies and end with Saw 3D. According to the fans this is the best of the Saw sequels. The movie is not so good, maybe because the director doesn't have a lot of experience in this field.

If you are a person that enjoys torture-porn movies then I recommend this movie to you because is towards that audience. If you enjoy films with blood and gore, then you will have fun watching movie. This is an obvious no-kids movie. If you like horror movies, even do it doesn't have a lot of storyline, I recommend this movie to you because I think you will appreciate the darkness of this movie. If you are a fan of the Saw Franchise then you will enjoy this movie like hell itself. If you don't enjoy horror you won't enjoy this movie.