Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
by Darren Lynn Bousman
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Actor: Angus Macfadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin BellDirector: Darren Lynn Bousman
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Cinematographer: David A. Armstrong
Editor: Kevin Greutert
Producer: Peter Block
Producer: Jason Constantine
Producer: Daniel J. Heffner
Producer: Stacey Testro
Producer: James Wan
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Published)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-01-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lionsgate
Movie Reviews of Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: A dramatic dip in quality for an otherwise great horror series.
Summary: 3 Stars
Here we have the third movie in the ongoing horror series, Saw. The acting is solid, but the script and plot are very lacking. What little plot there is has absolutely nothing to do with the previous two films with the exception of Jigsaw and his apprentice being involved. The whole plot for this movie actually isn't even explained until later in the series. For such a story oriented series this a major drawback. There's plenty of gore to be had here, in fact it's probably the goriest in the series. Having said that the gore isn't disturbing or frightening like it was in the first movie. Overall it's a solid horror movie but it doesn't do the previous movies in the series justice.
Summary of Saw III (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Jigsaw has disappeared. With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) and Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboardThe first Saw picture actually had an idea behind it, to say nothing of the ingenuity of its low-budget production; making a silk purse out of a bloody, maggot-ridden human ear, as it were. With Saw III, the franchise pretty much settles into gore for gore's sake, as it explores newer and better ways to traumatize the body--and the audience. Events from Saw II are sewn up at the beginning of the film, and a detective on the trail of mad killer Jigsaw is quickly trussed up and subjected to one of the villain's sadistic games (this one has escape possible only by means of a key sitting in the bottom of a beaker of acid). Then we catch up with Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) himself, as he awaits death from his debilitating illness; once again he's tended by helper Shawnee Smith. The movie follows parallel plots: Jigsaw blackmails a doctor (Bahar Soomekh) into keeping him alive, and tortures a vengeful soul (Angus Macfayden) into recognizing the futility of revenge. Original Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell worked on the script of this one, and it fully buys into the series mythology, referring backwards to previous events and, for all we know, preparing us for future installments. But if future installments are as pointlessly repugnant as this one, there's not much to look forward to. --Robert Horton
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