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Anybody who has read my rather wordy "Saw V" review knows that I have a dire, hopeless, pathetic love/hate relationship with the series. Once again, I'll state that following the series I pick up the little pieces of something interesting, something genuinely GOOD under all the crap, yet that means I end up seeing each damn movie and they've consistently gotten worse. Yet that cycle has strangely been broken, Saw 6 stands tall above all the other sequels, and in a way the movie actually managed to redeem the series in my eyes, to a small degree. While I'm still mad at the series for episodes II-V, especially IV, I can't help but find myself remembering how I felt when I saw the first film. While I can't say its as good as the first as it still has many flaws and lacks the tension that made the first film good, it does a good enough job of tying up several loose ends and hiding them underneath some genuinely good substance this time around.
The strangest thing that one find about Saw VI is that there's rhyme and reason, and some politics too. Considering how brainless the previous sequels were, its a bit jarring to see an episode in this franchise that actually has some brains beyond splattered brains. In fact, I kinda set myself into the typical, brainless mood I have to be in to watch these movies, but when I realized the film was actually trying I got a smack across the face and flipped my brain on. Oddly enough, Saw VI is something of a twisted, screwed up outlook on the US of A's health care system, and the crap people go through to deal with it. That's right: Saw VI is up on a soap box. While its a little hard to tangle with that concept, the film doesn't over do it, and it keeps the traps a little more interesting and not quite as brainless as the previous films. Saw VI is still far from a masterpiece, and hell, as much as I love the first film, I don't think you could call IT a masterpiece either. Yet Saw VI ties up enough loose ends and does its preaching well enough that it can be called a decent flick. Yes, it still retains some the grisly gore of the series and of course the overbaked direction and cinematography, but it all has rhyme and reason for once. While I can't recommend it to people who aren't fans of Saw, and I doubt it will reel anyone else in if they aren't familiar with Saw, this is finally a Saw film that fans of first film can dig into without getting a nasty aftertaste and even the fans of the sequels or gorror movie fans will find content here to their liking. It ties up enough loose ends that this would be a satisfying closure for the series, but there is money to make and Saw VII has already been announced. Maybe Saw VI is a new beginning for the series and #7 may continue picking up the pieces, but I highly doubt it.
7.1/10
The strangest thing that one find about Saw VI is that there's rhyme and reason, and some politics too. Considering how brainless the previous sequels were, its a bit jarring to see an episode in this franchise that actually has some brains beyond splattered brains. In fact, I kinda set myself into the typical, brainless mood I have to be in to watch these movies, but when I realized the film was actually trying I got a smack across the face and flipped my brain on. Oddly enough, Saw VI is something of a twisted, screwed up outlook on the US of A's health care system, and the crap people go through to deal with it. That's right: Saw VI is up on a soap box. While its a little hard to tangle with that concept, the film doesn't over do it, and it keeps the traps a little more interesting and not quite as brainless as the previous films. Saw VI is still far from a masterpiece, and hell, as much as I love the first film, I don't think you could call IT a masterpiece either. Yet Saw VI ties up enough loose ends and does its preaching well enough that it can be called a decent flick. Yes, it still retains some the grisly gore of the series and of course the overbaked direction and cinematography, but it all has rhyme and reason for once. While I can't recommend it to people who aren't fans of Saw, and I doubt it will reel anyone else in if they aren't familiar with Saw, this is finally a Saw film that fans of first film can dig into without getting a nasty aftertaste and even the fans of the sequels or gorror movie fans will find content here to their liking. It ties up enough loose ends that this would be a satisfying closure for the series, but there is money to make and Saw VII has already been announced. Maybe Saw VI is a new beginning for the series and #7 may continue picking up the pieces, but I highly doubt it.
7.1/10
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