The Jigsaw killer is back from the dead to play twisted death-games with his victims and judge whether they deserve to live or not.
'Jigsaw' is the eighth movie in the slasher franchise, 'Saw'. If you’re seen any of the previous films, this time you may wonder about what that new rabbit would be that the filmmakers decide to pull out of the hat to make the film interesting. While the premise is the same; with the Jigsaw killer testing elaborate ways of pitting people against each other and killing the ones he doesn’t deem worthy of living, the killer has been dead since a decade. So when police detectives Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) and Hunt (Clé Bennett) stumble upon murders committed in a similar fashion, with elaborate death-traps, they think that the infamous killer John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is back from the dead.
With the 'Saw' series, the main thing what one would look out for are the infamous death traps which the victims have to overcome. In 'Jigsaw' though, it seems like the makers have run out of them and are depending heavily on the myth of John Kramer instead. That is the literally the death knell for the film because the movie introduces a story-line that is not only unusual but also improbable. Saw was fun because of the gore. Here, the brothers Peter and Michael Spierig have tried to drive the film based on a premise that doesn’t really fit. Kramer is dead, and no one else in the entire cast who seems worthy of taking his place. While the plot does work to introduce the movie to the viewers coming to the franchise for the first time, for Saw loyalists, this just doesn’t seem right. While there are some gory moments that remind you of the previous films, Jigsaw doesn’t quite get there as far as slasher films go. It’s a weak imitation of the previous films but it’s not the weakest in the franchise.
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