Why do they keep making Saw movies? My unpopular take, they are all bad. Even the first. Not because they are torture porn, although that is problematic and needs to be discussed, but because they are cheesy, weakly plotted melodramas that often telegraph their so-called twists and are simply unsatisfying. So they decide to go A-list with the latest by casting big names but bring in the same old director who tortured us with previous Saw instalments and the film just feels like.. more of the same, only with big names.
I think the reason I feel so viscerally about the Saw franchise is how much potential there is in the basic idea behind them. An exploration of purgatorial suffering and redemption could be fascinating. But the films never get there. Not one. And despite what I had hoped might be a different direction from this new approach, Spiral never becomes anything more.
Once again the traps aren't scary, they are just gross. Nothing new there but just as unsatisfying as any of the other Saw films. And once again the "villain" is obvious from the beginning. These films always have overly complicated back stories that seem like they were crafted by working backward from the ending they wants and often feel retrofitted, shoehorned in.
And it's damn booooooooring. No crime is worse for a film.
Could this finally put an end to this franchise that over stayed its welcome with Saw II??
PS. I am a big fan of what Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell have done since dumping this crap on us.
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Starring: Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisol Nichols
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Writers: Josh Stolberg, Peter Goldfinger
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