SAW VI Review

I’m going to try to keep this short and sweet, I feel like at this point in the series if you’re still a SAW fan you will see this no matter what I have to say here, and if you’re no longer a fan (or never was) then nothing I say here is going to change your mind anyways. There may be some spoilers, but I’ll give warning for those of you that haven’t seen it yet.

It’s hard to believe that we’re already on the 6th movie in this series and while there have been some stumbles, the guys behind the movie still manage to deliver a familiar story in an interesting way. This time around Jigsaw is still the one planning the games from the grave via his wife and Hoffman. This final wish of John Kramer is to punish William, the man that denied him health insurance when he was stricken with cancer. He puts William through a series of tests as his family is trapped in a cage waiting to see if he makes it through the tests. Each test involves him saving, or not saving, different people in his office. And without giving too much away, that’s the basic plot.

I thought the movie was pretty good overall. While it did do the whole flashback to previous movies thing it didn’t do it at an obnoxious level and it didn’t really fill in a whole lot of holes that were left open. Of course it filled in some, but I think SAW V tried too hard when it comes to this. SAW VI has the right amount of gore and tension and the twist ending was pretty cool too. If you’re a fan of the SAW movies, but were turned off by SAW V, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by VI. And from what the box office numbers show it looks like a lot of people were turned off by part V. Of course we get some sub-par acting, but it’s not as distracting as Cary Elwes was in the first one, that was pretty bad.

So that’s all I really wanted to say about the movie. It’s going to be really hard for me to convince anyone that isn’t still a fan of the films to go see it so I’m not even going to try. It is a SAW movie and if you like the series you won’t be disappointed. And again, if you were disappointed by part 5, at least give this one a chance when it hits DVD.