A lot of fans hate this movie.. But it's actually kinda good..
Mainly cause of Mark Hoffman.
Say what you want about Hoffman, but the dude is a friggin BADASS. In Saw VI we saw Mark Hoffman killing three cops in about five seconds, while armed with nothing but a small knife and a cup of coffee. Totally badass.
And than, John's wife straps to the reverse bear strap, with no way of escaping.. But that doesn't stop Mark "Chuck Norris" Hoffman, who bashes his way out of his restraints by using the trap, prevents the trap from opening fully, and finally rips the thing off, ripping apart the right side of his mouth in the process.
However Jill (John's wife) started off badass, by knocking out Hoffman and placed an upgraded Reverse Bear Trap on Hoffman, and then leaves him to die without any sign of remorse. But after her plan fails, her badassness immediately goes away and she willingly puts herself under Witness Protection and spends most of the movie sitting at a safe house or in a jail cell. But the worst part was at the end where she starts screaming and wailing for help at the top of her lungs when Hoffman finds her in her cell.
Anyway.. Onto the film..
In the beginning. Two men, Brad and Ryan, wake up in a metropolitan storefront window, bound at the wrists to opposite sides of a worktable with a circular saw in front of each of them. Their mutual lover, Dina, is suspended above a third saw. As the scene draws attention and police arrive, a puppet (Billy) informs the men that they can kill each other or let Dina die. They initially fight each other, during which Brad is cut, but ultimately choose to allow Dina to die instead because she tries to get them to kill each other for her own selfish needs, showing she's a gold digger and never actually cared for them.
Meanwhile Jigsaw's widow Jill Tuck meets Matt Gibson (who I was PISSED that he died.. But hey, it's a Saw movie, EVERYONE dies), an internal affairs detective working in the precinct where Detective Mark Hoffman works in. She incriminates Hoffman in exchange for protection and immunity from prosecution.
Gibson, who Hoffman once saved from a violent homeless man. Always distrusted Mark Hoffman, after Hoffman shot the homeless man dead, even though the man was surrounding. Agrees to her terms.
Meanwhile, Hoffman abducts a skinhead gang - Dan, Evan, Jake and Kara - and places them in a junkyard trap that kills them all, leaving the reverse bear trap at the scene to incriminate Jill, who is later put into protective custody (even though she brought this on herself).
After a meeting of Jigsaw survivors, including Lawrence Gordon, who cauterized his leg on a steam pipe after escaping the bathroom and now uses a cane and prosthetic foot, Hoffman abducts Bobby Dagen, a self-help guru who achieved fame and fortune by falsifying his own survival story. He sends Gibson some videos with cryptic clues to the game's location, offering to end the games if Jill is given to him.
Dagen awakens in a cage in an abandoned asylum and is told that his wife Joyce will die if he doesn't save her within one hour. Joyce is chained at the neck to a steel platform that gradually pulls her down as she watches Dagen's progress. After he escapes the cage, which dangles over a floor of spikes, he begins searching for Joyce. Along the way, he finds Nina, his publicist, in a fish hook trap; Suzanne, his lawyer, in a piercing wheel; and Cale McNamara, his best friend and co-conspirator, in a hanging trap. They represent the three wise monkeys and are killed despite Dagen's efforts to save them. After removing his upper wisdom teeth to obtain the combination for a security door, Dagen finds Joyce and is forced to reenact the trap he claimed to survive: he must drive hooks through his pectoral muscles and hoist himself up to the ceiling to deactivate her trap. He fails nonetheless, and is forced to watch as a brazen bull capsule closes around Joyce and incinerates her to death.
Gibson eventually discovers the game's location and sends a SWAT team, who are sealed in another room and killed by toxic gas. Simultaneously, he and two officers infiltrate Hoffman's command center in the junkyard, where they find Dan's corpse sitting in front of several monitors connected to the police headquarter's security cameras. He sees Hoffman brought into the morgue in a body bag and tries to warn Palmer, but Hoffman had prepared for this, and an automatic turret gun rises up and kills Gibson along anyone else in the room.
Hoffman than proceeds to show us one of the most badass moments of the series. As a morgue worker (Adam Heffner) opens the body bag, Hoffman stabs him dead with knife, and than stealthy kills a guard who came to investigate. And soon after, he kills Palmer by breaking her neck, and uses her body to trick the guards into letting Hoffman into Jill's room, and kills everyone else in his path to Jill, who briefly escapes before she is caught and knocked unconscious.
Hoffman straps her to a chair and locks a reverse bear trap to her head; she awakens as the timer starts and is killed when the trap activates, tearing her face apart and bleeding profusely. Hoffman coldly says "Game over" to her corpse.
After destroying his workshop, Hoffman is attacked and subdued by three pig-masked figures, one of whom is Gordon. Flashbacks show that John Kramer found him unconscious by the steam pipe and nursed him back to health, and Gordon has assisted him ever since (he might of been the one that did the Vein Fly trap on Michael, as the guy in the video was limping). This was known only by Jill, who delivered a package to him at the hospital, a videotape in which Kramer asked him to watch over Jill and take action if anything happened to her. To this end, Gordon has Hoffman brought to the disused bathroom of the first movied, and shackled Hoffman to a pipe. Gordon appears, and grabs the hacksaw Gordon used to sever his own foot out the door when Hoffman grabbed for it, saying "I don't think so" before throwing it out if the room, and then turns off the lights and seals the door, leaving Hoffman to his well deserved death as Hoffman is left screaming rage.
That's it.. I am not planning on seeing the NEW movie.. Too me, the films are over..
Mainly cause of Mark Hoffman.
Say what you want about Hoffman, but the dude is a friggin BADASS. In Saw VI we saw Mark Hoffman killing three cops in about five seconds, while armed with nothing but a small knife and a cup of coffee. Totally badass.
And than, John's wife straps to the reverse bear strap, with no way of escaping.. But that doesn't stop Mark "Chuck Norris" Hoffman, who bashes his way out of his restraints by using the trap, prevents the trap from opening fully, and finally rips the thing off, ripping apart the right side of his mouth in the process.
However Jill (John's wife) started off badass, by knocking out Hoffman and placed an upgraded Reverse Bear Trap on Hoffman, and then leaves him to die without any sign of remorse. But after her plan fails, her badassness immediately goes away and she willingly puts herself under Witness Protection and spends most of the movie sitting at a safe house or in a jail cell. But the worst part was at the end where she starts screaming and wailing for help at the top of her lungs when Hoffman finds her in her cell.
Anyway.. Onto the film..
In the beginning. Two men, Brad and Ryan, wake up in a metropolitan storefront window, bound at the wrists to opposite sides of a worktable with a circular saw in front of each of them. Their mutual lover, Dina, is suspended above a third saw. As the scene draws attention and police arrive, a puppet (Billy) informs the men that they can kill each other or let Dina die. They initially fight each other, during which Brad is cut, but ultimately choose to allow Dina to die instead because she tries to get them to kill each other for her own selfish needs, showing she's a gold digger and never actually cared for them.
Meanwhile Jigsaw's widow Jill Tuck meets Matt Gibson (who I was PISSED that he died.. But hey, it's a Saw movie, EVERYONE dies), an internal affairs detective working in the precinct where Detective Mark Hoffman works in. She incriminates Hoffman in exchange for protection and immunity from prosecution.
Gibson, who Hoffman once saved from a violent homeless man. Always distrusted Mark Hoffman, after Hoffman shot the homeless man dead, even though the man was surrounding. Agrees to her terms.
Meanwhile, Hoffman abducts a skinhead gang - Dan, Evan, Jake and Kara - and places them in a junkyard trap that kills them all, leaving the reverse bear trap at the scene to incriminate Jill, who is later put into protective custody (even though she brought this on herself).
After a meeting of Jigsaw survivors, including Lawrence Gordon, who cauterized his leg on a steam pipe after escaping the bathroom and now uses a cane and prosthetic foot, Hoffman abducts Bobby Dagen, a self-help guru who achieved fame and fortune by falsifying his own survival story. He sends Gibson some videos with cryptic clues to the game's location, offering to end the games if Jill is given to him.
Dagen awakens in a cage in an abandoned asylum and is told that his wife Joyce will die if he doesn't save her within one hour. Joyce is chained at the neck to a steel platform that gradually pulls her down as she watches Dagen's progress. After he escapes the cage, which dangles over a floor of spikes, he begins searching for Joyce. Along the way, he finds Nina, his publicist, in a fish hook trap; Suzanne, his lawyer, in a piercing wheel; and Cale McNamara, his best friend and co-conspirator, in a hanging trap. They represent the three wise monkeys and are killed despite Dagen's efforts to save them. After removing his upper wisdom teeth to obtain the combination for a security door, Dagen finds Joyce and is forced to reenact the trap he claimed to survive: he must drive hooks through his pectoral muscles and hoist himself up to the ceiling to deactivate her trap. He fails nonetheless, and is forced to watch as a brazen bull capsule closes around Joyce and incinerates her to death.
Gibson eventually discovers the game's location and sends a SWAT team, who are sealed in another room and killed by toxic gas. Simultaneously, he and two officers infiltrate Hoffman's command center in the junkyard, where they find Dan's corpse sitting in front of several monitors connected to the police headquarter's security cameras. He sees Hoffman brought into the morgue in a body bag and tries to warn Palmer, but Hoffman had prepared for this, and an automatic turret gun rises up and kills Gibson along anyone else in the room.
Hoffman than proceeds to show us one of the most badass moments of the series. As a morgue worker (Adam Heffner) opens the body bag, Hoffman stabs him dead with knife, and than stealthy kills a guard who came to investigate. And soon after, he kills Palmer by breaking her neck, and uses her body to trick the guards into letting Hoffman into Jill's room, and kills everyone else in his path to Jill, who briefly escapes before she is caught and knocked unconscious.
Hoffman straps her to a chair and locks a reverse bear trap to her head; she awakens as the timer starts and is killed when the trap activates, tearing her face apart and bleeding profusely. Hoffman coldly says "Game over" to her corpse.
After destroying his workshop, Hoffman is attacked and subdued by three pig-masked figures, one of whom is Gordon. Flashbacks show that John Kramer found him unconscious by the steam pipe and nursed him back to health, and Gordon has assisted him ever since (he might of been the one that did the Vein Fly trap on Michael, as the guy in the video was limping). This was known only by Jill, who delivered a package to him at the hospital, a videotape in which Kramer asked him to watch over Jill and take action if anything happened to her. To this end, Gordon has Hoffman brought to the disused bathroom of the first movied, and shackled Hoffman to a pipe. Gordon appears, and grabs the hacksaw Gordon used to sever his own foot out the door when Hoffman grabbed for it, saying "I don't think so" before throwing it out if the room, and then turns off the lights and seals the door, leaving Hoffman to his well deserved death as Hoffman is left screaming rage.
That's it.. I am not planning on seeing the NEW movie.. Too me, the films are over..
