Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)

January 7, 2012 by nasen75

Take one hard look at this picture. Now you know what the movie is all about.

I’ll admit this: I saw Saw: The Final Chapter (or Saw VII, or Saw 3D) without seeing any of the preceding movies. Despite all that, I got along fine since there hardly any plot to speak of and maybe a few minor references to the original. Basically, the Jigsaw Killer decides to put Bobby through a set of traps because he claimed he survived Jigsaw’s games before when he didn’t in reality.

If any of you have seen a Saw movie, you’ll know it’s basically Jigsaw (or a disciple) putting random people through a set of increasingly grotesque traps with a very weak plot to unite them. I’ll put this out right now: I hate slasher films. Sure, violence junkies would get a real kick out of seeing things like power drills put through people’s eyes or jaws getting ripped out, but that is an instant turn-off for me. In fact, it makes me wonder why the writers of the film weren’t considered public hazards as they are clearly capable of conceiving such ideas for the movie.

It is actually a good thing that there is no real plot to speak of. The segments in between the trap sequences that develop the story involve a cast filled with non-actors reciting the lamest dialogue you will ever hear. I didn’t think Hollywood was even capable of hiring actors as bad as those who appeared in Saw VII. You know there’s a problem when Tobin Bell (the original Jigsaw), in his brief cameo, gave the best performance in the movie.

I’ll reiterate, gore addicts will accept this movie at face value. Saw movies were clearly popular as they grossed enough at the box office for the producers to feel inspired to churn out as many sequels as they did. To me, Saw VII represents a very cynical Hollywood mentality of knowing the movie is a piece of garbage, but also knowing it will do well financially.

Score: 1/4

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Category : Movies, Reviews, Wall of Shame

Tags : 3d, blood, final chapter, jigsaw, saw, vii

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15 thoughts on “Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)”

somebody on January 31, 2012 at 11:07 am said:

please see all the saw series and other REAL reviews before you brand it as some “gore addicts” cynical hollywood piece of garbage . .

let me break down the few essential details that you clearly have missed on the movie since you are turned off by gore and violence..

1. what makes this movie great, is not the violence and killings, it’s the psychological twists that happens, first of which, technically speaking, jigsaw NEVER really killed anyone, the death the victims face are the results of their own conscious decision,

2. the plot is NOT weak, all the SAW series are interconnected HEAVILY, and you need to see them in order to appreciate the movie. in the series, you will see why JIGSAW(Tobin Bell) is that way(he is the only jigsaw, and there is no other)

3. each series tests a different aspect of human capacity and endurance, be it physicality, morality, conscience and so on. you will learn a lot watching the series.

4.. the people are not random people with no common characteristics among them, those people that are trapped are always those people who have committed similar crimes or mistakes that although aren’t apparent in society, are still considered evil, have affected other people lives, and never paid the price for it, also, the people are interconnected with each other,

example of which is SAW 2, the people being tested inside a booby trapped apartment that will release lethal nerve gas within a given time, the victims are criminals, common criminals, that were all arrested by one detective, Eric Matthews, and inside the trapped apartment, is his SON, can you imagine your son being trapped with people that you have put in jail and brutally hate you, each “test” were designed for a specific victim, and they need to do each test to obtain “a key” that will disarm the lethal nerve gas, and all of these “tests” are happening while being watched by Eric Matthews himself and other policemen that have located jigsaw’s whereabouts where he is watching the whole show, and there’s a twist in the ending, (i will spoil it for you), while there is a clock ticking(literally), the detective pleads jigsaw to release his son, and jigsaw tells him to be patient and see what will happen to his test, when the time reaches near expiration and his son about to get killed on TV, he beats up jigsaw to tell him the location of the apartment, in which he hurriedly drove to, and goes inside, upon arriving at the location, he went in, and starts finding his son, when he finally arrives at the place where he saw his son last on TV, the clock runs out, but instead of releasing the nerve gas, the apartment locks up again, and they all realized that the footage being shown on TV was actually taped a few hours back, and about the time runs out, a vault in jigsaw’s room where he was watching the video, opens and reveals that detective Eric Matthew’s son was in there all along with an oxygen tank for breathing, this is the greatest twist i have ever seen in a movie. and then Eric Matthew becomes his next subject for testing in Saw 3

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a humble request on January 31, 2012 at 11:18 am said:

i humbly request that you please put up an open mind and watch the whole series again, since you have watched this with an already fixed thought on the movie about it being “gore and violence” that you have simply shut your mind from the intricate storyline and the elaborate connections with past series

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if you're ju..... on January 31, 2012 at 11:24 am said:

if you’re just going to give an obviously fast-drafted review on a movie where you have not initially given any interest in understanding what the movie is all about, and have probably heard biased comments from your friends against violence in movies, that have affected your expectations and your perspective on the movie

a good movie review, is not about giving a few paragraphs of personal comments on a movie that you clearly WEREN’T interested in watching since you have pointed out earlier in your post that you don’t like gore and violence, and have since given a narrow-minded stance on the movie.

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me on January 31, 2012 at 11:40 am said:

i’m not one of those violence junkies or gore addicts that you have mentioned in your comment, the movies i most enjoy are those feel-good movies, and mostly romantic comedies(yes i’m a mushy type of guy..yes a guy, i’m not a lonely lives-in-the-basement type if you’re think that, i have a girlfriend and a life)

but i’m reaaaaaally open-minded when it comes to movies, i appreciate all movies except a few that were made to be hated like “the last airbender”, “dragonball(2009)”, “tekken” and “skyline”(which are really awful movies)

and i gotta say, SAW series are not mindless slasher films that you think it is, you only perceive it to be that way because you are not fond of the genre, and have set your mindset into thinking that way

i’m fond of the SAW series, because of it’s intelligent theme and plot, unlike other films wherein you shout at your TV “WTF!! just run fast and don’t look back, how the hell is a 200 pound man carrying a heavy chainsaw or large cutting instrument wearing a mask or headgear with an almost non-existent visibility going to catch you???”

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