Saw VI

Dir: Kevin Greutert

2009

**

With the franchise starting to look very tired at this point, Saw VI adds a few interesting developments but not nearly enough to evoke the excitement felt upon viewing the first film back in 2004. The story picks up exactly where the last film finished and builds one things we learned as well as as dispel a few things we thought were fact. The film is so convoluted that if you tried to work out whether it actually made any sense you'd probably be in more pain than Jigsaw's victims. If the franchises continuity is in fact solid then congratulations to it's makers, however, while spending so much time trying to be clever, you have clearly forgotten about what made the series so appealing in the first place. The shock, horror and terror has gone. All that's left is gore. The viewer now no longer cares who the victims are, if or how they die and indeed, who is now killing them. It now feels like a TV series and in many respects maybe making it into a TV series isn't such a bad idea, the format would be much more effective in hourly collections rather than what feels like a collection of simple short stories being dragged to the 90 minute mark.