It's been so long since we last a Saw movie in the traditional sense and even longer since we last had a good Saw movie in the traditional sense of the word. Well now we've just got a new Saw movie that is not only actually pretty good but is also getting alt of praise from the critics as well and well as i'm huge mega Saw fan you all just knew that I had to check this film out the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the film that is the first Saw film to be a prequel with the film in question being called simply just "Saw X " enjoy.
The plot of this film is a desperate John Kramer goes to Mexico to seek some radical treatment for his cancer only to discover his doctors are scammers and so sets about getting his form of deadly revenge. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honest personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty with this films plot being really refreshing but for the most part also being pretty predictable as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is franchise star Tobin Bell as John Kramer / Jigsaw and Shawnee Smith as Amanda Young. Also starring in this film is Synnøve Macody Lund as Cecilia Pederson , Steven Brand as Parker Sears , Renata Vaca as Gabriela , Joshua Okamoto as Diego / Dr. Cortez , Octavio Hinojosa as Mateo , Paulette Hernandez as Valentina , Sons Of Anarchy star Michael Beach as Henry Kessler and Jorge Briseño as Carlos.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with Tobin Bell of course killing it as John Kramer / Jigsaw. How this man can still turn in a bone chilling performance in all of these films and not be bored with the character is beyond me with this film perhaps being his personal best performance as the character with the rest of the cast also turning some really solid performances as well.
It's no surprise that Amanda is back in this film as not only the trailers but also the official X account for Saw spoiled her return. Which is weird as the film treats her return as this shocking moment and yet all you have to do is watch any of the films trailers or go to the official Saw X account and you'll find that her return was already spoiled by the films marketing team which is such a shame as this could have been a really cool reveal as it would have been something that we wouldn't have seen coming and yet because of the fact that it was spoiled ahead of time it now just becomes something that we were waiting to see.
SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!
There is one return that wasn't spoiled in the films marketing and that's the fact that we get to see Costas Mandylor as Mark Hoffman. With this return taking place during the films post credits scene and that's a return that was genuinely shocking as it's something that we never see coming but given the films timeline this films post credits scene might not necessarily work with the rest of the franchise but it's still cool to see a character from the post John Kramer era make his grand return in this film with the post credits scene possibly setting up future installments.
This films does give us a couple of other firsts for this franchise as this is the first film in the franchise to take place outside of America and it's also the first film to basically be a prequel. Which is something that I hate as it now makes this film feel pointless as we already know that the new characters will all die and we know that John and Amanda will survive thank to them being in the first three movies which means that any and all suspense that this film could have built up is now gone because of the fact that John and Amanda are main characters in the original three films but I will admit that the idea of doing a prequel to Saw 2 is a pretty good idea tho.
We have to talk about the victims in this film as this film did something that while interesting is something that I hated. That being the fact that it made all of the victims really unlikable and it made John and Amanda likable this is something that really should have been the over way around as John and Amanda while they don't for the most part actively kill one are still basically killers with John also being very manipulative where as the victims whilst not always perfect usually have something that makes them likable people and yet flipping that for this film is just something that doesn't work when you take into account all of the other Saw films.
Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fifty two minuets and fifty eight seconds. Which was a bit of a long time for this film to last but at the same time you really couldn't cut out anything from this film as alot of the first thirty or so minuets is just spent with John and giving story information that will become important later on in the film but at the same time having a Saw film that's this long makes the film a bit much to sit through and it wouldn't surprise me if people chose not to watch this film because of the fact that it is one off not the longest film in then Saw franchise but I will admit that this film does have some really good pacing to it.
So now then as this is a Saw film that means that I have to talk about the actual traps that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual traps that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this film having some pretty inventive looking traps and while the best trap of the film will always be the trap seen in the films poster that doesn't mean that there aren't alot of a really good and really gory traps in this film as alot of this films traps are just really cool to look at in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!
Overall this film is a return to form for this franchise altho there are some things in this film that the most die hard of Saw fans like myself just won't like as they don't really add up or make sense for that matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boy and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Saw fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being the official Sleepy Hollow fandom wiki page simply because Google Images actually has images from this film up on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.
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