Saw III
Jigsaw kidnaps a doctor to keep him alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen through a brutal test.
17 January 1977, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
21 September 1963, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
17 August 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
9 March 1997, Oakville, Ontario, Canada
3 July 1969, Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA
February 01, 2010
Images jump, blip, strobe, and shock like an epileptic seizure - all the result of director Darren Lynn Bousman's lack of trust in his screenplay.
April 29, 2009
The power of "Saw III" lies not in the gore, torture, or tension, but in the relationship between Amanda and Jigsaw.
November 02, 2006
Even splatter-film buffs should be offended by this piece of nonsense: Not because it's so gross, but because it's so dumb.
July 23, 2008
Staying mostly faithful to the successful blueprint of its two earlier installments, Saw III is an adequate sequel that works well enough on its own terms.
November 01, 2006
All told, this is a more affecting study in grief, guilt and human frailty than Babel.
November 03, 2006
Because of its efforts to make sense of the previous entries and even attempt an earnest parable about forgiveness, Saw III may be the best of the trilogy; hopefully, it'll encourage its makers to wrap the franchise on a relatively high note.
November 01, 2006
Admit it: It's not every horror film that can make you feel preached at and slimed at the same time.
November 02, 2006
The second Saw sequel develops the mythology of sadistic puppet-master Jigsaw in ambitious, gruesome but ultimately self-defeating ways.
October 31, 2009
Witness the distortion of the series' original premise bastardized by those who believe they know better.
January 17, 2008
Face your fears. A lesson worthy of praise, if the film preaching them weren't so completely full of s***.
November 07, 2006
God or Jack Valenti only knows how this work of pure entertainment got an R rating 'for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language.'
April 24, 2009
The extreme gore is gratuitous, and character development non-existent in a movie packed with the cookie-cutter visual design of the previous two films. Torturer, victim and audience become one.
