SAW III – darren lynn bousman – 0.8 / 10

Basically all this film is saying is, 'Hey, weren’t those first two Saw movies cool?'  It's not an advancement of the form in any way but rather a summation of what’s come before (loaded down with plenty of flashbacks which ruin the first two films on the off chance a viewer hadn’t already seen them).  Admittedly it’s hard to come up with new and ever more brutal traps for people to have to earn their way out of, but it seems to me that the filmmakers here fell victim to the pressure to keep adding new twists.  They bend and contort the story in service of the twists and in the process lose everything that was good about the first two films (not that there was very much, but you know what I mean).