Major Spoilers for Saw, Saw 2, and Saw X
It’s the TENTH Saw movie, y’all, and Tobin Bell is back as either the most or least Jigsaw you’ve ever seen depending on your perspective!
Sad news for nobody in the world but Jigsaw and fucking Amanda: Jigsaw is dying. He’s got a bad and late stage kind of cancer, and is almost hopeless when a guy from his support group (who looks perfectly healthy but claims he’s close to the end) tells him there’s a miracle surgery and drug that chases all the hopelessness away. Also the cancer.
Then, boomer Jigsaw does what boomers do- he gets scammed into “doing his own research” (if you’re a boomer and you’re reading this, don’t worry: the fact that you’re seeing this review at all precludes you from being the kind of boomer I’m talking about). He gets scammed. They don’t even have the courtesy to give him a free haircut while they’re “operating”.
Then they leave. Then he finds out. Then he torture porns all over the scammers until they turn the tables except whoops they didn’t.
I liked the first two pretty well. I didn’t like the third, and haven’t seen any of the others.
I was surprised to realize, after watching this one, that I really needed to feel like Jigsaw was rooting for his victims to get their lives together. Did that make what he did okay or noble? Absolutely not. Obviously, he’s insane. So why was that feeling important to me? No idea. But it mattered.
On the bright side, if you thought the old Jigsaw who got off lying in a pool of someone else’s blood was gone forever, surprise! It’s quite the gag.
Kat – 2 (because at least it wasn’t longer)
Kas – 5 (thought it was funny)