The best, most complicated, and most sadistic of Jigsaws games.
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If those subjects dont make it?
It probably wont hold up in court, but as long as Jigsaw believes it, fine by us.
Well be evaluating theconceptbehind each trap (what is itabout, thematically speaking?
Is there an alternate solution to the traps that the victims didnt think of?
Ten points for each category, with a maximum possible total of 40.
Execution: 6/10
While the Knife Chair gets points for simplicity,this is also its downfall.
Still, the scenes conclusion is funny enough to earn Jigsaws debut game a passing grade.
Can it be hacked?
Total: 23
9.
Concept: 7/10
Its a giant blender.
Sadism: 8/10
Again,its a giant blender.
Personally, I would have not done that.
Total: 24/40
8.
Sadism: 7 /10
Getting sawed in half is bad enough.
Can it be hacked?
5/10
Brad and Ryan manage to negotiate their way out alive, but what about Dina?
Dont confess your love for both of them, Dina!
Just pick whoever has the bigger pecs and/or biceps, duh.
Total: 26/40
7.
Brain Surgery (Saw X)
LikeSaw IV, the latestSawentry has revenge on its mind.
It reveals that Jigsaw the protagonist and ostensible hero of this movie!
Mateo is first wheeled out into an enormous open room where his partners are chained up as unwilling spectators.
who tricycles his way toward Mateos contraption with a tray full of self-mutilation instruments trailing behind him.
Its hilariously unnecessary, and very Jigsaw.
While Mateo cutting a hole in his head is peak Pain Olympics, Jigsaws poetry is his undoing here.
Can it be hacked?
4/10
Unfortunately, theres a pretty clear way to survive this one, and it avoids brain surgery altogether.
Total: 29/40
6.
But its also where the series began to move toward gore for gores sake.
But that pesky shotgun enclosure does sap some tension from the scene.
Sadism: 10/10
Our first perfect score.
Well, that or your head twisting clean off your shoulders.
Total: 30/40
5.
That earns it conceptual points, along with the presence of more circular saws.
Get it?Saw V?
Can it be hacked?
Okay, that wouldve only filled it up a couple of pints.
Still, that cuts down the amount of blood theyd need to sacrifice by around 25 percent.
Theres no getting out of this one unscathed.
Total: 33
4.
Flaws aside, the movie did arguably nail its traps, which have the grimy simplicity of earlier entries.
Plus, a long-overdue first for the series: a trap that targets the human tongue.
The traps raison detreis articulated right there in the design.
If time runs out, hell be crushed to death by an oncoming train!
You cant replace Tobin Bells eerie rasp with a bored subway announcer and expect to be taken seriously.
Standing still will kill him, but moving around will leave him tongueless.
Can it be hacked?
10/10
The Spiral killer wins this one.
Total: 35/40
3.
It does still leave him with a nasty scar, though.
Total: 36/40
2.
Where is it?Whatis it?
Its too big to be a private washroom in someones home.
It has multiple sinks and urinals, but for some reason, it also has a bathtub.
In the first film, its the premise.
In the second, its a twist.
It is, dare we say, iconic.
Two bros, chilling in a bathroom, ten feet apart cause theyre chained up.
(Remember what we said about escape rooms?)
Jigsaw couldve had a pretty successful career as a playwright if he werent so busy with murder projects.
Gordons realization (He doesnt want us to cut through our chains.
Making it all the more harrowing, Jigsaw keeps putting hope just within reach before yanking it away.
Gordon and Adam think they can get off easy by playing dead?
Turns out the shackles are also shock collars, and Jigsaw can zap them to confirm theyre still breathing.
One clue leads them to a hidden cell phone?
Too bad it can only receive calls, and only from a man holding Gordons family hostage.
The Bathroom doesnt just drive its subjects to violence and self-mutilation.
It drives them out of their minds.
Lets put it this way.
Even the hacks for this trap are just as bad as going through with it.
Total: 38/40
1.
Shotgun Carousel (Saw VI)
Its Jigsaws Sistine Chapel.
Its also extremely fucking funny.
Its also the first trap in the series to kill a gay person, a major win for equality.
ButSaw VI, fromSaw Xdirector Kevin Greutert, also benefits from Jigsaws sense of theatricality.
Then again, this trap is as much a taunt as it is a test.
Its Russian Roulette, with death by a combination of anxiety and shotgun shell.
Its also a Trolley Problem.
What can you say to convince your boss that youre a person worthy of basic humanity?
In cutthroat corporate America, probably nothing.
To top brass, youre either a dollar, or youre disposable.
