Eye Candy #354 - "Saw III"

Saw III:  Unlike "Saw 2", which began its life as the script for a non-"Saw" related film and followed the "a group of people in spooky house" formula that's been done SOOOO many times before (and better), "Saw 3" sees Leigh Whannell and James Wan, who gave us the first "Saw", return to the property and they've written a much more appropriate script for keeping the storyline alive. Jigsaw is back, as well as his apprentice introduced in "Saw 2" (an idea that I've always thought silly, mostly because I thought the actress wasn't appropriate for it). This time he's trapped a doctor and a vengeful father in his house of horrors and the elaborate Rube-Goldberg-from-hell deathtraps are even more grotesque this time around (imagine a device that twists all your limbs, including your head, almost off your body one at a time), and ol' Jigs is on death's door. The point is less clear here in terms of what Jigsaw wants to accomplish, but at least it's done with flair and the movie, more importantly, feels like it belongs in the series, as the challenges the people face involve hurting other people to free themselves (whereas "Saw 2" had people crawling through syringe-filled pits to save themselves). If I could have given this film 2.5 stars, I would have. Woodchuck sez, "Better than 2, less than 1".