"It doesn’t add much to the overall series, and its lamentable attempt to imbue Jigsaw with a heart proves as misguided as the killer’s holier-than-thou agenda."
-Brian Eggert, DEEP FOCUS REVIEW
Saw X is a 2023 American horror film directed and edited by Kevin Greutert and written by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg starring Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith who reprise their roles from the previous films, acting alongside Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Renata Vaca, and Michael Beach, who play new characters. Set between the events of SAW I and II, a sick and desperate John travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer - only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, John returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through a series of ingenious and terrifying traps.
In April 2021, a tenth film installment to the Saw franchise, titled Saw X, was reportedly developing with Twisted Pictures. Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger, writers for the previous two series entries, Jigsaw (2017) and Spiral (2021), confirmed the script was completed in December 2021. I Can't say I'm the biggest fan of either of those films, so going into this movie I didn't exactly have high hopes.
The SAW series has always been full of pointless flashbacks that don't add anything to the overall story, and this movie feels like the longest and least necessary throwbacks I have ever seen. Bloated, boring, pointless, and nostalgia bait all seem like fitting words to describe this movie. It's a movie that is so desperate to be in this franchise without really understanding why the OG series worked at all. I hate the DON'T BREATHE 2 idea of changing the whole format and making your nasty-ass villain an antihero protagonist, and this is yet another movie that wants you to care about a pathetic whiny murder man.
the fact that this is the first film in the series to not feature police investigating a murder, isn't a good thing. It makes the movie feel disconnected from the rest of the series' long-running investigation, which is only made worse by the cold modern directing.
It's just lame and yucky and I didn't enjoy it at all. How on earth could you all make a worse SAW film than Chris Rock?
no/10
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