Genre: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
(17 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)
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Release: 23 October 2009
Saw VI is a horror movie that Michael Moore could agree with. The makers of Saw movie seem to be running low on ideas and have turned turns to a very unusual issue — America’s health care – as its subject. The movie may not handle the issue well, but it does pose an interesting question: What’s worse, in today’s day, a brutal serial killer or an insurance company?
Saw VI, is so frighteningly familiar that it could be titles “Saw It Already.” At least the mandatory moralizm is much more playful than virtuous in this movie. The Saw franchise has become more of a gory soap opera and its die-hard fans are addicted to following this entangled narrative of Jill (played by Betsy Russell), Det. Lt. Hoffman (played by Costas Mandylor) and Jigsaw (played by Tobin Bell).
While half of the Saw VI concerns an insurance executive who wants to evade an elaborate traps set by Jigsaw (played by Tobin Bell), who died around three Saw movies ago but keeps coming back in flashbacks. The second half of the movie attempts to create sense of the still-lingering plots from Saw IV and Saw V.
Jigsaw has been given an added grudge in this one as a flashback tells that he was once threatened that his health insurance will be canceled. That’s why he creates a viciously elaborate series of traps for Umbrella
Health executive William (played by Peter Outerbridge). The movie’s most gruesome contraption is a spinning carousel on which the executive’s colleagues are tied. Out of those, only two will survive being shot.
Other deserving victims are a pair of predatory lenders who are forced to cut off their own body parts. The best revelations in Saw VI are the contents of the box that Jigsaw willed to his wife, Jill — who appears to be persuading Hoffman to carry out the killer’s sick bidding from here.
As Jigsaw’s victim-turned-vindicator, Mandylor doesn’t have as much screen time as he did in Saw V. This actually benefits this movie. Shawnee Smith comes back as Jigsaw’s accomplice Amanda, in flashbacks.
The main draw of Saw series is the gory games Jigsaw creates for his victims. But going by the games he dreams of in this installment, Jigsaw seems to need to go back to his Torture handbook as he is losing his touch. Saw VI doesn’t even come close to recreating the magic of the original movie, but it approaches coherence which was missing in the last several installments of the series.
The Jigsaw seems to be running out of preys to torture — while in an earlier movie, he justified his actions by torturing junkies and criminals whom he said didn’t appreciate life, in this movie, he tortures a man whose main offense was that he’s a smoker. But still, the Saw series doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
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nice movie.