Saw III (2006)

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3.5/5There's a reason that this series has exploded at the box office while other sequels wither on the vine -- and it's not just because of the perpetually rusty torture devices.
If you don't see Saw III, you might as well saw your eyes out. See it three more times than you saw the last Saws.
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3.5/5Saw III isn’t just by far the best film of the series, it’s one of the better horror movies of the year.
1/5Call this franchise 'Chicken Soup for the Soulless.'
FOne of the worst movies thus far this year.
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2/4Peddles gruesomeness of a disgusting rather than frightening order.
7/10Makes the first two look about as intimidating as a child's six piece jigsaw puzzle. This is for the hardcore horror fan and for the hardcore horror fan only.
1/4May the Saw mini-franchise, dulled into a bloody gore-fest bore after only three installments, rest in piece. A piece of hack-sawed-off foot here, a piece of a bludgeoned limb there.
FThe faces on the mannequins at Penney's are more familiar than these actors. The entire cast might as well be dressed in gray and bicycling around Beijing.

DExtremely dull in every sense. Even the most devoted fan won't find much to enjoy in this grab-bag of tired cliches and inept tricks.
Hardcore Saw fans will be more than pleased with this film from its shocking beginning to its explosive ending.
If you found Hannibal's brain cooking scene a tad too much, you will want to avoid Saw III; but if you are a fan of the gory versions of horror, this will be an iconic essential
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CBecause of its efforts to make sense of the previous entries and even attempt an earnest parable about forgiveness, Saw III may be the best of the trilogy; hopefully, it'll encourage its makers to wrap the franchise on a relatively high note.
Jigsaw is the best slasher villain since Freddy Krueger
B-Is it an enjoyable feel-bad film? I guess. Is 'enjoyable' even the right word?
2/5I get that the easy retort to analysis for a movie like this is that "critics don't get it," or, more to the point, "aren't supposed to like it," but Saw III is so sloppily overblown in its technique as to make the original movie, directed by James
2.5/5No one will ever be able to accuse series creators and scribes Leigh Wannell and James Wan of being stingy with the red stuff.
2/5The fact that it contrives to give its torture master the moral high ground (apparently he only tortures his victims for their own good) is possibly more perverse than any of its violence.
3.5/4.0The makers... demonstrate a genuine integrity for their series by reigning the story back in to its original core elements... Fans of Saw will not be disappointed.
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Average Rating: 3.2/10
1.5/4Just like its increasingly wan antihero, this blood-soaked series is on its last legs.
2/4Ee'll just entertain you by mentioning such extraneous details as a human skull being opened and probed, a naked woman being frozen to death, a man drowning in the ground-up carcasses of dead pigs ...
The inevitable deadening effects of repetition are beginning to infect the Saw franchise, now having produced its third installment in as many years.
1/4Do you want to play a game? How about a really long, convoluted game that leads nowhere? The scariest thing about Saw III is how it seems like it's never going to end.
2/5More gore is really all III has to offer.
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God or Jack Valenti only knows how this work of pure entertainment got an R rating 'for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language.'
1/4What's remarkable about these movies is how much the craftsmanship degrades with each episode. This is a long, scrambled, indifferently made affair. There's no rhythm to the sequencing.
Saw III was not prescreened for critics. It doesn’t need to be. The midnight preview I attended last night was packed with folks who don’t mind seeing Hollywood beat a dead horse.
Saw III is nasty, repulsive, disgusting -- and loaded with enough viscera to probably sell at least $30 million worth of tickets this weekend.
A bigger problem lies with Leigh Whannell's script, which utilizes so many flashbacks and explanatory inserts that the tension, a defining feature of the first Saw, is lost.
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