Saw The Final Chapter

I am not a horror fan. I hate blood, guts, and gore. The reason Saw appealed to me, and the reason I watched it all the way through to the "end" is because of the psychological aspect. This review will be for the series as a whole, as each individual movie does not deserve 5 stars. The quality fluctuated among the movies and this last one was probably not the best. The first Saw was probably the best one (although that is usually the case when a movie goes on and on for ten years). I was absolutely fascinated at Jigsaw's idea of teaching his "victims" a lesson. He was going about it the wrong way, of course, by torturing them, but it was still fascinating. And even if the first was the highest quality, the fifth was my personal favorite. Jigsaw and the movie attacking the insurance industry was just so amazing. Here were my problems: 1. You simply cannot orchestrate killing so many people after you are dead. No one is that good at planning ahead. That right there is the best reason for not having so many sequels. 2. Jigsaw's victims are so grateful for the lessons they learned that they turn around and help him in his quest to "teach others lessons." That is, gruesome murder. That is believable ONCE. How many times did it happen by movie 7? Four? 3. How does Jigsaw have all these huge, empty warehouses that he can fill will all these huge traps that the police do not know about? Is he a billionaire or what? 4. The traps would never work that perfectly like clockwork the way that they do. Just the fact that the TV screens always pop on with Jigsaw's message the exact second the victim wakes up is highly unlikely. (If you watch the special features, they sometimes had trouble getting the traps to work for filming... and that's with all the people right there WITH the traps! And multiple people who built them!) Anyway, suspend your disbelief (for a ridiculous number of things), watch it for the psychological aspect, and you have an enjoyable movie franchise. I don't generally like horror, so I don't own too many horror movies, but I would probably rate this as my all-time favorite horror series. It lasted too long... they probably should have quit while they were ahead. But they still did a pretty good job, as all 7 movies kept my attention and all 7 movies went together well and connected the pieces that were missing from previous movies. That's another thing you don't often see: sometimes sequels ignore what you have previously learned, but these movies went together so perfectly, it was scary. The final problem was that this "Final Chapter" was not so final. There were still a few loose ends. Will there be an eighth chapter? Even though I have enjoyed the series, I don't really hope so... unless it actually wraps it up for good. It has to end sometime, before it wears out its welcome. Which it sort of already did. It's just that those of us who are die-hard fans need to see how it ends that we kept watching this long. Read more

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Never has such a game been played... Well, this movie is the FINAL one in the Saw Series. I will give NO spoilers to you. WATCH THE MOVIE YOURSELF. If you've come this far in the Saw series, the ending will be that much sweeter. Besides, you have a lesson to learn after all you've witnessed at the hands of Jigsaw. Play the game... watch the final Saw. Be amazed at the genius behind the plot that finally comes to a close. You will NOT be sorry. I will miss the yearly Saw movie... the games might be over... but the memory will ALWAYS remain. What a ride it has been. Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3, Saw 4, Saw 5, Saw 6, and Saw The Final Chapter. We've taken quite a ride with the man they call Jigsaw. In the end, the journey was worth it. I have never experienced such a cleaver plot that wrapped all the movies into one package. To understand all, you have to see all... then you will know all. What amazes me through the entire series is that Jigsaw had this ALL planned out from the beginning. He left nothing undone. No stone unturned. No person without their redemption. Everyone played the game. Not everyone won their game. Some lost badly. Others got a healthy dose of reality and learned to appreciate life. Live or die. It was their choice. And chose they did. In the end, Jigsaw himself shed NO blood. He hurt no one. No one died by his hands. They died by their own choices. All Jigsaw did was helped them. In the end, Jigsaw got what he wanted. They'd make a choice. They'd learn a lesson one way, or another. And after 7 movies of this... THE "BAD GUY" won... so to speak. But what DID Jigsaw win? He died back in movie 3. What could he possibly have WON from all the games that continued after he was dead? Perhaps it was the satisfaction in knowing even though he was gonna die one way or the other (from his disease or from the hands of someone be it a cop or someone else seeking revenge for the lessons he was teaching them)... all this would one day come to a close and that the lesson would be learned, everyone will have gotten "educated" and made their ultimate choices (with their fate being in their own hands), and that even though he wouldn't be there to SEE the ending ... perhaps just KNOWING the genius of it all made John Kramer aka Jigsaw happy/satisfied. In my book, Jigsaw is one of the smartest horror movie "villains" of all time. Setting up a game that lasted THAT long... that had EVERYONE he could have possibly thought to need a "REALITY CHECK" in it and for it to play out EXACTLY as he predicted down to that final moment... that is what makes the Saw series work on SO many levels. Add in all those beautifully constructed and interesting TRAPS... and you have one of the BEST MOVIE SERIES in HORROR GENRE EVER. Thank you to all the actors who starred in this wonderful series. Thank you to everyone who made this series possible. Thank you to those who wrote and came up with EVERY detail in each movie to make it SO perfectly laid out. and finally... THANK YOU JIGSAW for never letting it get dull one moment over the course of seven movies, for keeping it SMART, and for having so much fun playing a game. And what a game it was. Read more

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