Saw III (2006)

All Critics (90) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (26) | Rotten (66) | DVD (19)

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.'

November 7, 2006 Full Review

Rob Nelson

Village Voice

Top Critic

Even splatter-film buffs should be offended by this piece of nonsense: Not because it's so gross, but because it's so dumb.

November 2, 2006 Full Review

Randy Cordova

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

The second Saw sequel develops the mythology of sadistic puppet-master Jigsaw in ambitious, gruesome but ultimately self-defeating ways.

November 2, 2006 Full Review

Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Top Critic

Admit it: It's not every horror film that can make you feel preached at and slimed at the same time.

November 1, 2006 Full Review

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Tedium eventually sets in again, the movie's murky visual schema and overly aggressive editing style marring any attempts at subtlety. Worse yet, the Jigsaw Killer remains a smug, unscary bore.

October 30, 2006 Full Review

Jason Anderson

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

More gore is really all III has to offer.

October 30, 2006 Full Review | Comments (2)

Michael Ordoña

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Images jump, blip, strobe, and shock like an epileptic seizure - all the result of director Darren Lynn Bousman's lack of trust in his screenplay.

February 1, 2010 Full Review

Brian Holcomb

Kinetofilm

Witness the distortion of the series' original premise bastardized by those who believe they know better.

October 31, 2009 Full Review

Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

The power of "Saw III" lies not in the gore, torture, or tension, but in the relationship between Amanda and Jigsaw.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

The extreme gore is gratuitous, and character development non-existent in a movie packed with the cookie-cutter visual design of the previous two films. Torturer, victim and audience become one.

April 24, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

More bloody mayhem from Jigsaw; not for kids.

July 24, 2008 Full Review

Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

Staying mostly faithful to the successful blueprint of its two earlier installments, Saw III is an adequate sequel that works well enough on its own terms.

July 23, 2008 Full Review

Tim Grierson

Screendaily

Face your fears. A lesson worthy of praise, if the film preaching them weren't so completely full of s***.

January 17, 2008 Full Review

Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking.

September 27, 2007 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

Starts with an interesting premise but quickly squanders it on the usual barely-glimpsed bloodbaths.

August 18, 2007 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

One of the most sadistic, brutal, grisly films of the current splatter-porn genre.

March 24, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

Brian Tallerico

UGO

The only brains on display are the ones that get drilled out of human skulls.

February 12, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

Chris Alexander

Rue Morgue Magazine

I'm pretty impressed with the way in which the producers keep finding new and uniquely disturbing ways to up the ante.

February 10, 2007 Full Review

Scott Weinberg

FEARnet

• 1. Judge Halden: Jeff! Just keep standing there, you're an accomplice to murder! Are you a murder?
  2. Jeff Reinhart: I've wanted to kill him everyday. For three years, I wanted to kill you. Yeah, maybe I am.
  3. Judge Halden: You'll lose your family. Your wife, your daughter!
  – Submitted by Hunter H (44 days ago)
• 1. Jeff Reinhart: I forgive you.
  – Submitted by Rob B (20 months ago)
• 1. Dr. Lynn Denlon: [before the surgery] Alright, John, I need you to keep your head to the side and keep still. What's going on here is your brain is pushing against your skull. I'm going to try and relieve the pressure by cutting away a little bit of your skull. It should help you with your headaches and drastically improve your motor skills. Do you understand?
  2. Jigsaw: All too well.
  – Submitted by Rob B (20 months ago)
• 1. Dr. Lynn Denlon: [while Amanda is comforting John] He can't hear you. He doesn't even know you're there.
  – Submitted by Virginia K (2 years ago)
• 1. Danica: Please help! Please? I'm so cold. I can't feel my arms.
  – Submitted by Virginia K (2 years ago)
• 1. Jigsaw: If you make it through this, Lynn, you're going to thank me one day just as Amanda did.
  – Submitted by Virginia K (2 years ago)

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