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Saw III (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 83
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 62

Saw III does little beyond repeating its predecessor's tropes on a gorier level.

Average Rating: 3.2/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 17

Saw III does little beyond repeating its predecessor's tropes on a gorier level.

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Movie Info

Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is back, and this time he's concocted his deadliest set of traps yet in this gore-soaked sequel written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and directed by Saw II's Darren Lynn Bousman. Picking up directly where its predecessor left off, Saw III finds Jigsaw near death and fighting to stay alive for one final game. Determined to show his prot�g�, Amanda (Shawnee Smith), what it truly means to carry out his deadly game, the ailing Jigsaw instructs his apprentice to kidnap

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman

Written By: Leigh Whannell

In Theaters: Oct 27, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Jan 23, 2007

Box Office:$80.2M

Lionsgate Films

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 Source: Village Voice

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Rob Nelson

Village Voice

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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 Source: Arizona Republic

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Randy Cordova

Arizona Republic

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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 Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

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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 Source: Globe and Mail

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Jason Anderson

Globe and Mail

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More gore is really all III has to offer.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Michael Ordo�a

Los Angeles Times

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Just like its increasingly wan antihero, this blood-soaked series is on its last legs.

October 30, 2006 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

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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 Source: Kinetofilm

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Brian Holcomb

Kinetofilm

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

October 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

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 Source: ColeSmithey.com

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

More bloody mayhem from Jigsaw; not for kids.

July 24, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Cynthia Fuchs

Common Sense Media

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

January 17, 2008 Full Review Source: Projection Booth

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Rob Humanick

Projection Booth

Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking.

September 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

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

August 18, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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

March 24, 2007 Full Review Source: UGO

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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 Source: 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 Source: FEARnet

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Scott Weinberg

FEARnet

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Audience Reviews for Saw III

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Saw 3 is the the end of the trilogy of Jigsaw, but its just another Saw sequel that doesn't live up to the first. The plot is actually getting cliche and the same with every movie, but I still am that kind of person who completely loves the mysterious endings of the Saw films. The cast is ok I guess, I can't complain

August 15, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

Without a doubt my favourite Saw movie. The whole point of this movie, which I think some people miss, is to bring the standard "shock" of just how twisted some of the torture scenes are to a personal level. If you have kids, the themes hit you a little harder than any of the other themes in any other Saw movie.

July 17, 2011

Unknown Hobo

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Saw III Quotes

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1. Jeff Reinhart: I forgive you.
– Submitted by Rob B (5 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 (5 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 (9 months ago)
1. Danica: Please help! Please? I'm so cold. I can't feel my arms.
– Submitted by Virginia K (9 months 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 (9 months ago)