In what was originally slated to be the final chapter, the latest installment keeps the traps interesting but leaves the back story running thin.
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10/25/09
Saw VI (2009)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:25
Rotten:31
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: It won't earn the franchise many new fans, but Saw VI is a surprising step up for what has become an intricately grisly annual tradition.
Theatrical Release:Oct 23, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $27,669,413
Synopsis: The makers of the Saw films continue to make Rube Goldberg roll over in his grave with this sixth film in the series. SAW VI finds Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) the target of a FBI... [More]
Starring: Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Tobin Bell
Director: Kevin Greutert
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Reviews for Saw VI
A film so frighteningly familiar it could well be called Saw It Already.
10/25/09
Top CriticThe tension missing from recent installments is back, thanks to an inventive narrative that manages to tie up the ever-evolving saga's loose ends.
10/24/09
Well, I guess there's something more frightening than life-threatening, mutilating 'games' you're forced to play as you struggle to remain alive. And that, of course, is the state of health care in the United States.
10/24/09
The tawdry use of important real-life social issues in the service of what amounts to nothing more than another exercise in malignant sadism makes this picture even worse than earlier episodes.
10/24/09
While the social commentary is as shallow as ever, the film's overall quality is better than the last two installments. That isn't saying much, but it's something.
10/24/09
Saw VI is a step in the right direction, but it's still a film more likely to appeal to fans of the earlier entries than win new converts to the cause.
10/24/09
Saw VI plays like the last gasp for relevance of a heavy-metal series that has not only gone regurgitation-rusty but seems lacking much of a will to live.
10/24/09
Headache-inducing, and featuring one of the worst D-movie performances of the aughts from Costas Mandylor, the latest "Saw" franchise addition is more of the same torture-punishment-rehab-porn audiences have come to expect.
10/23/09
Revenge of the uninsured in this health insurance horror, and we're not talking medical malpractice. While death panels and death penalties alike abound in this surgical slasher spree without benefit of anesthesia, and that goes for the audience too.
10/23/09
...one of the best and most fascinating in the series.
10/23/09
In the sixth installment the series gets political, pointing a finger at the health care system.
10/23/09
Sixth film in revenge series is just as bloody as the rest.
10/23/09
The Saw series long ago cannibalized its cleverest bloodbath gimmicks, but now it's figured out a new way to torture us: by taking a barb-wire stab at political relevance.
10/23/09
Top CriticWho knew that the franchise’s creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense?
10/23/09
Top CriticAfter six installments, it's not exactly cutting edge.
10/23/09
Adding a layer of social significance isn’t the worst strategy for a franchise that keeps piling on the convoluted mythos, yet hasn’t changed its risible mix of mechanized death and tongue-clucking morality.
10/23/09
At one point, I did roll my eyes and think that the movie might be going too far. But then I realized they had been going too far for years. That's what makes them still edgy.
10/23/09
These movies lack a whole lot of panache.
10/23/09
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10/23/09
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