Saw VI Reviews
Examiner.com
It's strange that a few people have been saying that this entry is a step in the right direction for the franchise. The only right step this franchise could take would be to end.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Top CriticThis script, by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, has a more lyrical bent, and a more satiric bite, than any of the other Saw sequels.
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| Original Score: 2/5
TheShiznit.co.uk
Saw VI's story is now so ugly and bent out of shape, it's impossible to follow - more fool you for trying.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Empire Magazine Australasia
The never-ending Saw horror franchise continues. Sigh. Fans and non-fans will get exactly what they expect, and not much more.
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| Original Score: 2/5
HitFix
It's funny, but the thing that the series seems to have lost track of amidst all the soap opera and moralizing is the idea that these are horror films.
CNNRadio
They keep reviving dead characters to keep the poor excuse for a story going. When will it all end? Jigsaw is dead, everyone's dead. Please make it stop! Paul Chambers, CNN.
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| Original Score: D+
Common Sense Media
Sixth film in revenge series is just as bloody as the rest.
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| Original Score: 2/5
BET.com
Who can expect something worthy of good reviews after the sixth installment? That said, I'm assuming the creators of Saw walked into the movie deciding, 'We're going to make a stupid, gory movie and everyone will watch it because it's Halloween!'
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| Original Score: D+
Screenwize
No longer just gruesome but also morally bloodied, this franchise about games of death aimed at those who need to understand the value of life - grinds along, wringing out whatever cash is left in the original idea.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Saw" movies gave up on being scary several episodes ago, but there's no suspense or surprise either. Watching its grim procession of carnage is like sticking with a favorite pro football team for the last 8 games after it's already clear they're doomed.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Cinematical
...a worthy and faithful entry in a franchise which at this point seems expressly designed to document people dying in increasingly inventive ways.
Slant Magazine
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.
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| Original Score: 1.0/4.0
EricDSnider.com
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.
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| Original Score: C
Tucson Weekly
For the next installment, I think Jigsaw should time travel into the past and mess with the ancestors of his enemies. That would be cool!
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| Original Score: 1/5
BrianOrndorf.com
Would it kill these producers to take a few chances for the next adventure? It's easy to loathe a Saw picture, but to be utterly bored by one seems an unpardonable offense.
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| Original Score: D+
Antagony & Ecstasy
A triumph (a very relative triumph) for two reasons: first, it is not so confusing as Saw IV, and second, it is not so sleepy and wholly pointless as Saw V.
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| Original Score: 3/10
ColeSmithey.com
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.
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| Original Score: D
Common Sense Media
Thrives on extreme, ghastly gore as its primary motivation, making all other concerns secondary; in essence, it's more an endurance test than it is a movie.
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| Original Score: 2/5
