How can Jigsaw possibly think he or his undertaking has achieved anything with such a low success rate? He would do better by looking at the numbers, realizing he's doing more harm than good, and trying a new approach. I wish these films would do the same

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 11, 2023

Saw III neatly concludes the original trilogy of films while providing an off-ramp for the ridiculous glut of sequels to follow.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2021

I don't have a problem with uncomfortable violence if it comes in a film that's at least remotely entertaining, which this movie is not. This installment is lazy, coasting on everything that made the first two films so popular.

| Nov 20, 2019

Really nothing more than a quick, cheaply produced studio money-making machine feeding off Americans' insatiable bloodlust.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 6, 2019

The third movie doesn't go over the edge, but it does start to feel like John is setting his subjects up to fail, and the game shouldn't be rigged quite so hard if he really wants people to walk the path of redemption.

| Oct 27, 2017

Saw III's careless nature and its drive to go bigger doesn't consistently lead to better things. Its once compelling twists have now become overdone.

| Oct 4, 2017

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 1, 2010

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

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2009

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

| Apr 29, 2009

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.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 24, 2009

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.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

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

| Original Score: F | Jan 17, 2008

Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Sep 27, 2007

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

| Original Score: F | Aug 18, 2007

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

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

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

Full Review | Feb 12, 2007

| Original Score: 3/6 | Feb 3, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

It requires a stretch of the imagination too far, but there's still plenty of gore and tricksy murders here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2006