Loved the first Cult Classic & loved the Donnie Wahlberg sequel & now I've enjoyed this savage part 3.

Saw 3 is incredibly clever & completely connects everything from part 1 & 2 & brings it into this brutal revenge story about a depressed grieving man who lost his little boy to a dangerous driver who got a tiny little sentence by a corrupted judge because of a cowardly witness refused to step forward & the slowly dying John Kramer uses this horrible situation to set up a new game & invite everyone he dislikes to play.

Saw 3 is really a vigilante vengeance film but in the confines of one of Jigsaws booby trapped torture buildings.

The cast is Awesome with Shawnee Smith (who gives an incredible troubled performance) & Donnie Wahlberg (back as the injured but brutal cop) & Tobin Bell (back as the sinister & smart genius Jigsaw) & Dina Meyer (back as the beautiful & troubled cop) & Angus Macfadyen (excellent performance as the grieving father) & Baha Soomekh (as the captured doctor) & all such solid performances that hold all the Horror & gritty situations together.

The look/Cinematography is grainy & raw & looks like its shot on film & the music is exciting & thrilling.

Excellently written with everything connecting & all loose ends tied up. Basically a real shocker & a thrilling sequel.

Yes this super savage sequel has really a true anger at it's core with how useless & unfair & corrupted the Justice system really is & the rage people feel & the vengeance they crave.

There's plenty of twists & turns & extremely gory scenes, so much so that i had to look at Away often lol, more extreme than the first two film.

Here sick John Kramer/Jigsaw captures a doctor who has a damaged life behind her work & Kramer wants her to fix him the best she can without going to hospital & the game is a deadly affair that puts a vengeful father through a maze of torture as he comes accross each person who let his son's killer get away with murder.

A very serious issue at it's heart & a graphic horrific tale of violence with excellent performances throughout.

Another great sequel in this savage franchise.

SAW III begins in a super-grisly fashion that sets the path for extreme gore, with a trio of extraordinarily unpleasant incidents. The first sees a virtual reprise of the gag from the original SAW flick – a guy wakes up with his leg chained to a post, and there's a hacksaw to hand. However, in a novel twist, this guy sees fit to get a porcelain slab and proceed to SMASH his foot out of shape until he can twist it through the manacle. Soon after, there's a Native American guy who has to pull a series of hooks out of his flesh before a bomb goes off, and this is indeed the most sadistic, unrepentantly grisly moment in the entire movie – anybody who watches without flinching must be emotionally dead. The final incident sees a woman having to put her hand inside a jar of acid to get a key to unlock the bomb that's wired to her rib cage. It all goes wrong, and her chest is gruesomely torn off. Had enough yet?

After this barnstorming opening, things slacken off for a derivative storyline about a sick killer and the doctor who's got to keep him alive – or she dies. There's none of the gore that we saw in the first ten minutes, instead the film becomes largely uninteresting, let down by too many scenes of cod psychology and lots of flashbacks to events in the previous films that don't serve to go anywhere – incidents in the previous movies didn't really need to be fleshed out because they were self explanatory. The film also reveals why Shawnee Smith never really became a star after appearing in 1988's THE BLOB – it's because she's not a very good actress, and her wide-eyed expressions of shock and her mumbling do not amount to convincing acting.

On the other hand, Tobin Bell is self-assured and gives an entertaining performance as the fiendish killer, and Iranian newcomer Bahar Soomekh is great as a leading victim. But Angus Macfadyen's world-weary cop is boring, his grief unbelievable, and there's not a shred of sympathy for him as the story unfolds. Of course, there's a series of weird deaths, this time including a gratuitous naked girl – you won't believe how many shots we get of her naked body – and a bout of unpleasantness involving some rotted pig carcasses which tries to get the viewer spewing. The "rack" is probably the second worst torture in the film – a black guy has his arms, legs, and finally head twisted out of their sockets – but by this time the viewer has become jaded to the bloodshed – it's not as effective as in the film HOSTEL, in which the brief glimpses of torture made them all the more disturbing. Things culminate with some brain surgery (you'll see worse in CASUALTY) and some yawn-inducing "twists" which pave the way for yet another sequel. So SAW III is okay if you're looking for gore, but offers little else to entertain.

Jigsaw victim Troy had to rip out the chains implanted to his skin to escape a bomb but he fails. A SWAT team breaks into the devastated room. Detectives Mark Hoffman and Allison Kerry continue their investigation and haunted by the missing Detective Eric Matthews. Kerry is kidnapped and set up in her own Jigsaw trap. She's too slow killing her. Troubled ER doctor Lynn Denlon is abducted by Jigsaw apprentice Amanda Young to treat her master John Kramer suffering from brain cancer. Lynn is fitted with an explosive collar to be released if John is still alive after finishing with his present victim Jeff. Jeff is obsessed with avenging his son's death by a drunk driver.

The start is fine. I like taking Kerry as the next victim. I also understand the temptation to surprise kill her. However it would be much more compelling to switch Jeff with Kerry. I don't care about Jeff or Lynn. I don't care about Jeff's story. Jeff's flashbacks are boring. The body horror is still there but it doesn't have the shock anymore. This is not scary. Amanda is back and that's good. The ending is disappointing because it doesn't take the natural successor. This franchise insists on killing my favorite characters instead of continuing the series with them.