"We've met."
After the disappointing IV and V, the return to form by last year's Saw VI was most welcome, and with this year's (evidently final) entry and contractually-obliged returning director Greutert, Saw 3D shows a reasonable injection of energy, pace and some creativity. The traps are mostly well-constructed (the opening gag in a public booth seen in the trailer is terrific), performances are ramped up to the max, and although the set-up for this film's bunch of victims lacks the political resonance of the previous instalment, it does provide a valid reason for their (wafer-thin) presence and for Tobin Bell's flashback appearance. The 3D - apart from a couple of ill-judged moments of CG offal thrown at the audience - is pin-sharp and used purposefully and effectively, and sound design is excruciatingly superb. Thankfully, the story continues the face -off between Jigsaw's widow Jill and berserk detective Hoffman, but this is only one part of the well-crafted story, which employs the series' usual narrative retro-fitting to good use, and the return of the original film's victim Cary Elwes (with considerably less screen time than the promotion suggests) leads to a neat if rather inevitable conclusion to the entire series.
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