"The game's simple. The best ones are."
Having been wiped out by falling box office and the Paranormal Activity franchise in spite of a late return to form with the seventh movie The Final Chapter, John Kramer returns for Halloween 2107 with an efficient and effective entry in the Saw series. Although the Saw movies lost their way somewhat after the excellent third film, this film is a more streamlined affair that pays more attention to balancing the police procedural scenes with the traps-and-torture strand. There is also a clear effort to make the film look cinematic by opening out the police/exterior scenes in contrast with the usual claustrophobic five-people-trapped-in-a-maze routine. The cast is committed and plays it straight, and the enjoyable timeline-twisting reveal works well in spite of being (very) heavily signposted. In this series, the traps work best when the victims have to make real choices as opposed to being simply punished, and this element is played upon effectively for the most part here. Overall, Jigsaw is a well-made and effective addition to the franchise that is not up there with the first three films but is enjoyable nonetheless.
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