Sperel

It's a torture porn film, it must be Saw...

Many years after the events of Saw, someone decides to take a stand against the police and kill off officers that are corrupt. (Oooh, timely commentary!) Can the One Good Officer find out the person who is behind all this?

There is political commentary here in the corrupt cops, but there isn't really anything done about that given the current social atmosphere. More like "this is what the movie was always about and then society turned against the police."

The bigger problem with this movie is... why is this Saw? Not just the social commentary angle, but this could easily have been any "the corrupt police are being taken out" and there was no real need to set it in the larger universe at all. Aside from a few references, it's completely irrelevant.

And then there is Chris Rock, who is either doing a comedy bit, or trying to do a serious bit. His face is so often "I can't believe this" that I can't take many of his scenes seriously. And Samuel L Jackson is wasted, but then this movie shouldn't have happened this way, so not surprising his role doesn't really work either.

But as ever, this film has traps, and that is what is important. Although watching this, I am left wondering... how the hell did a) the killer get the traps into position and b) custom make some of this? Just go into business as an engineer, make lots of money!

Overall, it was just kinda meh. The graphic horror was pretty graphic, in keeping with the series, but the story is largely generic and not really enthralling.

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