What Everyone Says About It: "How can the sixth movie in any franchise, let alone a horror one, be any good at all? After the fourth and fifth movies proved that the series really didn't have any good ideas left beyond printing money, there's little reason for six to be any different. Torture porn and increasingly implausible twists in a plot that's too convoluted to care about are very much the order of the day here." Why It Isn't Terrible: Yes, Saw IV was bad and Saw V was horrendous, but Saw VI brought the franchise back to form with one of its better entries, a savagely, blackly hilarious attack on America's health care industry that served up some of the franchise's gnarliest kills (the opening "pound of flesh" test is brilliantly nauseating), and actually moved the plot forward in an interesting, meaningful way. Sure, it was ultimately just a set-up for the next Saw movie, but in fully establishing Detective Hoffman as the tried and tested Jigsaw 2.0, it did a fine job setting the stage for the bonkers finale that was Saw 3D.
Stay at home dad who spends as much time teaching his kids the merits of Martin Scorsese as possible (against the missus' wishes).
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