Every Saw Film Ranked From Worst To Best

Plot: Ten years after the death of Jigsaw, a new game begins.

Now we're getting to the good Saw movies (i.e. three stars or above).

This placement will be controversial, but yes: Jigsaw is arguably one of the best Saw films and it deserves a second chance.

Admittedly, the editing is terrible - it keeps cutting back and forth between two locations in the middle of set-pieces - and the surprise villain's big plan is complete nonsense on every level, but Jigsaw is still an effective back-to-basics reboot that avoids the mistakes of some of the other sequels.

This time around, the traps are suspenseful, the gore isn't the primary focus and best of all, the film returns to the dark moral ambiguity of the franchise's better films. The film's victims are all guilty of some serious crimes and seeing their downfall is disturbing, thought-provoking and occasionally satisfying too.

Add in the good visuals, solid dialogue and the (mostly) convincing cast and you've got a return-to-form that deserves far more credit than it currently gets.

As for Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore), the surprise villain, this reveal just about worked. Obviously, one can't help but wonder where the hell this Jigsaw apprentice was in the other films, but it is still a reasonably effective twist and bar his ridiculous scheme, Logan's a solidly-written character too.