Every Saw Movie Ranked Worst To Best
5. Saw VI
Saw VI is a strange beast in how it opted to include some social commentary of the time, is probably the most ooey-gooey gory film of the franchise, and received a fairly solid response from critics and fans alike... yet was the poorest performing Saw movie at the box office until Spiral: The Book of Spawn arrived. And to be fair to Spiral, that was released at a time when cinemas were only just starting to open up after the COVID-19 pandemic.
As for that social commentary, the main victim of Hoffman's game here is health insurance executive William Easton. Having turned down numerous insurance claims, William and his cohorts have made a lot of money taking advantage of the US medical system and failing their own clients. Thus, they all find themselves in the crosshairs of Hoffman.
It's not just these corrupt medical fat cats who are in Hoffman's sights, though, for he's butting heads with John Kramer's wife Jill and also has the FBI suspecting that Agent Strahm's supposed role as Jigsaw's apprentice in Saw V wasn't all that it seemed. Of course, we also have Kramer and Amanda here in fleeting roles via flashbacks, too.
Saw VI is the last truly good Saw movie, though there obviously were a few franchise entries that surpassed this solid 2009 offering.