Every Twist In The Saw Franchise - Ranked From Worst To Best
7. The Game Took Place 10 Years Earlier, Logan Is The Original Jigsaw Apprentice (Jigsaw)
Jigsaw marked the first attempt to give the series a soft-reboot, and among the many reasons it fell flat was the fact that both plot twists were unimaginative rehashes of what fans had seen before.
Firstly, it's revealed that John Kramer (Tobin Bell) has yet another apprentice, this time pathologist Logan (Matt Passmore), who ends up framing Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) as Jigsaw in revenge for him freeing a criminal who ended up killing his wife.
Considering this is basically the fourth apprentice reveal in the series and Logan's a pretty uninteresting character, this wasn't the persuasively franchise-rejuvenating move the filmmakers clearly expected.
Secondly, it's also revealed at the end of the film that the central game actually took place an entire decade earlier, therefore explaining how Kramer could seemingly be "alive" in the present day.
The series had used clever editing to dupe viewers' perception of time far too often by this point, so this twist didn't make much of a dent beyond allowing them to lazily retcon Logan as Kramer's first ever apprentice. Meh.