20 Horror Movies That Fall Apart In The Final Act
6. Saw X
Saw X - in which Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) goes after a group of scam artists who pretended to cure his brain tumour - is one of the best Saw movies, for sure, and most of it is legitimately very good. However, the final act needed work - like, a lot of work.
Towards the end, two of the scam artists break free of their traps and take Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) hostage. They force Jigsaw and Carlos (Jorge Briseno), a local child whom Jigsaw had befriended, into a final trap before heading into the building's control room to retrieve some money. But, of course, Jigsaw is one step ahead of them, and they've just walked into a new trap, as the room seals and begins to fill with toxic gas, while they activate a tripwire that also frees Jigsaw and Carlos.
In stark contrast to the rest of the picture, this final stretch was just dull, and the traps featured weren't especially imaginative. Furthermore, the main scam artist - Cecelia (Synnove Macody Lund) - suddenly started acting like an OTT, moustache-twirling Bond villain, while these final scenes also make too much of an effort to portray Jigsaw as the good guy, so it all gets a bit weird.
At the very end, Cecelia is left alive and is robbed of a proper ending, further adding to the general sense of anti-climax. The mid-credits scene was good, though, so that's something.