Blood and Gore are often two words that are highly associated with the Saw franchise, and while I'm not a fan of either of those things I definitely AM a fan of the Saw franchise. Now some may say my opinions here are bias and I promise I'll try my best to give you the most critical and harsh review possible. However, I won't change my own opinion. So here we go. This is my review of Saw VI (Saw 6).
Alright so I'm going to start off with the highlight of the movie, which is the story. Now for some reason the Saw movies for me always had this huge presence within the story. Almost as if it was originally a book turned into a movie, and that's not the case which is somewhat of a down point. The original saw movie was directed by James Wan who then got followed up by Darren Lynn Bousman. After Bousman it was David Hackl and Kevin Greutert. Now while they all did a fantastic job with directing and stuff I feel like the absence of the original writers, directors and producers may have somehow altered the storyline from what "it could have been." or at least "What was originally envisioned." Now Saw still has an amazing storyline provided you followed all the movies and the absence of storyline is NOT something you'll have to worry about in Saw VI. The story still remains and continues into Saw VII. However this time around there's not really any twists or anything that blow your mind like before, but none the less it's solid and can provide a decent amount of entertainment and enjoyment.
Moving onto Graphics, or in Saw's case, Blood and Gore. Saw is known for blood and gore and if that's your thing, you'll be more than happy with this installment. The intro sequence is one of the more graphic scenes in the franchise and had even myself looking away at moments as a rather large man cut out his own stomach in an attempt to place his fat on a scale and free himself. Now sorry if that was considered spoiler to any of you, I consider it for-warning. Now presentation was done well however I felt like a lot of the originality was lost in some of the traps this time around. Sure, it's not like we seen these traps before, it's just that they lost a lot of their WOW factor and while it was a good attempt it didn't fully succeed. Matter of fact, I don't even think the trap displayed on the cover of the movie box is even in it, but maybe that's just me.
On a musical stand point. What can I say really? I love how the all the pieces were original and not some Rob Zombie knock off. The quality in sound-effects is actually quite outstanding now that I think of it, a few scenes come to mind where I got chills at the realism but I won't go in detail as to ruin anything.
Overall I feel like with this installment it lost a little of it's Oumph! but not enough to damage the series in anyway. Saw withstood the test of time so far and even with this installment down-toning the original wow factor a tad bit, I'm still excited as ever for Saw VII this October!
SCORES:
Locke Downe : 8.5 out of 10
Nigel Barnes (TheGamerz01) : 8.5 out of 10
Stephanie Saunders : 8.5 out of 10
OVERALL: 8.5 out of 10
- Locke Downe
No comments:
Post a Comment