And we've got Lynn ( Bahar Soomekh), a nurse being forced to take care of a dying John Kramer ( Tobin Bell), or a shotgun collar operated by Amanda ( Shawnee Smith) will obliterate her face.
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So we've got Jeff ( Angus Macfadyen) going through a series of traps where he can forgive the people who caused his son's drunk-driving death or (usually) let them die. Unfortunately, like number five, Saw IIIalso runs into a "too much going on at once" problem, muddling any sense of message trying to be conveyed among its pure jolt of nihilism and truly, truly gross violence.
One of the grimmest Sawsequels (and that's saying something!) thuds to a close with one of the grimmest endings I've seen in any movie, Sawor not. Saw V's final moments leave its audience in a similarly insulated, safe, and very confusing coffin of nonsense. It's also hard to track who our protagonist is here - I think it's Hoffman? - and harder still for the twist to mean anything since it's a somewhat natural conclusion of the protagonist's goal. Phew! A lot is going on here, involving a lot of plot moves and manipulations of already known information, rather than sucker-punching us with a great piece of recontextualization or discovery. Strahm is now going to die moreover, Hoffman is going to release a bunch of doctored evidence framing Strahm as the Jigsaw acolyte Hoffman actually is! Then, Strahm gets smushed to death, his blood and guts splattering on top of Hoffman's smiling safety coffin. And then he listens to the rest of the tape, wherein Hoffman/Jigsaw reveals that the way to survive was toget into the coffin. Strahm smashes Hoffman into what's clearly some kind of death coffin, thinking he has won. So in lieu of another mammoth reveal on that level, the final twist instead comes from Hoffman's method of dispatching of another detective who's been onto him, Strahm ( Scott Patterson). Whoops!Īs for our bigger, more serialized plot twist, we know throughout the film that Hoffman ( Costas Mandylor) is our new Jigsaw acolyte. As our final two participants Greg Bryk and Julie Benzneatly realize, every single trap was designed for the five to get through by working together. They get picked off one at a time, with one participant ( Carlo Rota) going so far as to spit out "Survival of the fittest" before thwacking the shit out of one of his "opponents." Unfortunately for him, and the rest of the trapped folks, the way to play this game was not to out-survive each other, but to survive together. The self-contained trap B-story involves five people responsible for a fatal house fire fighting their way through a series of gruesome traps, per usual. Unfortunately, by delivering two twists in a row, the film dilutes the impact of both - and the power it thinks it possesses in its macro, "Hello Zepp"-using one is simply not there, as it doesn't deliver much we didn't already know. Saw V has, kind of, two twist endings, a micro in-game one and a macro "The Ongoing Adventures of Hoffman, Jigsaw 2.0" one. RELATED: 'Spiral: From the Book of Saw' Ending Explained: Who's Playing Who? Crank yourself some "Hello Zepp," and let's get a-twistin'.
They might not always make sense and they might start to pull the same move over and over, but goshdarnit do these twists represent a particularly bold storytelling impulse, and goshdarnit are they all "entertaining" in one shape or form. Thus, we've examined and ranked every single Sawtwist ending in the nine-film franchise. But when a film is defined by being surprising, the capacity to truly "surprise" can get ham-fisted by expectation - and by, frankly, a lack of "good twist ideas" remaining on the table. Every Sawtitle wants to pull the rug out from under you, to reveal something bold, provocative, and shocking before cutting to credits. In all of these titles, one common element remains: The need for a twist ending sucker punch. Lionsgate earned a ton of change on it, churning out more and more films, resulting in one of the more complicated, knotted, and hardcore-fan-centered horror franchises ever - not to mention two attempts at "back to basics" legacy sequels.
Springing from the brains of James Wanand Leigh Whannell, the original turned heads with its intensity, its violence, and its humdinger of a twist ending. I'm talking, of course, about the Sawfranchise.
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