Tobin Bell
John Kramer / Jigsaw
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.
Homepage | http://www.saw6film.com/ |
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Release Date | 2009-10-22 |
Runtime | 1h 30m |
Directors | Kevin Greutert, David A. Armstrong, Steve Webb, Sarah Buell |
Producers | Mark Burg, Oren Koules, Gregg Hoffman, Peter Denomme, Peter Block, Kaleigh Kavanagh, Daniel J. Heffner, Troy Begnaud, Leigh Whannell, Jason Constantine, James Wan, Stacey Testro |
Writers | Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton, James Wan, Leigh Whannell |
The Jigsaw Killer may be dead but the murders still continue...
So where were we at now then? Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is still continuing to do the bloody work of the dead John Kramer/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). In his sights is William Easton (Peter Outerbridge), an unfeeling insurance head who turned down claims by Kramer and a myriad of others on pathetic technicalities. Cue more elaborate traps, painful decisions and some twisty devilment. Yep! It's another Saw movie.
Somewhat surprisingly, part 6 is a step up in quality of writing and ingenuity of gore/trap factors from the previous two installments. It's still very much old hat as a formula, and once again the sequences of Bell used in flashback show him to be the franchise's strength. However, the makers put at the core an insurance issue that everyone can identify with, whilst piling on mystery and suspense by way of Jigsaw's left envelopes and the FBI closing in on an increasingly overt confident Hoffman. 7/10
— John Chard