Jigsaw movie review

On Oct. 27, Jigsaw, the eighth movie in the Saw series, was released and reached $16 million in box office during its first weekend shown in theatres, a little under Saw (2004) $18.2 million first week in box office. Jigsaw centers around five victims in a game of torture and death set in present time. But the law officials are also in a game of their own; running in circles and questioning themselves whether or not John Kramer, or more famously known as Jigsaw, really did die ten years ago. With its directing and bad execution of lines and gestures, I would have thought Jigsaw was a low budget TV series, not a movie belonging to the most well known horror franchise. There were moments where the dialogue between the officers seemed too forced and not natural, I got bored and tuned out - I even started counting how many wrinkles the actors had. However, besides the redundant topics and cheesy humor that was exchanged, the movie had action right from the start and a major plot twist revealed towards the end of the movie. Plus, the gore and torture was on point - the gruesome visuals were worth enduring the cringey dialogues.This is just a typical gorey horror movie after all; it’s not meant to have outstanding acting and deep monologues. Jigsaw had its jaw dropping moments, it also had its boring and predictable scenes. But it did achieve a good level of horror and graphic shots throughout the movie, much like Saw II and Saw III.