Edgar Cochran ✝️’s review published on Letterboxd:
For fans of the franchise, a fan service well done, and definitely a step-up from more than half of the seri….
Whoa! Hold on! A Mexican yellow filter storm is coming! Reviewing this will be troubleso….
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*cough cough*
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨There’s too much filter in my eyes; I can’t see well. 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨Anyway, it’s cool to have Tobin Bell and Shawnee Smith back, both accurate to their respective personalities. 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨It’s 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨interesting to place Tobin in a place of danger and Amanda in a situation of jeopardy, and knowing that this is a canonical prequel, you kn 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨sorry... you know the final outcome, so how can we have a twist. 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨It’s pretty lame from this POV, but what adds value to the analysis is: place the murderer that uses irrational excuses to say he’s not a murderer 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 *cough cough* 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 as a victim of the evil medical corporative interests, a nod to Saw VI. This is a nice throwback 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨
🟨 🟨 🟨 These are the only special elements, plus the original theme returning and also the epic Lionsgate presentation making a comeback with the rusty meshes and metallic doors having a strong visual correlation with this sadistic series.
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Hell, that was a lot of filter. I should finish soon. Let me move to another place.
*Flies away from Mexico through tumbleweeds*
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Make no mistake, this is no masterpiece, nor the best film in the series: the original, low-budget indie still works (counted) wonders. This is the fourth best, marginally below the third one, but the success has guaranteed Saw XI, and well... it’s trash that I grew up with since I was 14, all the way to 33, so traditions die hard.
Also, any centennial that says that the Mexican yellow filter is “Breaking Bad” filter instead of Traffic (2000) filter, please form lines so I can replicate the severed leg trap in here with y’all while I put some yellow dirt in your eye 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨.
48/100
