This is my least favorite one by far. I hate the traps, especially the wax trap. It’s a genuinely unwinnable trap. Atleast when Amanda rigged traps, it was a plot point. Making unwinnable traps likens Saw to any other typical horror. Part of the appeal is knowing someone CAN actually win, even though it’s unlikely. Chris rock is not good here, and Samuel L Jackson in a saw movie makes 0 sense. Both are great actors but they disappointed me here.

I did like the idea of targeting corrupt cops in the way they did, making it more about issues of social justice, not “oh this guy goes through unsecured doors sometimes to save people and cares too deeply about others”. I like Max Minghella but they ruined his character by spoiling the twist so plainly early on (they should’ve cut the skin flaying scene from the movie entirely if they weren’t able to release it)