Worse yet, the script and story give no reason for the audience to invest any sort of feeling towards either character. Neither character or actor is strong enough to carry the movie, and having them help drag the film's running time out just made the film weaker at every interval. Both are described and developed in the quickest and most superfluous of ways (although there could have been a touch more explanation for the importance of Gibson to the storyline), and then help fill in the gaps on the way to the film's conclusion. Instead of focusing on any of these characters for longer than a few seconds at the time, the film pays attention mostly to Flanery's character and a new detective, Gibson (Chad Donella). So much was tied up, answered and completed in Saw VI that this film feels merely like a film going through the motions to what should be the finale of the series. Hoffman's revenge ploy may drive the film, but he too barely appears. Jill was always a supporting player, but her screen time and presence has been drastically reduced even further. Jigsaw, a character who must hold some sort of record for remaining the lead despite having died four movies ago, merely appears in an extended cameo.

Gordon (Cary Elwes), there is nothing really notable about the film. Outside of the long awaited (and unfortunately spoiled) return of Dr. If that does not sound like much, it is because there is not much to Saw 3D. But Hoffman is not just out for her blood – he has set-up a new game for Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery), a survivor of a Jigsaw trap and self-help guru. After barely surviving a trap meant to murder him, Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is out for revenge on Jigsaw's (Tobin Bell) ex-wife Jill (Betsy Russell).

But much like its predecessors, it ended on a bit of a cliffhanger moment – leading us directly into Saw VII, or as it is more sadly referred to, Saw 3D. Instead of merely hinting at things, we were getting full explanations, things began to make sense, and the movie on the whole was just a very satisfying and very enjoyable film.

Where the other films quickly became standard exercises in torture and brutality, it was the first film in the series that really made an attempt at building and elaborating the overarching storyline that had been developed over the entire series. It was not a perfect movie by any means, but Saw VI was the first Saw movie that really surprised me.

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