And so it goes on to the fifth one. This one once again I was disappointed in much like the fifth one. I think the most disappointing feature is that now that Jigsaw is gone, his successor does not carry the puzzles the way that Jigsaw did. He does not really design the tests so that they have an actual chance of getting out and learning, he just kills them in cold blood. So the movie starts off with a pretty gruesome trap that has the man who murdered Hoffman's sister in it. This one is called the pendulum as there is a very large blade swinging above his midsection threatening to cut him in half if he does not smash his hands in the vices. Though he follows the direction and smashes his hands, the pendulum still saws him in half. This is what I meant by not letting them learn their lesson and killing them anyway. Strahm is attacked and wakes up with his head in a glass box which soon starts filling with water. He barely escapes when he grabs his pen and punctures his throat with it, releasing air so he can breathe. Jigsaw's ex wife is given a box and a note from Jigsaw from his lawyer and seeks the aid of Strahm's boss advising she thinks he is following her. His boss takes him off the case and Strahm confronts Hoffman to tell him that he suspects him to be involved with Jigsaw.
Five people wake up in a sewer attached to the same cable. If one person goes to far on the cable, the others are pulled back into a blade that will sever their head. The timer starts and they only have limited time to run forward and get the key to their collars. All but one person makes the time and one person loses their head.
Strahm does some digging and finds out the truth about the person killed with the pendulum and puts two and two together. Angry that Hoffman staged the murder pretending to be him, Jigsaw kidnaps him and threatens to blackmail him if he does not swear to work for him moving forward (this is a flashback by the way).
The next trap set up for the five in the sewer is for them to smash glass jars above their head in order to find keys to shelters to hide them from a bomb that will explode in a certain amount of time. The group starts fighting for the keys and one man goes down during the blast. In the next room, five cords must be connected to create a full circuit to open the next door. The group realizes the cords are not long enough to reach each other and must be connected by their bodies. One of the girls is stabbed in the neck to be sacrified and thrown into a bathtub. Once all cords are connected to her, the door opens. The last test is one of blood. The remaining two must stick their hands into a saw and fill up a glass full of blood to pass. It is here that they realize that all five people could have made it through the tests with minimal pain but instead there were only two of them left. The blades end up cutting their hands in half all the way up to about their elbows (they show the one guy's hand afterwards and it is just so awesome looking). I don't think I could have done it. I probably would have just let myself die which by the looks of it, both people looked like they either did or were close to dying anyway. They make it, but I'm not sure they live (they don't really say).
Hoffman places decoy evidence to incriminate Strahm as the Jigsaw apprentice and his boss puts out an all points bulletin on him. Strahm confronts Hoffman and pushes him into a coffin of glass that was originally meant for him. The coffin closes and starts to lower into the floor as the doors lock all around him. When the walls start closing in, Strahm realizes that he is trapped. The movie closes with Strahm being crushed to death while Hoffman watches from his coffin of safety.
So this movie was okay. Once again I am not really a fan of the franchise now that Jigsaw is gone. I felt like he was the deal because he actually provided real tests and everything was just so planned out perfectly that there was really no way he could ever be caught. He was the man in the movies and now that Hoffman is in charge it's just not as good. I gave this one a three for being pretty good.
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