| | | Suffering? You Haven't Seen Anything Yet...
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Unrated, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Jigsaw has disappeared. With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police, has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) and Jeff (Angus Macfadyen) are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
"An improvement over the tedious "Saw II"...shifts the focus to the relationships among the characters." Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide
"...a more affecting study in grief, guilt and human frailty than "Babel."" Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly
"...may be the best of the trilogy..." Scott Tobias, The Onion A.V. Club
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS OCTOBER 27, 2006This third part of the SAW franchise finds the evil Jigsaw (Tobin Nell) torturing some new victims in his trademark style.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Saw III - DVD By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/12/2007 5:00 PM | |
The Saw series, like most horror franchises, uses a lot of constants in its formula -- even when those constants don't seem particularly vital to the quality of the series. Saw III, for example, matches its predecessors in the dubious categories of histrionic yelling, equally histrionic smash-editing (often incorporating a generous helping of re-used footage, from the previous films or even from earlier in this one), and plot twists that depend on those histrionics to drown out implausibility....read the full review |
| Saw III Unrated - DVD By: Matt Paprocki - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/24/2007 10:13 PM | | Coming in yearly intervals, the Saw franchise has built its reputation on the two things it does extraordinarily well -- shocking twist endings and a keen sense for how much brutality audiences can stand. This third and possibly final entry in the series stands up to its predecessors in both categories, though maybe not in the follow through....read the full review |
| Saw III - Unrated Edition - DVD Review By: Brian Holcomb - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/28/2007 11:22 AM | | For all its nervous noise and mechanical tension,Saw III isn't very scary, just annoying. Their popularity aside, these are hard films to enjoy. They are designed to fill the viewer up with the most primal tension of bodily dismemberment and then leave them hanging without catharsis. This is why the theme of Saw III is utter nonsense. Forgiveness' Maybe in real life we could learn a thing or two about the emptiness of revenge but in this loud, screeching video game meat grinder, everything is reduced to the lizard brain. KILL! CUT! SMASH! SURVIVE! DESTROY! ...read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 7/1/2008 |
| Running Time: 113 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2006 | | Catalog ID: 20809 | | UPC: 00031398208099 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Sight and Sound
"[R]icket, intricate and ruthless. SAW III takes the time to include flashbacks which answer plot questions raised in the earlier movies." 01/01/2007 p.76Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his third entry in the horror franchise is gruesomely good stuff....With some decent twists and turns..." 03/01/2007 p.105 Los Angeles Times 6 of 10
Horror sequels tend to be exercises in creative sadism: same abattoir, different Roman numeral. Giving a pound of flesh where it's due, the "Saw" franchise doesn't just look for new settings on the grinder but also aspires to hack out a meaty story arc. "Saw III," however, winds up with the rest of the gristle...Bottom line, those in the "Saw" factory know their audience and have brought along the appropriate buckets and bibs. Even devotees, however, may note pacing problems and tire of Jigsaw's selective omnipotence (he can acquire copious amounts of deadly nerve agent but not a bottle of Ativan?). Those who see "Saw III" are in for ups and downs. - Michael Ordona
Variety 8 of 10
Unlike the disturbingly mysterious original, "Saw III" is a neatly wrapped-up package that explains everything -- including Jigsaw's evil contraptions and the background of his crazed female assistant...With the superb, gravelly-voiced Bell now mostly confined to a bed, more of the load is on Smith, who is not as effective in the nasty department. MacFadyen delivers a strong, almost silent performance that conveys a pained father's dark night of the soul, while Soomekh (the distressed Iranian daughter in "Crash") is reasonably convincing as the surgeon...Dark, ghoulish look of "III" is identical to "II" thanks to production designer David Hackl (who also handled latter) and lenser David A. Armstrong (who has been with "Saw" since the beginning). - Robert Koehler
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