There are two subplots in the movie, and they have a single mutual concern: how is John Kramer alive and well enough to torture people in an undisclosed barn(?), and what will Detective Halloran ( Callum Keith Rennie) and his medical examiner colleagues Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore), and Eleanor Bonneville (Hannah Emily Anderson) do to stop somebody who’s already dead? The solution to both questions is both more obvious than you think, and flat-out too hard to imagine.

This is funny since Jigsaw‘s winningly bonkers twist ending is the crux of the film. That death was confirmed in Saw IV, which begins with a thorough autopsy of Kramer’s body. The first thing you should know before you see Jigsaw is that John Kramer died at the end of Saw III. This comparatively tamped-down story is a remarkable change from the series’ earlier entries, given how previous sequels frequently pause events just to cram in more flashbacks and expository dialogue (more on this shortly). All viewers really need to know to understand what’s going on in Jigsaw is that John “Jigsaw” Kramer, an engineer who died from brain cancer ten years ago (according to this film), has resurfaced and he is now torturing and killing strangers again for the sake of meting out the kind of justice that the police or the legal justice system simply cannot. There’s also a significantly streamlined backstory here.

Jigsaw features far fewer - and shorter - scenes of forgettable meat puppet characters screaming, groaning and crying after their bones are broken, limbs split or blood drained at a shockingly fast rate.

And, to be fair, co-directors Michael and Peter Spierig ( Daybreakers, Predestination) and co-writers Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg ( Piranha 3D, Sorority Row) do half-heartedly downplay some of the more tedious elements that have come to define the earlier Saw movies.įor starters, the “torture” aspect of the fatal death-trap “tests” that serial killer John “Jigsaw” Kramer (franchise staple Tobin Bell) puts his victims through is taken down several notches. Jigsaw, the seventh sequel in the seemingly deathless Saw horror series, enters theaters with a lot of baggage.

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