Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Country: USA
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Main Stars: Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Minghella
Storyline: Saw like murders are happening again but this time within the police force itself.
Review (Spoils): A tough cop (Chris Rock) who is hated by many and has a background of police in his family is on the trail of several body pieces from different police staff or members. This all leads to a few police detective investigation across the city some with druggies, thieves, and other riff raff to find out all the connections.
While is happening one by one some of the police/detective staff get kidnapped with someone in a pig mask and plays within the game with a number of Saw like traps. Everything from water torture, electric finger thing, some saw blades, the normal tape recording of the puzzle, human skinning, some hot liquid thing on the face and of course its not a saw money if someone is not hanging up high some type of gadget. The gore is there but its not over the top its more of storyline thing.
Rating: Could not buy into this as a Saw movie. Yes, we have the spiral symbols, tapes, torture, deceit, pig masks and so forth but without Jigsaw this kind of reminded me more of Seven. Samuel L. Jackson did not fit in the movie to be honest and neither did Chris Rock. Sorry Rock makes a not believable tough cop sorry even the lame face expression does not help. Too me this felt like let’s jam some big names it so people will buy it as a Saw film. The film itself was not bad it just was not believable to be truly part of the franchise.
5/10 Beers!
Yacker
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