DVD Review

Saw III (2007)

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Release Date: Oct 27, 2006; Rated: R; DVD Release Date: Jan 23, 2007; Genre: Horror; With: Angus MacFadyen and Tobin Bell; Distributor: Lions Gate Films

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By Clark Collis

Clark Collis

Clark Collis is a senior writer for EW

The Saw films are a cut — or should that be a slash? — above most frightfests in terms of both plotting and philosophical ruminations. But at times movie No. 3 in the series seems to forget that its primary raison d'être is to scare the pants off people. Even the goriest sequence — in which a kidnapped doctor must perform brain surgery on the franchise's chief villain, Jigsaw — is more for fans of ER and/or power tools than frights.
EXTRAS Deleted scenes, docs, and three amiable filmmakers' commentaries (''That transition was Scorsese-worthy!'').

Posted Jan 19, 2007

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