This is an improvement on the last attempt to bring "Saw" back, by virtue of feeling vaguely relevant and like it's enaged in its characters rather than being a dull rehash of the best bits, though it still suffers from extended flashbacks-that-you've-already-seen and a villain who's supposed to be a surprise but who feels way too obvious. The thematic look at police corruption is pretty good (although the line "Jigsaw never killed cops" is .. um, not particularly accurate), Chris Rock is not so great at the dramatic moments, Samuel L. Jackson clearly only signed up for a few days but makes them count, and it mostly works as a middling entry without all the convolutions of the later plots that turned the series into extremely gory soap opera. I enjoyed this while making the mental modifications for this just being a regular old saw movie
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