It’s unbelievable that there have been nine gut-wrenching Saw movies since the original movie made its classical debut on Oct. 29, 2004.
This year on Sept. 29, 2023, we were given the 10th, and most heinous installment.
Saw X is directed by Kevin Greutert and written by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg who have written the previous three Saw movies.
The movie takes place in-between I and II. The movie begins with John Kreamer, played by Tobin Bell, being diagnosed with a stage four cancerous brain tumor.
The problem with Kramer’s brain tumor is that since it’s already at that high of a stage there is nobody who will legally operate on it because it is highly dangerous to his life.
Miraculously, Kramer finds out about a “Martini and Surgery” from a friend who had supposedly taken this surgery and was now perfectly healthy which I believe wouldn’t be possible since you would be permanently scarred and damaged.
Kramer was interested in the surgery, so Kramer used the cell phone number and link that his friend had given him and managed to get on the “Trials” but he had to go to Mexico within a week.
After John takes the trial surgery and finds out they haven’t actually cured him, the movie leads into the classical jigsaw theme, which I enjoyed, if you crossed John Kramer then you were to play his game, if you lost you lost and if you won you won.
Overall, I enjoyed the movie. The acting was on point: from the screams to the blood to the fear in the actors’ eyes, it was like they were actually afraid of the torture games they were about to die in.
I believe that the ideas for the traps were a little less interesting than the old traps in the previous movies, but the traps were still horrifying and made you wonder if you yourself would be able to escape them to survive.
The movie had me on the edge of my seat the entire time and had me near the toilet close to throwing up. It really shows the way that Saw has changed over the years and it brought back the fair and winnable Jigsaw games that only John Kramer – the one and only true Jigsaw in my opinion – could have shown. The movie is an 8/10.
