If you’re not satisfying your fans at this point, you’re not satisfying anyone.
If they’d actually tried, it couldn’t have been too difficult to just keep his appearance as a surprise, and there’s little else in here to faze the gorehounds who’ve followed the series from the beginning. On the other side of viewing Saw 3D, I really wish they had kept his involvement a secret until release. Not since Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic, The Room, have you seen overacting this stilted, or this far removed from human behaviour. The new worst actor In Saw, however, is Chad Donella as Gibson. Not to give away what goes on with his character, but he gets a silver medal for some acting that had people in the screening I attended laughing out loud. However, he now gets the bronze as two other newcomers make late, but impressively awful turns.įirstly, there’s Dean Armstrong as Cale. What would a Saw film be without a little dramatic sawdust billowing around our B-movie players? In my revisit to Saw V, I gave Greg Bryk the dubious honour of being The Worst Actor In Saw, and for his trouble, he makes a small cameo appearance here in a support group for other survivors of Jigsaw. Hell, most of the performances are wooden. Having bided her time as Jill for so many films, she’s reduced to the stock scream queen role here, running away and hiding behind cabinets. Mandylor is reduced to a perpetual grimace as he chases poor Betsy Russell around. Here, it’s pretty much Hoffman’s show, and with how much Costas Mandylor has previously paled in comparison with Bell, that’s really bloody boring. He’s the very best thing about this series, and we had a partial return to form with Saw VI because the focus was back on his machinations from beyond the grave. The series has only survived to this, its seventh instalment, because death was not the end for Tobin Bell as Jigsaw. Most criminally, there’s barely any John Kramer to be had. The story structure and the progression of the main game are disjointed and disaffecting, and aside from the opening sequence, the much anticipated public trap seen in the trailers, there’s the same old lack of imagination.
It suffers from the same symptoms of the franchise fatigue that plagued the fourth and fifth instalments. However, I personally find it difficult to imagine this being anybody’s favourite Saw film. There’s certainly a group of hardcore fans, who haunt places like the IMDb forums, and who will declare Saw VII to be the very best of the series and a fitting conclusion.
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