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This movie. It's just really original and really good. The movie is all about a man named William Easton, who is the CEO of a large medical insurance company. His policy is that he doesn't give health coverage to anyone unless they're already young and in near perfect condition. What a dick. Anyway, Easton gets captured and put in a giant trap, which takes place in an abandoned zoo.
Abandoned just like the theaters for this film.
Anyway, the main draw of the game is that William's arms and legs are strapped with explosive devices and he must go through the zoo, taking part in smaller traps featuring the people from his company who helped him rip people off throughout the years. If he fails to complete a test or refuses to comply, the explosives will detonate and kill him. The second main point of the game is that there is a mother and son locked up at the end of William's given path. They are the family of a man who was denied coverage by William's company for no reason whatsoever and when he makes it to them at the end, they have a choice whether to kill him or spare him and have his sister die instead. William is placed in this trap because he was the one who denied John Kramer coverage when he learned that he was dying of cancer.
The main reason why I like this movie more than the others is that William actually learns his lesson while he's going through the tests. He doesn't seem callous or angry towards Jigsaw for placing him in the traps. He fully understands that he's done wrong and he tries his best to make amends for that while he's making his way through the zoo. In the end, he tells the mother and son to kill him because it's the only way that he can truly show how sorry he is for what he's done. That's something that you never see in these movies: a person with a true appreciation for his life. That's why this movie is so much better than some of the others.
I could take this key, but what's the point, man?
The other point in this movie is that Hoffman is trying to kill off the rest of the investigators who now know that he's the Jigsaw killer. So he gets both of them in a room together, stabs them both, plants Strahm's prints at the scene, and burns the room. However, that's not enough drama for this mama. When he goes back to the zoo to watch William's tests, Hoffman is attacked by Jill and placed in a reverse bear trap. This was what was given to Jill by John's lawyer in Saw 5, telling her that his last request was to capture him. Hoffman manages to stop the device from fully opening by jamming it inbetween two window bars, but by the time he frees himself, half of his mouth is already torn off. The movie then ends with Hoffman screaming.
Sorry sir, but The Walking Dead auditions are in the other studio.
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So, what stands out about this movie overall? Well, for one, the acting in this is much MUCH better than the others. Peter Outerbridge as William Easton does a terrific job expressing just how torn up inside this man truly is over what he's done. Costas Mandylor is still good as Hoffman and he does a good job with his new "crazy" role. On top of that, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell return in flashbacks.
The traps in this one are terrific. They're some of the most brutal and sadistic traps the series has to offer. A guy gets his torso crushed in a vice, a guy gets hung by a noose of barbed wire, a girl gets a spike impaled through her skull, four people get shot point blank by a shotgun, and a guy gets injected with acid and melts from the inside out. However, those all pale in comparison to the one trap from this movie that everyone remembers, because it is one of the most cringe-worthy moments in this entire series. I am of course talking about the "pound of flesh" trap:
*shudders*
Overall, Saw 6 is one of the best entries in the series for it's original plot points, fine acting, and actually having someone learn a lesson from the trap this time instead of just dying in it or surviving and hating Jigsaw forever. This movie gets a resounding 7 pounds of flesh out of a possible 10. Definitely check it out.
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