Saw III: Critic Reviews

82%

MovieWeb: 13 reviews

25%

RottenTomatoes: 86 reviews

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

42

Admit it: It's not every horror film that can make you feel preached at and slimed at the same time.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times (Top Critic)

10

Saw III, with its barrage of grungy rooms, mortified flesh and elaborate torture, is a highly creative exercise in bloodletting, with a bleak view of human nature.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

25

What's remarkable about these movies is how much the craftsmanship degrades with each episode. This is a long, scrambled, indifferently made affair. There's no rhythm to the sequencing.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Rob Nelson Village Voice (Top Critic)

God or Jack Valenti only knows how this work of pure entertainment got an R rating 'for strong grisly violence and gore, sequences of terror and torture, nudity and language.'
Full Review » 6 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)

38

Just like its increasingly wan antihero, this blood-soaked series is on its last legs.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Tirdad Derakhshani Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

The question for moviegoers: Would you rather get your dose of existenz-philosophie from Dostoyevsky or a slasher flick?
Full Review » 6 years ago
Colin Covert Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

25

Saw III is duller than a plastic steak knife.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Randy Cordova Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

20

Even splatter-film buffs should be offended by this piece of nonsense: Not because it's so gross, but because it's so dumb.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robert Koehler Variety (Top Critic)

A bigger problem lies with Leigh Whannell's script, which utilizes so many flashbacks and explanatory inserts that the tension, a defining feature of the first Saw, is lost.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

Saw III is nasty, repulsive, disgusting -- and loaded with enough viscera to probably sell at least $30 million worth of tickets this weekend.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

40

The premise is bogus to anybody with all their albumen intact.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Jason Anderson Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

50

Tedium eventually sets in again, the movie's murky visual schema and overly aggressive editing style marring any attempts at subtlety. Worse yet, the Jigsaw Killer remains a smug, unscary bore.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Frank Scheck Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)

The inevitable deadening effects of repetition are beginning to infect the Saw franchise, now having produced its third installment in as many years.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Ordona Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

40

More gore is really all III has to offer.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Brian Holcomb Kinetofilm

40

Images jump, blip, strobe, and shock like an epileptic seizure - all the result of director Darren Lynn Bousman's lack of trust in his screenplay.
Full Review » 2 years ago
Wesley Lovell Oscar Guy

50

Witness the distortion of the series' original premise bastardized by those who believe they know better.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed

Full Review » 3 years ago
Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com

34

The extreme gore is gratuitous, and character development non-existent in a movie packed with the cookie-cutter visual design of the previous two films. Torturer, victim and audience become one.
Full Review » 3 years ago
Tom Meek Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 3 years ago
Michael Szymanski Hollywood.com

60

Full Review » 4 years ago
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Humanick Projection Booth

0

Face your fears. A lesson worthy of praise, if the film preaching them weren't so completely full of ****.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy

10

Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

20

Starts with an interesting premise but quickly squanders it on the usual barely-glimpsed bloodbaths.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Brian Tallerico UGO

One of the most sadistic, brutal, grisly films of the current splatter-porn genre.
Full Review » 5 years ago