![]() ![]() He constantly looks like he'd rather burst into laughter, and has no idea how to play a tense scene without looking manic and sweaty. Unlike many comedians, he doesn't seem suited to horror and drama at all. Unfortunately despite some very likeable moments, he's simply not very convincing. Going full sweary in order to try to live up to the more serious tone of the movie, he puts in good effort, even getting a backstory as a 'rat' who turned on a corrupt partner in order to add conflict. Meanwhile, Chris Rock is an interesting lead. The plot, as usual, is silly and only exists to drive the gore and mutilations. The traps are quite hideous (one was so prolonged and disgusting that I did something I never do, and basically watched it through my fingers) and the gore is largely exceptional (apart from a few brief seconds of 'is it/isn't it realistic.?' that only momentarily distract). And we still have frustrated and badly flawed heroes trying to ineptly stop the carnage, all while the audience gets the impression that they might be too late.īecause people come to Saw movies for tension and inventive gore, we get lots of scenes of people trying to escape. We still have an elusive killer uses puppets and imagery & saying they want to 'play a game' before rendering judgement on folks and telling them what has to be done to ensure survival. We still get characters being stalked & abducted only to come around in some horrific trap that requires them to maim themselves to survive (or requires others to get maimed to help). It has more humour, but that's about where the changes end. There's actually very little about it that's new. Spiral is a 'Saw' movie in everything except name.
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