Saw X review: Brings back some much-needed tongue-in-cheek mischief to the franchise
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. John becomes both anti-hero and protagonist in a film that brings back some much-needed tongue-in-cheek mischief to a franchise that last suffered the hammy yet self-serious, Chris Rock-headlined Spiral. Since John kicked the bucket at the end of Saw 3 in 2006, the events of Saw X actually take place between the first and second films, as he struggles to accept his own mortality. He’s the perfect combination of psychotic and everyman, and is certainly more reasonable than his apprentice – and franchise regular – Amanda Young with her early 2000s-primed grunge look, cropped hair and inappropriate enthusiasm. Ten films in and it’s a routine we’re so intimately familiar with that it’d be hard to call any element of Saw X original but returning director Kevin Greutert knows what’ll satisfy his audience: a few buckets of blood and the gag-inducing sound of crunching bone.
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