People have got to stop fucking with John Kramer.“Saw X” hits theaters this weekend, and while every installment in the now ten-film franchise could be attributed to one of the Og Jigsaw’s three ridiculous backstories (car crash! wife’s miscarriage! brain cancer!), this is the closest the series has come to producing an outright revenge flick.
Brutal, self-aware, and roughly 30 minutes too long, it’s a face-to-face cage match between John and a surprisingly formidable new foe that’s perhaps best summed up by the “Bones and All” line: Never eat an eater.Tobin Bell stars in a “Lion King 1 1/2” situation that lets us visit the notorious, “hands-off” serial killer between the events of “Saw” and “Saw II.” Alive and in-person, we’re meeting Kramer a few weeks after he trapped Cary Elwes and Leigh Whannell in that basement for “Saw,” and some months before he throws that Nerve Gas Rager (feat.
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