Saw III - I give up

Having watched the second of the Saw films on a recommendation I decided to check the next one out. I didn't really enjoy the second one, but I thought it would be nice to be able to complete the set. No longer though. I have now given up on the Saw films after watching Saw III last night.

Saw III opens with a scene of a man trapped in an underground bathroom; he has to smash his ankle off in order to try to escape. Then we get a man in a room connected to lots of chains, he has to pull the chains out of his skin in order to escape. This is all sick, but not nearly as sick as the fact that none of these events seem to ever have any connection with the 'plot' of the film. In fact the whole of Saw III is one long excuse for people to come up with ridiculous ways of murdering extras using medieval torture devices.

None of this makes any sense. The logistics of setting all these traps up without anyone finding out about it is mind-boggling; none of it can possibly be based in reality. If there was any sense left in this series then was finally all lost in the scene half way through Saw III in which someone performs brain surgery - which we see in grisly detail. This is not one of Jigsaw's many traps, nor is it torture, nor does it turn out to have any important impact on the plot. It's just brain surgery, which we get to see 5 minutes of purely because it's nasty and will make people heave up in a cinema.

I have no problem with disturbing imagery in film, but while the original contained that too, it also contained a story. Saw was an original thriller with a great twist as well as being visually horrible. These spin-offs have turned out to be nothing of the sort, and I will not be watching any more of them.