“Saw 3D” (also known as “Saw: The Final Chapter”) is the seventh entry in the abysmal “Saw” franchise. For several years, it was the last “Saw” movie but of course, there was money to be made and plenty of cinemagoing suckers out there. By this point, the “Saw” films had become farcical with traps that seem more like something out of cheesy gameshow.

Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery “The Boondock Saints”) has made a career by selling his story of surviving torture at the hands of the sadistic Jigsaw (Tobin Bell “The Firm”). However, he’s a fraud and now he is going to pay for his sins by being at the centre of the latest series of traps by Jigsaw.

This one was shot in 3D so get ready to see the characters get ripped up in even more gory detail than the previous films in the series. We know that most of the characters can’t possibly survive because then we wouldn’t get to see their blood fly towards the camera. I didn’t care about the characters and the way these films just keep contorting to throw in new mysteries about the characters from the earlier instalments is just laughable. Linkin Parker singer Chester Bennington has a cameo role.

“Saw 3D” allowed the “Saw” franchise to join “Friday The 13th”, “Amityville Horror” and “Jaws” in having a 3D instalment. This was intended to be the conclusion of the “Saw” saga and the plot was just such a mess by this point that this movie just had no hope because how do you redeem the irredeemable? I guess you can’t and that interestingly parallels the way the films show terrible people often still failing to learn from their mistakes as they are subjected to the sadistic traps of Jigsaw and his followers. “Saw 3D” may entertain the franchise’s devotees but I did nothing for me.