Just when you hoped that the “Saw” franchise was truly dead and buried, it gets revived with a rather mundane reboot. “Jigsaw” is pretty much just more of the same. It’s more graphic violence and another needlessly complex story that is not remotely engaging.

A group of strangers are trapped inside a farmhouse with sinister traps. With bodies turning up around the city, it appears the sadistic Jigsaw (Tobin Bell “Saw”, “Mississippi Burning”) is back but he’s been dead for over a decade. Time is running out as the authorities try to find out if the notorious killer has somehow returned or if this is just the work of a copycat.

The characters in this movie are just awful. Everybody is really unlikeable and just annoying. There are so many twists and turns thrown in just for the sake of it that by the end, you don’t believe anything about any of them as another big revelation could be hiding right around the corner. I did not care about any of them in the slightest so I didn’t care when they were being gruesomely killed. The mystery of Jigsaw was extinguished along time ago and it’s just getting duller and duller to see more and more revealed about him.

If you are not a fan of gore then you will despise this film. People are sliced by saws, stabbed by knives, shot in the face, burned by acid and cut into pieces with lasers. There are also plenty of lengthy sequences with dead bodies. These scenes are incredibly graphic so do be warned that this is a seriously ugly movie to look at it. It’s just as violent if not more so than “Se7en” and “Silence of the Lambs”. If you are somehow that liked the other “Saw” films and you find the crazy stories compelling then I’m sure you will be satisfied by “Jigsaw” but everybody else should stay far away from this flick.