So Tobin Bell, now dead for 3 movies, still manages to be a major part of the plot and screen time for the Saw series in his Jigsaw rule. Let's face facts, the flashbacks are getting tiresome. Sooner or later I'm afraid that he is going to start talking to prospective killers from beyond the grave, not much unlike such visions of obe-wan kanobe to Luke after his run-in with Darth Vader in the original Star Wars. Putting that aside, this is another worthy sequel from the horrow series a lot of us love come to love, and is a regular activity as Halloween approaches each year.

The franchise expands to give a larger role to his wife, and as the authorities get closer to identifying the "new" Jigsaw killer, the unraveling of the true plot comes into focus. The cold, calculating, brute nature of Jigsaw's last remaining appentice, obviously had given him Jigsaw pause before his death, and thus there was a "test" planned for him as well. Overall, the movie spends a lot of time tying up loose ends from Jigsaw's life, leaving us wonder how much could possibly be left on the butcher's floor to scrap up a Saw VII next Halloween season.

Truthfully, if you love the test, moral objectivity, and intricate nature of traps and decisions that Saw gives you, this will be satisfying as the rest. The test takes place in an abandoned zoo this time, and involves a lot of people in life or death situations that actually aren't to blame in any way. The main test revolves around a medical insurance claims examiner, and his job to use a "formula" to decide who does and does not get coverage. He is tied to jigsaw from his unwillingness to approve John (Jigsaw) for a clinical trial for cancer during his life and is forced to make life and death decisions for his friends and colleagues by being forced to see "beyond" the formula. His fate is ultimately decided, not by him, but by those lives that he affected during his life.

Overall, I'll grade this movie as a B. It does what it is supposed to do. It grosses you out, makes you cringe, and also kinda makes you think a little bit about the world and how we each look at things. I'll be going again for Saw VII, after all, it is a tradition!