Jigsaw (2017) - Laura Vandervoort

Jigsaw Movie Trailer (2017)

I confess, I find the gory “Saw” movies’ ridiculously severe approach to dramaturgy to be endearingly preposterous. Imagine a dimwitted Agatha Christie-style whodunit where a killer has trapped a room-full of victims in a single location. Stop laughing, Christie’s “Ten Little Indians” is spot-checked in several scenes of “Jigsaw,” the latest film in the undying horror-mystery series: a handful of victims claimed by serial killer John “Jigsaw” Kramer (franchise staple Tobin Bell) are discovered with index cards on their bodies that read “And then there were [Insert dwindling number of corpses here].”

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Jigsaw (2017) - Hannah Emily Anderson

Jigsaw (2017)

The film starts with a chase between police and a criminal named Edgar Munsen (Josiah Black). After crashing his car against police cruisers, Edgar runs to a rooftop and is surrounded by police as he holds a trigger in his hand. He asks for Detective Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie), who shows up as the other cops have their guns drawn on Edgar. He tells Halloran that he has to decide who will die, or else Edgar himself will die. Halloran takes out his gun just as Edgar pulls the trigger. The cops blow off Edgar’s hand and destroy the trigger, but someone has shot Edgar in the chest against Halloran’s orders. A weakened Edgar tells Halloran that the game has begun.

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