Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel gave the film one out of five stars saying, "It's all bunk and has been for years. These are all no-win scenarios. Whatever moral lessons were presented in the earliest Saw films seem to have been dispensed with as the movies grow more and more gruesome, with filmmakers caught up in 'What would it look like if somebody's jaw was ripped out, or their skin was glued to a car seat?' Pandering to the 'Cool, let's see that again' crowd has made Lionsgate rich but done nothing for this unendurable endurance contest of this long-enduring film franchise".[81] Mike Hale of The New York Times called the film the most "straightforward" of the series and the "most consistently (though not inventively) violent". He ended his review saying, "If you see the film in a theater equipped with RealD 3D and Dolby sound, you'll come away with a pretty good idea of what it would feel like to have flying body parts hit you in the face".[82]
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Elizabeth Weitzman of the New York Daily News gave the film one out of five stars. She criticized the lack of Bell's screentime saying, "What the filmmakers of the last four Saw movies have somehow overlooked is that Tobin Bell's Jigsaw is the linchpin of these films. It's right there in the title, so you'd think they'd realize what they lost when they killed him off in Saw III. But it's been downhill ever since, and we hit bottom today". She admitted that the performances have become "painfully stilted" and called the script "a jumble of nothing punctuated by barely-trying death traps". She went on to say, "It's also disappointing to watch a once-original franchise morph into a generic slasher series, in which random people are killed in banal ways just to up the body count" and closed her review with, "No matter how much money The Final Chapter makes over Halloween weekend, it's time to acknowledge that this game is over".[83]
Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe called the film the "most gruesome and least coherent of the seven movies". He felt that some of the film's "games" were just randomly forced into the film, saying that kind of "episodic approach" and 3D works for a "far more innovative series like Jackass 3D". Morris closed his review by saying "This alleged final edition trashes the perverse morality of [Jigsaw's] legacy to make him the Jerry Springer of gore".[84] Jason Anderson of the Toronto Star gave the film two out of four stars. He praised Saw 3D's plot for not being as confusing as previous films, for which he described as having to "generally require an encyclopedic knowledge of the series' many plot strands" in order to understand them. He thought Greutert gave the film a "pulpy energy" and described the film's traps and gore as having an "unpretentious sensibility" to films by Herschell Gordon Lewis.[85]
Before they put Adam Sandler through the wringer, the Safdie Brothers concocted this "gem." A white-knuckle ride from start to finish and any doubts about Robert Pattinson's acting ability were decidedly vanquished. This is one of the best crime drama movies, and while it is very dramatic it also one of the best crime thrillers out there.
Ben Affleck cited The Departed (2006), Heat (1995), Mystic River (2003), and The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) as influences on this film. Of them, Affleck said "All are R-rated movies in that same vein, and the movies I used as the gold standard of success here."
While this is one of the best crime movies out there, it is very different from many of the other crime films on this list. No big shootouts or classic organized crime, but still plenty of good crime to watch.
As far as crime drama movies go, this is one of those crime films that shows the connection between family and a life of crime. Director Scott Mendes may be more famous for working on films like American Beauty, Skyfall, and 1917, but his work in Road to Perdition is certainly some of his best.
Action crime movies can be a lot of fun, and director Edgar Wright does a great job creating conflict by mixing a good-hearted character in the lead role surrounded by greedy criminals. Best of both worlds.
DESPITE THE CLOSURE OF VIRTUALLY ALL original grindhouse cinemas (Schonherr 126), the twenty-first century is hardly a "post-grindhouse" era. As a concept, "grindhouse" has transcended the American cultural context out of which the term arose. The films once shown in grindhouses continue to find new audiences. US distributors such as Grindhouse Releasing offer uncut, remastered versions of such films as Pieces (1982) and I Drink Your Blood (1970). Something Weird Video specializes in distributing low-budget films such as Eve and the Merman (1965) and Gold Train (1965) that otherwise would have been forgotten by all but the most avid paracinema aficionados. Since 2005, UK-based distributor Nucleus Films has released four volumes of Grindhouse Trailer Classics, and Synapse Films has released six DVD volumes of grindhouse film trailers along with twenty-two compilations of 8mm stag films in its 42nd Street Forever series. Nostalgia for the grindhouse era is propagated by publications such as Robin Bougie's Cinema Sewer (1997-), documentaries including American Grindhouse (2010) and 42nd Street Memories (2015), and fan Web sites such as 42ndstreetpeteforever. com and Grindhousedatabase.com (both established in the first decade of the 2000s). Both David Church's Grindhouse Nostalgia and John Cline and Robert Weiner's collection From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse attest to continuing scholarly interest in grindhouse. "Grindhouse" movies' formal properties and themes have been emulated in contemporary films, ranging from Tarantino and Rodriguez's $53 million double feature Grindhouse (2007) to numerous lower-budget direct-to-video (DTV), or direct-to-DVD, neo-grindhouse films such as She Kills (2015) Jessicka Rabid (2010), and If a Tree Falls (2010). These neo-grindhouse filmmakers frequently and overtly appropriate elements from their forebears. For instance, the poster design used to promote Gutterballs (2008) is lifted from I Spit on Your Grave (1978); the scenes of genuine animal cruelty in Seed (2007) are reminiscent of movies such as Cannibal Holocaust (1980); and Chaos (2005) purloins its plot from The Last House on the Left (1972). In sum, "grindhouse" lives on in the cultural imagination, despite the loss of grindhouse theaters.
However, tensions arise out of the transference from Forty-Second Street's flea-pit cinemas to the consumption of "grindhouse"--movies, associated paraphernalia, and literature about the era in which grindhouse theaters flourished--in the home (mainly via DVD). If "grindhouse" is to remain meaningful in the twenty-first century (and clearly the term is still employed as a signifier), more needs to be done to account for the digital home-cinema context in which grindhouse is now principally consumed, particularly with regard to the move away from theatrical, analog distribution and the impact that shift has had on the concept of "grindhouseness." 2ff7e9595c
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