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Avg. Critic Score: 30 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    Who knew that the franchise's creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense? Read full review

  • 60
    The New York Times |

    Warm feelings are inspired by the reappearance of old friends, even those who had their faces ripped off or their intestines ejected several films ago. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    It might well be time for a creative rebooting; the freshness, if not the viscera, has begun to strongly diminish. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    Because Saw does nothing to alter the look, tone, and engineered gimmickry from one movie to the next, it keeps going deeper into backstory and character arcs than horror series past, as if this ugly, cheap-looking schlock were somehow "The Lord Of The Rings." Read full review

  • 40
    Variety |

    A film so frighteningly familiar it could well be called "Saw It Already." Read full review

  • 30
    Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov

    For fans, however, Saw VI is, pardon the pun, a cut above the rest but not, sadly, by much. Read full review

  • 25
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The thinnest, draggiest, and most tediously preachy of the Saw films. Read full review

  • 20
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    One we wish we hadn't seen Read full review

  • 0
    L.A. Weekly |

    Taken just as an objet d'art, Saw VI - gray, grisly, solemn, stupid - would be about the most dismal thing I've ever laid eyes on, the argument against film preservation. But it vaults into the realm of real detestability through pretensions of relevance. Read full review

  • 0
    Los Angeles Times |

    Terrible acting, zero suspense, laughable logic and the promise of another one next year. How can we get this policy canceled? Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Sixth film in revenge series is just as bloody as the rest.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this "torture porn" film, like all of the movies in the Saw series, revolves around cruelty, gore, and diabolical deathtraps -- all smothered in horrific make-up and special effects. A person is injected with acid until they literally melt in half; a group of people are shot, one by one, at point-blank range; and so on -- the deaths are brutal, bloody, and lingered over (viewers will see exposed organs, compound fractures shoving shattered bone edges through flesh, and worse). The movie is theoretically trying to make a few points about healthcare, but any social commentary is lost amid the buckets of blood and constant strong language.
  • Families can talk about the popularity of the Saw movies. What draws audiences to movies like this?
  • How do the violent images in movies like this impact viewers, especially young ones? Why do you think there's been a trend toward these "torture porn" movies in recent years?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: There's some lip service paid to the human will to live, but it's coated in blood. A critique of health care and for-profit insurance is intrinsic to the film's plot, but it's also smothered in gore.
  • rolemodels true0 Positive role models: Not a single character in the film shows mercy, kindness, or forgiveness when given the chance. The protagonist displays some selflessness but still dies at the hands of someone desiring revenge. 
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Constant bloody, grisly violence, including horrifying deathtraps requiring self-mutilation in order to escape, fighting, shooting at point-blank range, dismemberment, disembowelment, decapitation, death by crushing, hanging (by barbed wire), slashed jugulars, shootings, being set on fire, and much more. And it's all depicted with state-of-the-art makeup and gore.
  • sex false1 Sex: Some cleavage.
  • language false5 Language: Constant strong language, including "f--k" and its derivatives, "s--t," "ass," "p---y," "hell," "goddamn," and much more.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters drink beer, wine, and hard liquor. Discussions of the health effects of smoking (smoking itself is shown); a smoker's reduced lung capacity winds up being what kills him (as part of a deathtrap, of course). Discussion of the psychological characteristics and chemical treatment of addiction, including methadone.
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