is the SAW franchise actually good again??

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Saw X is chock full of everything we’ve been wanting for years: Jigsaw (alive), Amanda (young?), & Kevin (Greutert)! Somehow it all comes together and actually works. For this Saw fan at least! Lets see if it works for Jake & Mike…
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ERIC STRIFFLER
Since 2004, Eric has been creating content on the internet including movie/TV commentary series Pretty Much It and improv comedy series Pity Applause, as well as IRL projects including writing & directing the immersive theatre production Nyctophobia and producing the off-Broadway show The Life & Slimes of Marc Summers. He's also been living & traveling the country in a van since 2017.
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Since 2013, Eric Striffler and his funny friends have provided comedic commentary for your favorite (and least-favorite) movies & shows! These are not reactions, they're commentary tracks focused on funny bits & conversations inspired by whatever we're watching. The full commentary tracks are heavily edited down for highlight videos posted here on CZcams. New commentary tracks every Monday & Friday on / prettymuchit - 1,000+ tracks and counting! Go tigers!!!
PLOT
John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is told he has only months to live due to advanced brain cancer. He attends a cancer support group meeting and befriends Henry Kessler (Michael Beach), who later claims he has been cured by an experimental Norwegian cancer treatment conducted by a group led by Dr. Finn Pederson (Donagh Gordon). A desperate John contacts the doctor's daughter Cecilia (Synnøve Macody Lund), who refers him to her clinic outside Mexico City.
On arrival in Mexico, John is driven to the clinic and introduced to Cecilia and her team - Mateo (Octavio Hinojosa), Valentina (Paulette Hernández), and Dr. Cortez - as well as patients Gabriela (Renata Vaca) and Parker Sears (Steven Brand) and the caretaker's young son Carlos (Jorge Briseño), with whom he bonds. John goes under for surgery and awakens to Cecilia telling him that he is now cancer-free. However, upon returning to the clinic, he finds it abandoned. He uncovers a video simulating his supposed brain surgery and removes his bandages to find no scar on his head, revealing the entire operation to be a scam.
Deducing that "Dr. Cortez" was his taxi driver Diego (Joshua Okamoto) in disguise, John kidnaps and interrogates him, then forces him to play a "game" where he must remove pipe bombs wired into his arms by cutting through his flesh, which he completes successfully. Meanwhile, Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith) helps him abduct Cecilia and also abducts Mateo, Valentina, and Gabriela. They wake up in the clinic, now subjects in Jigsaw's games.
Valentina is tasked with severing her leg with a Gigli saw and extracting enough bone marrow that will connect to a gauge and deactivate the trap. She manages to amputate her leg but is unable to collect enough marrow, and a second Gigli saw decapitates her.
Parker breaks into the clinic, demanding his money back. Amanda restrains him while Mateo is forced to drill into his own skull and remove a piece of cerebral tissue to dissolve in a test tube and obtain a key. Although he successfully performs the task, the tissue fails to dissolve in time, and a heated mask closes over his face. Next, Gabriela is suspended from shackles and subjected to ionizing radiation, tasked with freeing herself by using a sledgehammer to break her shackled limbs. She succeeds, but before Amanda can take her to a hospital, Parker forces them at gunpoint to release Cecilia.
Cecilia kills Gabriela by breaking her neck and reveals she called Parker, who is part of the scam, to rescue her. She forces John to chain himself into the trap meant for her. When she hears Carlos outside, she takes the child and chains him opposite John. The trap begins waterboarding them with blood. Parker and Cecilia go to retrieve their bag of stolen cash from John's control room but activate a tripwire, sealing them both in the room and freeing John and Carlos. A deadly chemical gas begins filling the room; the only respite is a ventilation hole large enough for one person's head, forcing Cecilia and Parker to fight each other. Cecilia kills Parker but can only watch as John, Amanda, and Carlos exit the facility, leaving her trapped.
This is an audio commentary ONLY. It is meant to be watched along with the movie so you can raise or lower the volume on the commentary or the movie itself as you wish.
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