Jigsaw continues the legacy of John Kramer (Tobin Bell) after his death, but with two major twists, as is tradition in the Mountain range saga. Seven years after the supposed “final chapter” of Mountain range saga with Saw 3Dan eighth installment has arrived to shake up what audiences thought they knew about John Kramer and his entire history as the Jigsaw killer. Directed by the Spierig brothers, Jigsaw introduces viewers to a new group of “players” in Jigsaw’s twisted games, all chosen because they have some dark confessions to make.
Parallel to the game, Jigsaw follows the efforts of detectives Brad Halloran (Callum Keith Rennie) and Keith Hunt (Clé Bennett) to find the copycat Jigsaw killer who started this new game, when Kramer died in Saw III. Working with Halloran and Hunt are pathologist Logan Nelson (Matt Passmore) and his assistant Eleanor Bonneville (Hannah Emily Anderson), who become suspects after Eleanor is revealed to be a fan of Jigsaw. As expected in a Mountain range film, Jigsaw has a different ending, but this time doublewhich changed Kramer's story as Jigsaw.
John Kramer's return in Jigsaw explained
John Kramer is back, but with a twist
The big question that goes through Jigsaw is exactly who the killer is, as he talks like Jigsaw, uses Billy's puppet, and all the traps are in Kramer's signature style – except Kramer has been dead for a decade. The answer is complicated, but it all starts on the farm. Jigsaw opens with five victims in a room, each chained to a door on the opposite side and with metal buckets over their heads. Of these five victims, only four make it to the next phase and so on, until only two remain: Anna (Laura Vendervoort) and Ryan (Paul Braunstein).
After Anna nearly escapes, she and Ryan are drugged and wake up chained in a laboratory where the killer who manipulates everything is revealed to be none other than John Kramer himself. Anna recognizes him because they were neighbors, with John acknowledging that she and her husband helped him a lot while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Anna and Ryan don't seem surprised to see John Kramer alive, and that's when the first big twist happens. Jigsaw lies.
Every trap and victim in Jigsaw
Five new players, new deadly traps All of the victims led to the death of another person and repeatedly avoided facing it.
Before entering the first big twist JigsawIt's important to examine the players and the pitfalls they had to (or more likely tried to) survive. Following the message of the previous films in the saga, Jigsaw it deals with the atonement of sins, although taken to the extreme. What the eighth entry really directs, more than any other, is the retribution of the dead.
All of the victims led to someone else's death and repeatedly avoided facing it: Carly (Brittany Allen) was a purse snatcher who stole the purse of an asthmatic woman who had a seizure chasing her; Mitch (Mandela Van Peebles) sold a bike knowing the brake fluid was leaking; Ryan's drunken antics led to a car accident involving his best friends, which he blamed on them; and Anna suffocated the baby and blamed her husband, who killed himself in prison. They all took advantage of others to pass the blame, something Jigsaw intended to resolve.
Each of the traps is designed to make them confess their crimes and truly repent.although none of them succeed. First, all five players must shed blood as a form of sacrifice, and after one of them wakes up too late and is unable to save himself, each of the survivors is given their own challenge. Carly goes first and must admit that she let a person die for $3.53 by choosing the relevant syringe to cure the poison Jigsaw gave her, but she fails and ends up with acid in her bloodstream while Ryan injects the three syringes into her neck. .
Then, Ryan breaks the rules and his leg gets stuck in a machine that cuts off half of it when he pulls a lever to save Anna and Mitch from being buried alive in a different trap inside the room. With Ryan now unconscious, it's Mitch's turn, and he has to experience the unbridled speed and ferocity of the bike he sold on a giant spinning machine and hit the brakes at the bottom, but he fails and is destroyed by the machine.
Anna and Ryan are the last survivors, and in the aforementioned laboratory, they have the chance to recognize that salvation doesn't come from more murders when Kramer leaves a shotgun loaded with a shell for them to use, saying it is the key to their freedom. – and he was right, because he hid the keys to his chains in the shell. Anna takes the shotgun to kill Ryan, but it backfires and kills her, destroying the keys and leaving Ryan to die there too.
Jigsaw's Two Timelines Explained
Jigsaw's First Twist Is the Dual Timeline Setup
The first twist in JigsawWhat explains John Kramer's return is that the film is told in two timelines: one in the past, before the events of the first film, and another in the present, a decade after Kramer's death. In the end, it is revealed that the farm sequence was actually the first Jigsaw gamewhen he decided to seek retribution for his cancer diagnosis and try to make others value life. That's why he opted for flawed people he knew, why none of them had any idea what was going on, and why they didn't follow the rules.
This turnaround Jigsaw also provides a few more pieces to how Kramer became Jigsaw: the farm belonged to Kramer's wife, a key presence in the later original films who was killed in Saw 3Dand among his herds there were pigs, which explains his affinity with the animal. In fact, there were some clues that things weren't perfectly aligned that initially seemed like glitches in the timeline, like the bodies that showed up in the murder countdown with different injuries compared to what was shown on the farm.
In the current timeline, there was a copycat of the Jigsaw killer who had Kramer's MO so well studied that they successfully fooled the detectives, and what they were doing was recreating Jigsaw's first “game” now with criminals that Detective Halloran had freed as victims – and that's when JigsawThe second killer twist and revelation is.
Who the Jigsaw impersonator really was?
The Jigsaw Copycat Hiding in Plain Sight
Until Kramer's revelation, Jigsaw launches many potential imitators. The obvious first choice is Eleanor, a huge Jigsaw fan who takes perverse pleasure in working on Jigsaw's victims and is so obsessed with Kramer and his “games” that she has acquired several traps and kept them in her “studio” – and she went to which concerns the construction of one of his first undiscovered experiments from Kramer's designs. Things soon change when Logan suspects that Halloran is the killer, as he is known for breaking the law and for his brutal ways.
These accusations end up being part of the real killer's plan, as the Jigsaw impersonator is actually Logan. He was the hospital employee who accidentally mislabeled Kramer's first scans detailing cancer, leading to a late diagnosis and thus inadvertently creating Jigsaw. Logan was one of the original five players in the first game: the sleeper who was apparently killed in the circular saw trap. However, the lack of seriousness of his crimes attracted Kramer's sympathy, and he decided to save him at the last minute and take him on as an apprentice.
Logan's purpose was not just to copy Jigsaw, but to evoke that initial game to get revenge on Halloran.
Logan and Kramer worked together on classic trapsincluding the reverse bear trap, which Logan showed particular interest in upon seeing them in Eleanor's studio, and developed his doctrine: they do not show anger or revenge, but speak for the dead. Logan's purpose was not just to copy Jigsaw, but to evoke that initial game to get revenge on Halloran. Among the many dark things Halloran did as a detective was freeing killers and causing the deaths of innocents, including Logan's wife, who was killed by Edgar Munsen, a player in Logan's “game.”
In order for his plan to work, Logan tweaked the audio from Kramer's original tapes to create “new” recordings and obtained frozen blood to make it appear that Kramer survived. Logan's victims were all linked to Halloran so he could frame himand even planted the victims' skin puzzle pieces in his freezer. Logan's plan lures Halloran to the farm, where they fight and Logan tells Eleanor to run, and he and Halloran suddenly find themselves in a final trap with laser collars.
The lasers will fire and cut off their heads unless they confess to their true crimes, but Logan's is false, something he reveals just before cutting Halloran's head into eight. Logan recorded Halloran's confession before revealing the entire scheme (along with Anna and Ryan's skeletons) to him, and cut off the detective's head with the laser before leaving the room.
How The Puzzle Ending Compares to Other Movies Seen
It has a lot in common with Saw IV
When it comes to Mountain range franchise, the end of the installments is probably the most memorable part. It all started with the 2004 original, which features the shocking revelation that John Kramer, the real Jigsaw, was the “dead” body on the bathroom floor the whole time. It remains one of the most surprising horror endings of all time and is iconic for that reason. Later entries followed this formula, from learning that Amanda is Jigsaw's apprentice to Jigsaw's death to finding out that Dr. Gordon was alive the whole time.
It became expected of these films, even if they couldn't top the first one. However, Saw IV has taken an interesting path that puts it in line with what happened in Jigsaw. Both Jigsaw and Saw IV play with time and only reveal this to the public during the third act. In 2007 Saw IVit was revealed that the events of the film were happening simultaneously with Saw III. Although this does not involve exactly two timelines in the same way as Jigsawmakes the films similar.
Neither film was met with widespread acclaim from viewers or critics, and that extends to their shocking endings. However, Jigsaw handles both timelines a little better, as there's so much more to juggle throughout the narrative. There were questions about the Jigsaw twist regarding the killer and the timeline that remains confusing even years after its release. In that regard, Saw IVThe ending is a little better because at least it makes sense within the larger, complicated context. Mountain range timeline.
How Jigsaw Sets Up Future Films
Jigsaw wasn't the end of the saga either
If the world of Mountain range If you decide to expand again with chronological sequels (i.e. a sequel to Jigsaw), you have the perfect villain.
Jigsaw was another supposed final chapter in the Mountain range saga, but it only paved the way for another sequel, which became one of the most hated entries in the franchise. Spiral is an independent sequence of Mountain range saga, but followed in the footsteps of Jigsaw with a copycat killer – only this time it was predictable and off-putting. Spiral was a critical and commercial disappointment, but the franchise came back to life with Sawa sequel set between the first two films in the saga.
However, if the world Mountain range decides to expand again with chronological sequences (i.e. a sequel to Jigsaw), has the perfect villain now as Logan, along with Dr. Gordon, is Kramer's only apprentice who is still alive. Jigsaw added to the backstory of the title killer, albeit not with some plot holes and questions, and gave some closure to the timeline.