Banks gets assigned a new rookie partner ( Max Minghella) and they are assigned to find Boswick’s killer. Everyone else in the precinct is a jerk, it appears. This crossed the cop code, and Banks, the son of the former chief ( Samuel L Jackson), has been ostracized for years. Boswick was Banks’ only friend after Banks turned on an old dirty cop partner of his who killed a criminal witness. Word gets back to the precinct, and it hits officer Zeke Banks (Chris Rock) particularly hard. As it turns out, this Detective Boswick ( Dan Petronijevic) was a bit of a dirty cop, and his torture/justice was a nod to his crimes. It is a classic Saw conundrum and the result is appropriately gory. The movie opens strongly, with an undercover cop chasing a burglar into a tunnel, only to get surprised by a man in a pig mask, and wakes up with his tongue in a vise and suspended above a subway train track. Hey, there’s a man in a pig mask behind you! Dan Petronijevic in Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) Spiral: From the Book of Saw has turned Saw into a police procedural drama with a copycat killer, which is a natural for this series, as Jigsaw is something of a legacy that gets passed on from one copycat to another. Spiral: From the Book of Saw attempted to remedy some of the problems of the lack of serious plots and characters and was the brainchild of star comedian Chris Rock, who pitched the idea to Lionsgate Films and is an executive producer on the film as well as the star. The films took on a bit of a reputation for being something of a geek freak show and were super-light on character and plot, making the franchise vulnerable to the oncoming tide of the well-scripted character-heavy horror dramas in the coming decade. Like the old ’80s warhorse franchise horror films, the quality of each successive film dropped, and though the traps would be fiendishly imaginative, the plots were decidedly not. The Saw franchise was built on incredibly imaginative lose-lose traps that people of dubious ethics would have to decide between pain and/or dismemberment or certain death.Įach of the Saw movies would feature a taunting villain, Jigsaw, who would devise these devilishly nasty conundrums and people often would opt to save their skins at the very last moment… but too late to escape their deadly fate. It was so successful, on such a small budget that it spawned a movie a year for six straight years. It ushered in the popularity, for better or worse, the torture-porn phenomenon of the early 2000s. The original Saw movie was a jolt to the horror system by way of James Wan and Leigh Whannel. It felt like this was going to be a breakthrough horror film. The movie had a lot of hype building up behind it, and Lionsgate felt confident enough with this film that they waited through the pandemic to release it. Spiral: From the Book of Saw had its heart in the right place and attempted to inject new life into a listing franchise in need of some fresh ideas. Spiral: From the Book of Saw attempts a fresh start to a somewhat tired franchise, and packs in A-list celebrities into a pedestrian plot, that ties itself up with too much exposition and not enough of the tricks and traps that made Saw such a draw. But it has so many ties to the mythos of Saw.” Since David Fincher’s seven-deadly-sins film frequently veers from thriller territory into oh-god-what-is- that? horror, it’s easy to see how Rock’s film might push that boundary further through the Saw lens.Chris Rock and Max Minghella in Spiral: From the Book of Saw ★★1/2 out of ★★★★★ We wanted it to feel much more like Seven. “He pitched this very elaborate, dense idea. “Chris came in with a thriller concept,” he says. Speaking to Empire in the new issue, Spiral director Darren Lynn Bousman – who previously helmed Saw II, III, and IV – says it isn’t just the previous movies in the series that Rock is drawing from, but also from one of the most acclaimed serial-killer thrillers of all time. But his idea for the notoriously gory series has proved fruitful, resulting in Spiral: From The Book Of Saw – an upcoming reboot-of-sorts that sees Rock himself play detective Zeke Banks, on the trail of a sadistic serial killer. It’s one of the unlikeliest combinations in recent Hollywood memory – Chris Rock, known primarily for his gregarious comic performances, being the main creative force behind a revival of the Saw franchise, known primarily for its extreme torture-horror contraptions.
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