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Movie ID: 742
RT slug: spiral_2021
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/spiral_2021
Release year: 2021
Runtime: 93 mins
Wide release date: 2021-05-14
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: —
Tomatometer final: 39%
Audience score final: —
Genres: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Directors: Darren Bousman
Writers: Josh Stolberg, Peter Goldfinger
Producers: Mark Burg, Oren Koules
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: Chris Rock
Created: 2026-06-14 16:15:44
Updated: 2026-06-14 16:15:44
A detective and his rookie partner investigate a series of gruesome murders that appear to echo the city's dark Jigsaw past.
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Canonical reviews: 233
Canonical fresh: 90
Canonical rotten: 143
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 39%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-14 16:07:04
Snapshot Tomatometer: 39%
Snapshot review count: 233
Snapshot fresh count: 90
Snapshot rotten count: 143
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1285 (full_snapshot)
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| 2 | Max Minghella | William Schenk |
| 3 | Samuel L. Jackson | Marcus Banks |
| 4 | Marisol Nichols | Angie Garza |
| 5 | Dan Petronijevic | Marv Bozwick |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 168817 | David Day | Horror Movie Talk | Fresh | 6/10 | 2025-09-18T22:17:30Z | 2025-09-18 22:17:30 | While Spiral tries to give us a new take on the perspective from which a normal Saw movie is shot, it delivers a very on-brand Saw movie nonetheless. |
| 168818 | Matthew Rozsa | Democracy at Work (Substack) | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2025-09-10T19:41:32Z | 2025-09-10 19:41:32 | If you want to watch a thought-provoking and scary horror movie that can be summed up as “Defund the Police: The Movie,” you should check out “Spiral.” |
| 168819 | John Daniel Tangalin | The Cinema Spot | Fresh | — | 2025-07-19T13:33:28Z | 2025-07-19 13:33:28 | I would argue that there are just not enough kills in the story. Not just that, but there is only one female character with a sizeable role, making everything about the men. |
| 168820 | Maxance Vincent | Film Speak | Fresh | A- | 2025-07-13T22:37:28Z | 2025-07-13 22:37:28 | Finally, a solid ‘Saw’ sequel. |
| 168821 | Joonatan Itkonen | Region Free | Rotten | 2/5 | 2024-07-11T23:03:21Z | 2024-07-11 23:03:21 | It’s such a wasted effort that recommending even half of it feels hard. Wait for the inevitable Netflix run, and tune out when there’s half a film left. You won’t miss a thing. |
| 168822 | Xero Gravity | Big Gold Belt Media | Fresh | 3/5 | 2024-07-08T14:15:15Z | 2024-07-08 14:15:15 | "Make us work harder. For Christ's sake, we're horror fans, this is not our first who-dunnit rodeo. The goods were given up way too early." |
| 168823 | Cris Parker | 3C Films (YouTube) | Fresh | — | 2023-08-09T03:58:41Z | 2023-08-09 03:58:41 | The real trap was presenting something new, only to be given the same formulaic Saw movie once again. The added humor and talent does make this better than most Saw entries. |
| 168824 | Manuel São Bento | MSB Reviews (Ghost.io) | Rotten | D+ | 2023-07-24T22:13:54Z | 2023-07-24 22:13:54 | Spiral might offer enough blood, gore, and brutal traps/murders to fans of the franchise, but overall it's still just another lazy, predictable take on the SAW formula. A strong yet abrupt ending doesn't compensate for such dull storytelling. |
| 168825 | Maggie Lovitt | Millennial Falcon Reviews | Fresh | B | 2023-03-27T14:45:43Z | 2023-03-27 14:45:43 | Just as the Jigsaw Copycat Killer leaves spirals at his crime scenes, Spiral will leave you spiraling. |
| 168826 | Dallas King | Flick Feast | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-11-12T20:06:43Z | 2022-11-12 20:06:43 | If you are asked to play a game with Spiral, just politely decline and go on your way. It might be time to call Game Over on our friend Jigsaw. |
| 168827 | Zoë Rose Bryant | Loud and Clear Reviews | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2022-09-01T07:04:03Z | 2022-09-01 07:04:03 | Spiral may stick to the Saw formula structurally, but the film’s scathing social commentary helps this sequel stand out regardless. |
| 168828 | Chase Hutchinson | The Sunbreak (Seattle, WA) | Rotten | 1/2 | 2022-08-17T22:01:10Z | 2022-08-17 22:01:10 | There may be just enough to intrigue the subsection of fans of the franchise who couldn’t care less about the story and are only here for the terrifying new torture traps. |
| 168829 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-08-17T19:19:23Z | 2022-08-17 19:19:23 | If not for the three or four signature torture contraptions scattered throughout you could easily dismiss this as just another bland and uninspired police procedural. |
| 168830 | Prahlad Srihari | Firstpost | Rotten | 1/5 | 2022-08-09T00:00:51Z | 2022-08-09 00:00:51 | The film's attempt to rejig a creatively insolvent series proves to be as futile as its killer's attempts to reform the criminal justice system. |
| 168831 | Josh Parham | Next Best Picture | Fresh | 6/10 | 2022-06-08T01:48:45Z | 2022-06-08 01:48:45 | Credit should be given for the work to slightly reinvent the traditional storytelling these films thrived on in the past. |
| 168832 | Victoria Luxford | City AM | Fresh | 3/5 | 2022-03-02T15:03:32Z | 2022-03-02 15:03:32 | If you found the average Saw movie hard to stomach, then this will be a medium ground that may prove more accessible, and certainly more coherent. |
| 168833 | Carson Timar | Clapper | Fresh | — | 2022-02-22T20:18:11Z | 2022-02-22 20:18:11 | Where Jigsaw tried to say Game Over to the franchise, Spiral proves that there are more levels of this game to explore. |
| 168834 | Brian Eggert | Deep Focus Review | Rotten | 2/4 | 2022-02-12T21:17:22Z | 2022-02-12 21:17:22 | Admittedly, the series has never interested me, and Spiral didnt turn me into a convert. |
| 168835 | Stephanie Archer | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2021-08-14T02:20:58Z | 2021-08-14 02:20:58 | While it has some issues along the way, Spiral: From the Book of Saw proves there is still more of the story to tell. |
| 168836 | Víctor López G. | Espinof | Rotten | — | 2021-08-06T10:10:14Z | 2021-08-06 10:10:14 | A second-division thriller that holds on the 'Saw' brand like a huge lifesaver of sympathy and indulgence. |
| 168837 | Rohan Naahar | Hindustan Times | Rotten | — | 2021-08-06T09:20:14Z | 2021-08-06 09:20:14 | Chris Rock's Saw reboot has the look and feel of a moderately-budgeted Mountain Dew commercial. |
| 168838 | Matt Brunson | Film Frenzy | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2021-07-31T15:30:28Z | 2021-07-31 15:30:28 | A surprisingly strong opening stretch spirals downward into sheer silliness by the end. |
| 168839 | Andrew Lim | Mediaversity Reviews | Rotten | C | 2021-07-13T05:10:06Z | 2021-07-13 05:10:06 | It feels good to see the badass Captain Angie Garza hold her own in a male-dominated cast. |
| 168840 | Linda Cook | OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-07-08T21:02:43Z | 2021-07-08 21:02:43 | 'Spiral' continues gory legacy of 'Saw.' |
| 168841 | Emmanuel Noisette | The Movie Blog | Fresh | 6.5/10 | 2021-07-07T22:19:54Z | 2021-07-07 22:19:54 | True to the Saw franchise's nature, Spiral didn't hold back when it came to the high level of gore and violence... It's not a terrible watch, but I wouldn't expect it to blow you away either. |
| 168842 | Mike Scott | Times-Picayune | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-06-29T17:00:48Z | 2021-06-29 17:00:48 | Unfortunately, of all the things this Saw is, sharp isn't one of them. |
| 168843 | Travis Johnson | Mr. Movie's Film Blog | Fresh | — | 2021-06-29T00:51:58Z | 2021-06-29 00:51:58 | 'Serviceable' feels like faint praise, but that's really what the film is. |
| 168844 | Amanda the Jedi | Amanda the Jedi (Youtube) | Fresh | — | 2021-06-28T20:01:11Z | 2021-06-28 20:01:11 | Bringing Saw back from the dead could have really worked, sadly, while a fun theatre experience, this doesn't quite cut it. It felt like a Criminal Minds episode where someone forgot to tell the new guy it had to be safe to air on network television. |
| 168845 | Nicolás Delgadillo | Discussing Film | Fresh | — | 2021-06-26T01:21:51Z | 2021-06-26 01:21:51 | 4 / 5 Just might be the best of the entire franchise. |
| 168846 | Pete Vonder Haar | Houston Press | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-06-20T04:40:11Z | 2021-06-20 04:40:11 | Ultimately, the Saw movies aren't about the psychology of Jigsaw, but about the cyclical nature of violence and how our past actions come back around on us, right? Ha ha, no. |
| 168847 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Rotten | C- | 2021-06-18T20:20:50Z | 2021-06-18 20:20:50 | A stale rehashing of the saga's tropes with different characters going through the motions. |
| 168848 | Walter Chaw | Film Freak Central | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2021-06-16T22:10:59Z | 2021-06-16 22:10:59 | It's so familiar it's fatiguing, another one of these projects that begins with passion and the best of intentions and ends up chewed to paste and regurgitated as this thin, masticated gruel. |
| 168849 | Dan Buffa | KSDK News (St. Louis) | Fresh | B- | 2021-06-12T20:40:14Z | 2021-06-12 20:40:14 | Few asked for another "game," but at least Bousman's latest attempt has a (halfway at least) mind of its own and delivers some thrills. |
| 168850 | Tim Brayton | Alternate Ending | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2021-06-10T08:30:07Z | 2021-06-10 08:30:07 | In attempting to avoid making an ordinary Saw movie, the filmmakers abandoned the franchise's handful of strengths while diving headfirst into its flaws. |
| 168851 | Mikel Zorrilla | Espinof | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-06-09T04:30:14Z | 2021-06-09 04:30:14 | 'Spiral: Saw' entertains when it recovers its sadistic games but fails in its attempt to renew the saga. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 168852 | Steven Warner | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2021-06-06T19:17:41Z | 2021-06-06 19:17:41 | By dumbing down the material ... Rock, Bousman, and co. have delivered a Saw film missing more than a few puzzle pieces. |
| 168853 | Scott Weinberg | Thrillist | Fresh | — | 2021-06-04T22:01:26Z | 2021-06-04 22:01:26 | Pretty much made for established fans only, which is fine, plus it's a legitimate improvement over the last two Saw sequels. |
| 168854 | John Serba | Decider | Rotten | — | 2021-06-04T20:50:35Z | 2021-06-04 20:50:35 | If Spiral was intended to be a reinvention of the series' formula, nobody tried very hard. |
| 168855 | Mia Vicino | Willamette Week | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-06-03T22:40:35Z | 2021-06-03 22:40:35 | Spiral seems to have a noble goal of exposing the force's corruption and brutality, and in the first half, it even succeeds. But as the plot unravels, so does the movie's political statement, leading to a disaster of an ending. |
| 168856 | David Nusair | Reel Film Reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2021-06-03T21:40:27Z | 2021-06-03 21:40:27 | ...a seriously disappointing followup that is, astonishingly enough, the franchise's weakest, least interesting entry. |
| 168857 | May Leitz | Nyx Fears | Rotten | — | 2021-06-02T23:00:22Z | 2021-06-02 23:00:22 | It's really dated...and there's not much in this film. |
| 168858 | Rachel West | That Shelf | Rotten | — | 2021-06-02T19:00:30Z | 2021-06-02 19:00:30 | Chris Rock brings the Saw franchise back into the spotlight as a police crime thriller that disappointingly fails to live up to its full potential. |
| 168859 | Thom Ernst | Original Cin | Fresh | — | 2021-06-02T13:30:15Z | 2021-06-02 13:30:15 | The latest installment in the SAW horror franchise adds some new twists and characters, notably Chris Rock, but remains faithful to the original concept for better or worse. |
| 168860 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B- | 2021-06-02T08:20:07Z | 2021-06-02 08:20:07 | It's entertaining, Rock gives a solid performance and it gets its laughs from some Quentin Tarantino-like Pulp Fiction riffs. |
| 168861 | Norman Wilner | NOW Toronto | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-06-01T21:20:39Z | 2021-06-01 21:20:39 | ...it soon becomes clear that screenwriters Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger, who were also behind the previous reboot attempt Jigsaw, are less interested in breaking new ground than in playing the hits... |
| 168862 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Rotten | — | 2021-05-30T14:10:11Z | 2021-05-30 14:10:11 | Doesn't just do the bare minimum in its purported attempt to tackle problematic cops, but demonstrates the same contentedness to merely tick boxes with the franchise's grisly staples, too. |
| 168863 | Alan Jones | Radio Times | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-29T03:10:12Z | 2021-05-29 03:10:12 | No doubt die-hard Saw fans will be painting the town red. |
| 168864 | Bob Chipman | Moviebob Central | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-05-26T20:10:30Z | 2021-05-26 20:10:30 | Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson bring star power and a curious lack of anything else to the latest attempt at re-starting the "SAW" franchise; in which a Jigsaw-inspired serial killer taunts a onetime police-corruption whistleblower. |
| 168865 | Lucy Buglass | Lucy Goes to Hollywood | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-26T19:00:22Z | 2021-05-26 19:00:22 | While not as gruesome as some of its predecessors, Spiral does have some interesting traps which fit the ironic punishments that fans of the franchise have grown to love. |
| 168866 | Mark Kermode | Kermode & Mayo's Film Review | Rotten | — | 2021-05-24T22:50:28Z | 2021-05-24 22:50:28 | I like being scared; what I don't particularly like is being grossed or winced out. |
| 168867 | tt stern-enzi | Fox19 (Cincinnati, OH) | Fresh | — | 2021-05-24T22:40:28Z | 2021-05-24 22:40:28 | I have to admit, I liked this film...and a great opportunity to get back into a theater. |
| 168868 | Stephen Romei | The Australian | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-24T22:10:24Z | 2021-05-24 22:10:24 | Director Darren Lynn Bousman, on his fourth Saw film, keeps things fresh while also nodding, via the pig mask and a scene involving handcuffs and a hacksaw, to where it all began in 2004. |
| 168869 | Beth Accomando | KPBS.org | Rotten | — | 2021-05-24T21:50:25Z | 2021-05-24 21:50:25 | See this if you are a Saw fan or Rock fan. Otherwise, there's nothing of interest. |
| 168870 | Scott Wilson | One Room With A View | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-05-24T11:20:21Z | 2021-05-24 11:20:21 | Better in theory than execution as many of the Saw films are, Spiral is a disappointment. |
| 168871 | Jon Espino | HollywoodChicago.com | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-22T07:30:11Z | 2021-05-22 07:30:11 | [Spiral] tries so desperately to be part of a bigger conversation like The Purge but ends up falling so short that it's more in league with the likes of The Human Centipede, only nowhere near as novel. |
| 168872 | Robert Denerstein | Denerstein Unleashed | Rotten | — | 2021-05-22T01:30:27Z | 2021-05-22 01:30:27 | Unapologetically committed to his portrayal and to genre demands, Rock again shows that he doesn't need to be confined to comedy. In Spiral, though, he can't escape the downward pull... |
| 168873 | Santiago Alverú | Cinemanía (Spain) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-21T17:00:35Z | 2021-05-21 17:00:35 | [It] wants to be The Wire, Training Day, a Rock stand-up special, and a Turkish soap opera. Nothing can withstand that lack of focus. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 168874 | Shirley Li | The Atlantic | Rotten | — | 2021-05-21T16:40:32Z | 2021-05-21 16:40:32 | In trying to save itself, the Saw series got caught in a convoluted trap of its own making. |
| 168875 | Claudia Puig | FilmWeek (LAist) | Rotten | — | 2021-05-21T14:00:23Z | 2021-05-21 14:00:23 | Here you have really good actors in a really mediocre movie. |
| 168876 | Amy Nicholson | FilmWeek (LAist) | Fresh | — | 2021-05-21T14:00:22Z | 2021-05-21 14:00:22 | I was just happy watching Chris Rock having fun in this movie, even if I wasn't really having fun watching people get their limbs torn off. |
| 168877 | Susan Granger | www.susangranger.com | Rotten | 5/10 | 2021-05-20T23:50:32Z | 2021-05-20 23:50:32 | Filled with a gory, repellent depravity that's destined to gross-out any squeamish audience. |
| 168878 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Fresh | 6/10 | 2021-05-20T14:30:27Z | 2021-05-20 14:30:27 | Chris Rock's natural funniness adds a new twist to this jigsaw puzzle. |
| 168879 | Scott Phillips | The Screen Scene | Rotten | — | 2021-05-20T13:50:25Z | 2021-05-20 13:50:25 | the film becomes yet another generic horror film that is more gory than scary. Even the star power of Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson as Rock's father can't kick-start this lackluster story to life. |
| 168880 | Lee McCoy | DrumDums | Rotten | 4/10 | 2021-05-20T11:20:19Z | 2021-05-20 11:20:19 | Spiral isn't a revolutionary new take on a tired franchise, but a lesser version really. The twist is so damn disappointing and cliché. Rock is his normal frustrated joke telling self and comes off as more of a caricature than actual flesh/bone. |
| 168881 | Victoria Alexander | Film Festival Today | Fresh | — | 2021-05-19T23:30:17Z | 2021-05-19 23:30:17 | Chris Rock has his franchise but it's all about him, not the victim's circumstances. The tortures are mechanical marvels without a chance of escape. What is the fun in that? |
| 168882 | Jake Wilson | The Age (Australia) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-05-19T21:20:16Z | 2021-05-19 21:20:16 | The film conveys no coherent message, except as a warning to makers of mash-ups: throwing an unusual set of ingredients into the blender may be a way of creating something fresh, or it may simply result in an indigestible stew. |
| 168883 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-05-18T17:20:33Z | 2021-05-18 17:20:33 | Spiral is a good faith effort at expanding the Saw cinematic universe...Unfortunately, the realization of that expansion isn't quite up to snuff. |
| 168884 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-18T08:50:08Z | 2021-05-18 08:50:08 | ...if you skip the gore, the police procedural elements actually work well, with Rock an unfamiliar presence and several effective plot twists that I certainly didn't see coming.... |
| 168885 | Deirdre Crimmins | Polygon | Rotten | — | 2021-05-17T23:10:43Z | 2021-05-17 23:10:43 | Spiral presents itself as a police procedural without procedure, as a Saw movie without Jigsaw, and as a revenge film without emotions. |
| 168886 | Sergio López Aguirre | Cine Premiere | Rotten | 3/5 | 2021-05-17T22:10:34Z | 2021-05-17 22:10:34 | Torture returns to the screen and we are witnesses and victims at the same time. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 168887 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Rotten | — | 2021-05-17T20:20:36Z | 2021-05-17 20:20:36 | Whether it's digging into Zeke's personal life, or forming a remotely cohesive, if not thought-provoking, statement about police violence in America, [Spiral] just wastes our time. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 168888 | Nicholas Bell | IONCINEMA.com | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-05-17T18:20:24Z | 2021-05-17 18:20:24 | As an exercise about punishing corrupt members of law enforcement, Spiral certainly primes audiences for timely catharsis, but the dwindling and eventually insipid third act detracts from these subversive themes. |
| 168889 | Hannah Strong | Little White Lies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-05-17T18:10:21Z | 2021-05-17 18:10:21 | An earnest, overproduced piece of Saw fanfiction without the cheap thrills. |
| 168890 | Sean Burns | North Shore Movies | Rotten | — | 2021-05-17T17:00:21Z | 2021-05-17 17:00:21 | Politically it feels sheepish and timid, gory in a way that's afraid to draw any real blood. |
| 168891 | Luke Parker | VoiceBoxOffice | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2021-05-17T16:10:18Z | 2021-05-17 16:10:18 | There's too much "could have been" and "should have been" surrounding Spiral to dismiss it as just franchise fodder. |
| 168892 | Adam Patterson | Film Pulse | Rotten | 4.5/10 | 2021-05-17T13:00:15Z | 2021-05-17 13:00:15 | It seemed like Rock's vision was going to elevate the stagnant franchise to a new, exciting level, the end result is just too similar to what we've seen eight times before. |
| 168895 | James Berardinelli | ReelViews | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2021-05-17T12:00:13Z | 2021-05-17 12:00:13 | If Saw ever had its day, the sun has long since set on it. There seems to be little point in exhuming it for a new generation. |
| 168894 | Emma Simmonds | The List | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-17T12:00:13Z | 2021-05-17 12:00:13 | Spiral is not quite up there with the 2004 original and, of course, it ain't pretty, but if you've got the stomach for it, then please, go right ahead. |
| 168893 | Rob Rector | Film Threat | Fresh | 6/10 | 2021-05-17T12:00:13Z | 2021-05-17 12:00:13 | Serves up just the right amount of cinematic comfort food to keep us coming back for another serving. |
| 168896 | Ciara Wardlow | Pajiba | Rotten | — | 2021-05-17T05:10:25Z | 2021-05-17 05:10:25 | The only thing there is to root for is the end credits, and that they appear sooner rather than later. |
| 168897 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-05-17T04:10:20Z | 2021-05-17 04:10:20 | Starts with a fine first hour, then dissolves with a twist ending that comes much too fast |
| 168898 | Kevin Maher | The Times (UK) | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-17T03:00:14Z | 2021-05-17 03:00:14 | Even the "torture porn" murders have lost their gross-out value, and are now just brutal and kitsch. |
| 168899 | Sarah-Tai Black | Globe and Mail | Rotten | — | 2021-05-17T02:40:11Z | 2021-05-17 02:40:11 | Spiral's too-restrained storylines here are clearly an unfortunate side effect of its ambitions toward a more venerated generic bent... |
| 168900 | Kevin A. Ranson | MovieCrypt.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-05-16T19:40:15Z | 2021-05-16 19:40:15 | ... the ninety-minute runtime keeps tension ramped up between clue reveals and trap sequences... leaves little time to care about plot-related father-son relationships or offer up would-be victims as anything more than meat to be wasted. |
| 168901 | Nicola Austin | We Have a Hulk | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-05-16T18:10:15Z | 2021-05-16 18:10:15 | A gripping & often compelling entry in the Saw franchise, rooted much more in a police procedural than the twisted horror of previous instalments. |
| 168902 | Avi Offer | NYC Movie Guru | Rotten | 5.2666/10 | 2021-05-16T17:00:13Z | 2021-05-16 17:00:13 | A dumb reboot that's just as gory as expected, but sorely lacking in suspense. Chris Rock, playing against type, is miscast. |
| 168903 | Erik Childress | eFilmCritic.com | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2021-05-16T16:40:12Z | 2021-05-16 16:40:12 | Another lame Saw entry from director Darren Lynn Bousman is not surprising, but its cowardly approach to a real world issue makes it the Disclosure of the franchise. |
| 168904 | Kate Sánchez | But Why Tho? | Fresh | 7.5/10 | 2021-05-16T15:10:10Z | 2021-05-16 15:10:10 | Spiral: From the Book of Saw is a return to form for the series. |
| 168905 | Bill Arceneaux | Moviegoing with Bill | Rotten | 1.5/5 | 2021-05-16T14:30:06Z | 2021-05-16 14:30:06 | It's borderline offensive to senses and sensibilities, it's a poor passing of problematic progression, and yet it makes for a decent watch. One decent watch, but still. |
| 168906 | Jordy Sirkin | Jordy Reviews It | Fresh | — | 2021-05-16T02:00:11Z | 2021-05-16 02:00:11 | It exudes a very neo-noir detective thriller feel, but with just enough gruesome and inventive traps we've come to expect. |
| 168907 | Dan Murrell | Dan Murrell Reviews | Rotten | 5.2/10 | 2021-05-16T01:30:10Z | 2021-05-16 01:30:10 | Spiral is not a new chapter or a reimagining of the franchise - it's yet another rehash. |
| 168908 | Andrea Chase | Killer Movie Reviews | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-16T01:10:08Z | 2021-05-16 01:10:08 | This is a reboot of sorts with dreams of being just as franchise worth [as the original]. Some dreams needs to be quashed. |
| 168909 | Carla Hay | Culture Mix | Rotten | — | 2021-05-15T22:20:08Z | 2021-05-15 22:20:08 | Spiral has a misguided mashup of Chris Rock doing stale stand-up comedy lines in a 'torture porn' story that rips off elements of Training Day and Shaft. The results are messier than the movie's bloody corpses. |
| 168910 | Nathaniel Muir | AIPT | Fresh | — | 2021-05-15T22:00:11Z | 2021-05-15 22:00:11 | The newest entry to the long running franchise does not bring anything new to the table regarding story. Chris Rock does great with what he is given. |
| 168911 | Ian Simmons | Kicking the Seat | Rotten | 1/5 | 2021-05-15T20:10:11Z | 2021-05-15 20:10:11 | Rock is, as I understand it, a huge fan of the Saw movies. That's great. Tom Green might be the world's biggest Godfather geek; I still wouldn't let him near a fourth installment. |
| 168912 | Matt Donato | The Gist | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2021-05-15T19:00:14Z | 2021-05-15 19:00:14 | Gore is eternal, although the overall elusiveness of previous Saw installments is missing from this relatively cut-and-dry case of Jigsaw's lament retrofitted onto CSI: Saw Edition designs. |
| 168913 | Adam Graham | Detroit News | Rotten | D | 2021-05-15T15:30:07Z | 2021-05-15 15:30:07 | No matter who the killer is targeting with his latest schemes, it's Rock who's the victim here, and he does not escape unharmed. |
| 168914 | Matt Conway | Battle Royale With Cheese | Rotten | — | 2021-05-15T11:20:05Z | 2021-05-15 11:20:05 | Spiral's detective veneer lands like a tired CSI re-run. |
| 168915 | Luke Y. Thompson | FreakSugar | Fresh | — | 2021-05-15T05:30:10Z | 2021-05-15 05:30:10 | At times Rock feels like he's trying too hard to be tough, but he relishes playing with the dialogue, and his interplay with Minghella gives the story more character than usual. |
| 168916 | Todd Jorgenson | Cinemalogue | Rotten | — | 2021-05-15T04:30:16Z | 2021-05-15 04:30:16 | Amid the usual sadistic collection of gadgets and game play that prey upon the squeamish, Chris Rock brings depth and complexity to a conflicted character who deserves better than this procedural thriller. |
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