Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticAll good things must come to an end, and as the “Saw” series demonstrated a decade ago, that’s true of not-so-good things as well. “Saw: The Final Chapter,” released in 2010, was supposed to be the last installment of the dismemberment-comes-to-the-megaplex franchise — a resolution that the producers stuck to for seven years. (In sequel terms, that’s a lifetime.) Inevitably, they had a relapse, but “Jigsaw” (2017), starring Tobin Bell as the Rube Goldberg torture-device serial killer who was supposedly long dead, was less a reboot than a delayed denouement, one that was greeted with very little fan enthusiasm.
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