Pretty much everyone on the force gets captured by a mysterious figure in a mask, and subjected to some kind of horrible physical dilemma usually involving vital organs being removed at speed while alive. Can Zeke identify the killer before the killer’s game is complete?īousman claims to have dialled back the levels of gore and violence here it’s hard to comment given that I had to watch much of this film with my hands over my eyes. That’s easy enough in the opening, tongue-ripping sequence, but gets trickier as the violent endings become more integrated into the main narrative. Rock gives a remarkably undisciplined performance here, drifting into stand-up riffs about Forrest Gump, or admonishing a colleague about phone use ‘Don’t use up the battery watching Twilight!’, a line we hear twice. That jovial tone works against the atmosphere of dread that Spiral is supposedly working towards 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. Spiral feels hastily put together with flashbacks and edits out of place, it might be interesting to see a director’s cut to sort out some of the glitches. But Spiral is a more interesting movie than it has to be, and ingeniously uses elements of Saw while describing a different if similar situation. It’s cruel, mechanical, and grim as a Jacobean tragedy if nothing else, an exciting final shot sets Spiral up for more grisly manifestations in the future. Spiral is out now in cinemas in the US and UK. Thanks to Lionsgate for the advance screener.While we didn’t get a gravel-throated “Game over,” instead enjoying Max Minghella’s smug-ass Nu-Jigsaw face as he hits us with the “Shh,” there’s no understating the visceral impact of Spiral: From the Book of Saw’s final moments. Even in a franchise marked by its gut-punching plot twists occurring mere moments before a film’s end, Spiral plays particularly, thrillingly ruthless with its blunt conclusions and formal knife wounds. Jackson’s bullet-riddled, blood-drained body, what does this final scene mean beyond its very effective shock value? But after the warehouse dust settles on Academy Award nominee Samuel L.
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