SAW MOVIE 2021 SERIES
The reasons become clear through a series of flashbacks. Yes, 'Spiral' has the convoluted, explicit gore you expect in a 'Saw' movieĪs victims begin to pile up it’s clear the killer is targeting cops. It’s been years - you’d think this would have played out one way or the other by now but who knows? Maybe they’ve been busy. And if you didn’t get the point, he finds a rat in a trap on his desk. Why waste a tired trope? The rest of the force is reluctant to work with Zeke. She also has paired him with William Schenk (Max Minghella), who is, yes, a top-of-his-class rookie. Angie Garza (Marisol Nichols), a perpetually angry, yelling police captain of the bad-cop-movie sort, reluctantly assigns Zeke the case. (In one amusing meta moment, Zeke references “New Jack City” - a movie Rock is in.) They assume this is a copycat killer tapping into the Jigsaw mythos. The people in this movie haven’t, of course, but they’re familiar with this kind of thing because they are part of its universe. Unique if you’d never seen a “Saw” movie, that is. Zeke is reviled by seemingly everyone, except the officer who winds up dead in a uniquely disturbing way. Jackson, no less - and considered a rat by the rest of the force because he turned in a dirty cop years before. Rock plays Zeke, a detective who is both the son of a now-retired iconic police chief - Samuel L. Maybe watching someone get their tongue ripped out of their mouth keeps your interest, too, but in a far less agreeable way. But as long as Rock is on the screen, which is almost constantly, it at least keeps your interest.
Chris Rock can hold your interest in 'Spiral.' Little else doesĪlong the way there is some really gory violence and some really cliched cop-drama dialogue, with acting to match.
It’s just a dumb horror movie with a smart lead actor who gets off to a funny start riffing on why “Forrest Gump” couldn’t be made today while on an undercover assignment and works inexorably toward him screaming and facing the Impossible Choices that define the “Saw” films. It was reportedly Rock’s idea to reboot the franchise with him in it, which explains why he is also an executive producer of the film, subtitled “from the Book of Saw” like it was some lost artifact of torture-porn legend or something. Having seen “Spiral” he’s still an odd choice, but by far the best one in a lazy movie of misfires. When word came out that Chris Rock was starring in “Spiral,” a spinoff of the “Saw” movies, he seemed like an odd choice.
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