![]() And it’s a cliché-riddled cop movie, as evidenced by the very next scene, in which undercover cop Zeke is read the riot act by his boss, Capt.The first time Rock’s Detective Zeke Banks appears on screen, he’s delivering an hilarious, edgy riff on “Forrest Gump” that sounds like something straight out of a stand-up special. It’s also a Chris Rock comedy vehicle. ![]() It’s a definitely a “Saw” movie, with an opening scene that dares us to keep our eyes on the screen as we see a guy ensnared in a device on a subway track that gives him the choice between severing his own tongue or allowing a train to turn him into human lasagna.Within the first 10 minutes or so, “Spiral” actually identifies itself as a combo platter of three genres: This is the fourth “Saw” movie for Darren Lynn Bousman, and he clearly knows how to stage those infamous scenes where some unseen, creepy-sounding monster has kidnapped a targeted individual and strapped them inside some insanely complicated device and wants to play a “game” in which the victim must choose between such fun consequences as suffering severe injuries, killing someone else or just saying the hell with it and dying a gruesome death. It spirals downward into a ludicrous, dumbed-down horror story more concerned with grossing out the audience than in providing any compelling reason for this long-running franchise to keep chugging along, leaving a trail of blood in its wake. Despite the usual depraved creativity from the psychotic mastermind pulling off a string of killings, a few darkly funny moments and a first-rate cast led by Chris Rock, “Spiral” lives down to its name. Alas, the ninth installment in the “Saw” franchise doesn’t meet those standards. ![]() ![]() After all, there’s only a small handful of suspects in most murder mysteries, and even if we’ve narrowed it down to one or two candidates early on, we can enjoy the journey if we’re watching a well-crafted story. Not that figuring out whodunnit always spoils a movie. Rated R (for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, pervasive language, some sexual references and brief drug use). Lionsgate presents a film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg and Pete Goldfinger. ![]()
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