Detectives investigate the death of their own and find it be similar to the now-deceased Jigsaw Killer.
With a head-bobbing soundtrack, Darren Lynn Bousman's offering plays on the franchise formula and as a result, has a few unexpected twists. However, the thriller social theme of police immorality that film explores while topical makes it feel it's stuck in the decades gone by. In addition, the saturated lighting/colourised atheistic like something from Seven, rob it of the hot sweaty location feel it's trying to convey.
Writers Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinge deliver the mysterious killer, riddles, traps, visuals and the gore keep it connected to the Saw franchise and Bousman takes Spiral: From the Book of Saw into a new direction; but it is arguably not the bold reinvention needed.
Thanks to the presence of both Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson it stops Spiral falling into forgettable territory, the father-and-son relationship tension works well. It could be pacer, smarter, but ultimately it's a film about cops, that only seems to hold up due to the Saw connections and the screen presence of the leads. Watch with caution.
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