When Darby's remains are found, evidence ties his death to Clyde. He straps Darby to a table and videorecords dismembering him. Clyde, disguised as a police officer, reveals himself as the caller and paralyzes Darby with poison. An anonymous caller alerts Darby as the police draw near and directs him to a remote location. Unknown to the prosecutors and witnesses, the drug usually used has been replaced with an anticonvulsant, causing Ames to die painfully. Clyde feels betrayed by Rice's actions and the justice system. Ames is convicted and sentenced to death.
Unwilling to take a chance on lowering his high conviction rate, he makes a deal with Darby, who pleads guilty to a lesser charge and receives a reduced sentence for testifying against his accomplice, Rupert Ames. Prosecutor Nick Rice is unable to securely convict Darby. Saw with a conscience is not what the world needs.In a home invasion, Clarence Darby kills the wife and daughter of Clyde Shelton. If the filmmakers meant a word of it, they’d quit making films and do something more useful. Clyde won’t stop speechifying about doing bad things in the name of the greater good. Jamie Foxx’s prosecutor (smug, a slow learner) gets a front-row seat to the explosion, as Butler’s Clyde Shelton goes behind bars and into solitary confinement, from where, somehow, he is capable of inflicting enough damage and carnage to terrorize the whole of Philadelphia.
Gary Gray and writer Kurt Wimmer peddle cheap, graphic Z-grade revenge thrills dressed up as Knowing Sociopolitical Commentary-as in, the justice system’s rotten, so let’s blow up, then gut, then roast again the whole sumbitch and start from scratch. So much for our sympathy for the leading man, who happens to be Gerard Butler in yet another questionable role. Then: Deals are cut, the murderer walks while his less culpable accomplice is sentenced to death, and the dad wonders, “But what about justice?” And then: A decade passes, dad has seen a Saw or two, and it’s retribution time. The movie wastes no time: Before the opening credits, a man watches two home invaders slaughter his wife and daughter-and we don’t even know their names.
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