Spiral has a very big problem. It can't decide what kind of movie it wants to be. A drama/thriller about an outsider cop being against corruption in the department or a part of the big Saw universe. In the end it none of the two options. Too less for a story about corruption and too less for being a Saw movie. Chris Rock is playing the outsider in his department because he was against corruption in it. In a flashback scene we even can see him being shot down and no one came to help. Does anyone else feel reminded of Serpico? 😉 When you watch a movie dealing with Saw, you want to see creative torture machines and not a uncreative built background story of a cop. That's not what Saw is about. After all Spiral is a movie you can easily skip.
Review of Spiral
