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Spiral streaming service1/15/2024 is specific and frighteningly timely, using Jigsaw-style deathtraps to execute corrupt and murderous members of law enforcement. As Tobin Bell's deceased serial killer John “Jigsaw” Kramer appears only as a photo on a wall, Spiral's debuting maniac is a dude in a pig mask with an electronically enhanced voice, and although he sounds a bit like Kermit the Frog, his M.O. It's a shame that this latest torture-porn spectacle by Darren Lynn Bousman (director of Saws II, III, and IV) doesn't live up to the promise of Rock's involvement, especially considering how genuinely promising the film seemed even without him. I'd all but forgotten that the movie actually began with a guy voluntarily ripping out his own tongue right before getting splattered by a subway car. (“Did you know Pilates doesn't exist?”) By the time Banks was riotously admonishing a fellow officer for not washing his hands after using the restroom, I was smiling and chuckling so consistently at Rock's unbridled improv energy that I was already enjoying Spiral more than any other entry in the Saw series, and it wasn't even a half-hour old. (Banks also has harsh words for Jenny, correctly noting that she doesn't agree to be Forrest's girlfriend until after she's contracted AIDS.) In his first conversation with Schenk, Banks goes on a tirade against his unfaithful ex-wife, and talks about how married women restrict their affairs to daytime. Our introduction to the detective finds him in the middle of a hilarious rant on how Forrest Gump couldn't be made today, given that no studio would green-light a release with a “special needs” character as its hero. But just because Banks isn't touring the comedy circuit doesn't mean Rock can't practice his standup. And not derisively.Ĭhris Rock doesn't play a comedian in the film instead, he's detective Zeke Banks, an embittered warrior for justice with a new partner (Max Minghella's William Schenk), a history of testifying against dirty cops, and, Rock being Rock, a penchant for dropping F-bombs into every other sentence. So I was watching the new horror flick Spiral, a continuation of the lucrative/ludicrous Saw franchise, and after the first 15 minutes had passed, I realized that the strangest thing was happening: I was laughing.
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