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- Ass Pull: Hoffman being an apprentice of Jigsaw, as well as the Sequencing Deception with the previous movie. 1000 Misspent Hours sums it up pretty well in this review (starting from the 7th paragraph)
. - Awesome Music/Breakaway Pop Hit: The end credits feature the song "I.V." which was the first X Japan song to receive a proper western release.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Cecil was responsible for Jill's miscarriage. In VI, it was revealed that he didn't want to rob Jill because she had always been good to him, but Amanda kept goading him to.
- It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: One of the biggest complaints about the movie is that it's basically a worse version of Saw III, with its protagonist being a supporting character from the previous movies being forced to go through the same challenges as Jeff, only whereas Saw III took the time to develop Jeff's character and make sure the audience understood his plight, all the audience knows about Rigg here is that he just wants to save everyone.
- Moral Event Horizon: Ivan crossed this by raping at least three girls and keeping photos/videos of said women during and after the act to get himself off to. It says a lot that the protagonist (who has an absolutely massive case of Chronic Hero Syndrome) forces him into the trap at gunpoint, and shows little to no sympathy when he gets his body ripped apart.
- Nausea Fuel: The opening scene involving John's autopsy. More than any trap, this is probably the most gratuitous Body Horror in the entire series.
- Padding: When the police and the FBI show up to the classroom with Morgan and Rex's corpse, Strahm saves Perez from getting hit by a spike which accidentally shot out from a crossbow that a forensic officer was dusting, only for an unnamed photographer to get impaled by it instead. This moment was criticized by many viewers as a gratuitous kill that adds nothing to the movie, for reasons including that the photographer was too much of a minor character to even have a death, her being placed there simply to have someone else get killed in place of Perez, and the fact that the rest of the police react with a minor Oh, Crap! before simply moving on with the investigation as if nothing happened. It seems to only have the double function of adding another death after the last one happened a while ago, and making the scene a bit longer.
- Retroactive Recognition: An interesting case between movies within the same franchise. While Devon Bostick's involvement in the franchise is mostly known for him playing Brent Abbott in Saw VI, he's the only actor in the franchise to have played more than one character. In this movie, he played a background character named Derek. In an interview, he said that Derek was originally going to play a larger role in the movie, but was glad that it was cut so that he could play Brent later.
