The film opened in third place in Russia with $1.1 million on 273 screens while it fell to fourth place in the United Kingdom with $1.5 million on 381 screens over the weekend for a total of $6.1 million. "Saw VI" was released in Spain on and grossed $1.2 million on its opening weekend in 211 theaters. The film has come to gross $27.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $40.5 million in other markets, for a worldwide total of $68.2 million; making it the lowest-grossing film of the series. "Saw VI" was not screened in advance for critics. The film received mixed reviews from film critics, and garnered the  second best critical reception out of the series, after "Saw" (2004). Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 39% of 72 critics have given the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.3 out of 10. The website's critical consensus reads, "It won't earn the franchise many new fans, but "Saw VI" is a surprising step up for what has become an intricately grisly annual tradition." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average rating of 30 out of 100, based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "C" on an A+ to F scale. Owen Gleiberman of "Entertainment Weekly" said that ""Saw VI" is the thinnest, draggiest, and most tediously preachy of the "Saw" films. It's the first one that's more or less consumed by backstory—which is to say, it's one of those hollow franchise placeholders in which far too many fragments from the previous sequels keep popping up in flashbacks." He said, "If your goal is to do a quick study for a round of "Saw" Trivial Pursuit, then this may be the movie for you. If you're looking to be jolted into fear or queasy laughter, skip this sequel and hope that the producers get their sick act together next time." Rob Nelson of "Variety" wrote, "Squeezing another pint of blood from its torture-porn corpus, Lionsgate slays again with "Saw VI", a film so frighteningly familiar it could well be called 'Saw It Already'. At least the requisite moralism is more playful than pious in this edition", but added, "Presumably owing to director Kevin Greutert's work as editor of all five previous "Saw" pics, the film's juggling of chronology is the franchise's best..."