SummaryObsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrific games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his/her life, or else die trying. (Lions Gate Films)
SummaryObsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer is abducting morally wayward people and forcing them to play horrific games for their own survival. Faced with impossible choices, each victim must struggle to win back his/her life, or else die trying. (Lions Gate Films)
May be the best independent horror film to have come out since "The Blair Witch Project." It's certainly better than "Blair Witch", and more fun, more gruesome, and more macabre. In a very delightful way.
Saw is so full of twists it ends up getting snarled. For all of his flashy engineering and inventive torture scenarios, the Jigsaw Killer comes across as an amateur. Hannibal Lecter would have him for lunch.
Хороший детективчик на один вечер. Сюжет и его сьёмка заслуживает 7 и выше, но из-за абсурдных моментов, связанных с боёвкой и реализмом фильмец на твердую 6-ку.
Plot twist end of the movie and Story is pretty cool but out of these things I can not find any cinematic feature.
As for me , confrantation part of the movie is not clear and progressive.
Sound effects and visual effects are both not sufficient. Makeup and blood effects are neither realistic nor satisfactory . The saw was not cutting the skin you evidently see this. Even when the man was shot, we could not see any entrance injury . Generally I sense a lack of quality. Also there are serious editing problems.
When examined the actings I do not like the acting of the doctor, maybe photographer is slightly more good.
Eventually that is not a horror movie, I think it is adventure and mystery movie
But As I said the story and plot twist can rescue this movie. If only other factors were good.
A crude concoction sewn together from the severed parts of prior horror/serial killer pics, “SAW” marks a noisy, nasty feature debut for Aussie helmer James Wan and scenarist-thesp Leigh Whannell.
Middle-aged Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes) and young malcontent Adam (Whannell) wake up at opposite ends of a decrepit basement bathroom, ankle-chained to girders, with no idea how they got there — and a corpse on the floor between them. Discovery of an audio cassette explains the doc must snuff Adam within the next few hours, or their unseen captor will murder Gordon’s wife (Monica Potter) and child.
Meanwhile, two police **** (Danny Glover, Ken Leung) are on the trail of the mysterious “Jigsaw Killer,” whose prior victims were similarly abducted, then left alone to complete gruesome tasks by deadline. A single, traumatized exception aside, they all failed — and met with grotesquely customized “Seven”-style deaths. Ill-matched two current prisoners wrack their brains and bruise their bodies trying to avoid the same fate.
Convoluted screenplay deploys flashbacks within flashbacks, myriad red herrings, false scares and gross-out real ones. But sum effect is less ingenious than desperate, and wholly derivative. Too hyperbolic to be genuinely disturbing, pic nonetheless crosses a line of anything-goes shamelessness by dwelling on the screaming terror of Gordon’s preschool daughter (Makenzie Vega) as she and mom are bound, gagged and handgun-caressed by a masked villain.
Elsewhere, there are cheaply effective if unoriginal scares. Filmmakers bring a certain verve to such moments; but building atmosphere and suspense is well beyond them. Ditto handling actors: Left to their own devices amid escalating levels of narrative hysteria, Elwes, Whannell and Potter eventually grow ridiculous. It’s depressing to ponder just what Glover — one of our finest actors — is doing with a routine support part in this slick schlock. One can only hope he was very well paid for the indignity.
Tech aspects are pro; loud soundtrack is equivalent of an incessant “Boo!” goosing.
So if I'd love to see body parts getting severed on these posters and then they try to scare us by using already-used scary clichés, then Saw failed big time. Wow, that was so scary.