Game over...

Rating: 8/10 (2 November 2006)

Directed by first timer James Wan and assisted by Leigh Whannell, this film is about two men who lies chained into the ankles in a filthy bathroom and a dead man between them. Adam (Leigh Whannell) receives a message from a tape recorder he found in his pocket. It says that he may die in the room he is in unless he does something about it. Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) also receives a message from a videotape and tells him that he must kill Adam within six hours or his family will die. He then receives a bullet and an unknown key. We are then indulged into numerous flashbacks that reveals why they got there and who is their captor. Their captor, is then revealed to be a serial killer named 'Jigsaw' portrayed by Tobin Bell who uses sick games to murder his victims yet he claims that he hasn't killed anyone. Its up to his victims whether they die or not.
The movie is outstanding in many ways. The concept was just darn good. Its not your average slasher, run-here-scream-there film, it has more sense and they put more meaning to it. The cast, though its the first time that I've seen them, were great too. Adam's agonizing scream at the end has had me sleepless nights and bad dreams. And its also the first time that I felt sympathy to the villain. He don't kill people for nothing. He has a reason. Its not just some big guy who slashes people just because they trespassed his territory or something. Jigsaw kills people who don't appreciate life, the ones who don't deserve it. A 9/10 for a smart horror flick.