Be Very Careful

Rating: 1/10 (29 October 2004)

You have to be careful. Among those who are likely posting here are staff from Evolution Entertainment and Saw Productions, Inc. They are pretty easy to spot (e.g. one obvious giveaway is that Danny Glover's acting is called "amazing", "really good" or any of a number of superlatives usually reserved for real actors, not cardboard cutout types). This has become a common practice among film companies -- corporate fraud comes in many disguises, you know, not just like Enron -- since box office on a film's first weekend is so financially important and the deception needn't be carried on longer than that first week and before.
"Saw" is a made-only-for-the-quick-buck, terrible B-movie. The acting is wooden, the script is not clever, the music is blaring and uninventive, the sound is so uneven that you feel you're missing significant pieces of dialogue (you aren't). Looking around the theatre I noticed a couple of patrons having fallen asleep near the end. There is one positive: the opening credits are spiffy.
Overall, the feeling you'll leave the theatre with can probably be compared with the feeling after you vote[d] in this election. You went into the booth with high expectations and then got something completely different when it was over.
Rating: a generous 1 out of 10.