It may be my favorite movie, but it still isn't perfect.

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2010)

SAW is an example of how most psychological thrillers should be. It plays with you, makes you think you understand the movie, and shocks you at the end. I'm not going to whine about the acting, since it was a low-budget movie. In fact, I never care about the acting: I go for the story itself. This is why I think books are better than movies. Anyways, in SAW, the best character isn't jigsaw himself, but Billy, the puppet. Billy gives the killer an abstract way of being, so you don't know what you're up against. The plot twist at the end was marvellous, but could have been done better. Something like... we didn't see his face. It would have been better if, at the end of the movie, all we thought about Jigsaw was Billy. Also, there were some unnecessary flashbacks that made part of the movie boring: You could either make the movie shorter or add something else, but, by taking off those scenes the movie would certainly be something else.
Summarizing, the movie would have been perfect if Jigsaw's image was abstract by the end of the movie, portrayed by Billy, and the directors wouldn't have put some unnecessary flashbacks. I think the movie could have gone good in any way if you changed the plot completely but kept Jigsaw/Billy, for example, take a group of friends, put them in a house, and make them pass a couple of tests throughout some days (make them even sleep in that house). So the movie's main strength is, obviously, our psychotic killer Jigsaw and his amazing puppet Billy.