Above average

Rating: 7/10 (15 April 2005)

I had a few preconceptions about this film, going into it I thought it would be a 100 minute character study of two people put in a pretty bleak situation.
WHen the first flashback happened I thought it was alright as i guess it showed how brutal jigsaw can be.
Then the film became pretty much fully flash backed or scenes from somewhere else and very very small amounts of the film were done in the actual basement room with the two lead roles.
COmbine this with some very mismatched acting from Dr. Lawrence, who was good in some scenes but just awful in other (it's almost like sometimes he just had bad days and they went with it).
The action not completely in the basement and the bad acting from the lead role have stopped me giving this film a higher rating, but it is definitely worth seeing, especially if you liked Se7en.