Awful, I hated it.

Rating: Null/10 (4 October 2004)

I went to see 'saw' (oh dear!) the day it opened here in the UK, three days ago, last Friday in fact. The film opens with a guy in a bath of water, he wakes up and manages to save himself from drowning. He is chained to a pipe in a room somewhere and its pitch black. As it happens another guy is chained to a pipe on the opposite side of what turns out to be a large bathroom of some sort. He finds a light and turns it on. They have never met each other before, or so they tell each other and there's also a dead body in the middle of the room. They both find audio tapes in their pockets which they play. Turns out some psycho has locked them in there and one has to kill the other or they will both be locked in the room and left to die. The films also jumps to the outside world periodically to focus on the bad guy and the police trying to track him down, hes done this sort of thing before you see. I hated this film, it tries to be clever but ends up being the most stupid piece of rubbish I've seen in a long time. The 'plot' has so many holes in it its unbelievable, you need to throw all logic out of the window if you want to convince yourself this is at all feasible or possible.
*WARNING MAJOR SPOILERS*
How did the guy in the bath not drown? He was totally submerged in water. Yet when he woke the Doctor on the other side of the bathroom was up and walking around. How did the killer put him in the bath and set the scene up within two or three minutes before he would have drowned? And surely the Doctor would have heard what was going on and therefore his plan and that ridiculous twist ending couldn't have possibly worked in reality. Which ever way you look at it it just doesn't make any sense, and to me is totally laughable. Why do they spend so much time talking about whos doing this to them? I'd have thought at that point in time it was totally irrelevant, they were on a tight time limit, I'd have thought trying to escape would be far more important. It would be to me. When Danny Glover finds some hard evidence as to who the killer is why does he just take one cop and not tell anyone else? And why couldn't they just arrest him? Shoot him in the leg anything but to just let him run away when they were both armed? The one cop runs after him and fires his shotgun into his back. The killer falls over but there is no wound or damage to his clothes. What happened to the gunshot that was fired straight at him? Even if the killer was wearing protection surely his outer clothing would have been ripped by the shotgun blast. The killer was supposedly ill yet he managed to overpower a young man with a baseball bat quite easily it seemed. Why was Danny Glover paying the photographer to take pictures of the Doctor? How did the killer know this? When you think about it it simply doesn't make any sense. And other thing about that awful twist ending, what if the third man involved in the game didn't turn up or something happened to him, how would the killer escape? There was no way to open the door from the inside, or so it seemed. Why did the Doctor not see that there was no empty shells in the gun when he picked it up and opened the chamber? The dead man couldn't have committed suicide, he was calm enough to take aim and shoot the photographer in the shoulder only wounding him. So it wasn't like he had gone insane or mad, he was still sane and alert. And the reason they were both chosen was a let down. One because he was having an affair and the other because he took photographs of people, wow very exciting, not. I could write about the stupid plots holes in the film all day if I wanted but I'll stop now.
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The best part of the film is the beginning when everything is a mystery, as the film develops the stupid plot twists take over and pretty much ruin the whole film. Very poor, stupid, tedious and boring. And don't be fooled by the graphic posters, there is no gore whatsoever, a few after the event dead bodies, a hand full of guts that stay on screen for about three seconds and a couple of gunshots, thats it. Very tame. I've heard this film compared to David Finchers Seven, its not even in the same league.