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Rating: 8/10 (18 December 2012)

The first and the best, Saw is bloody great fun. Two guys (Whannel) and the ever great character actor (Elwes) wake up in a decrepit washroom, chained up. Their reasons for being there become evident later as they try to figure an escape. On a mini tape recorder, is a dark, simulated voice we'll come to know as Jigsaw, much like Seven's John Doe, who makes his victims realizes of their actions, where a minute number of survivors appreciate life much more and the rightings of their wrongs. The story goes and forth to how to how they ended up in this mess, where we see some more examples of Jigsaw's work, the different ways their victims die, where they do have choices. Very violent this film is, that really questions censorship in this country, Saw has some uncomfortable moments of violence, but the movie has a lot of suspense and intrigue, plotted brilliantly as a first class horror thriller that rivals the superlative Seven. Elwes, such a great unappreciated character actor here, again doesn't disappoint, as an unfaithful doctor who's wife and daughter, neglected, become hostages in this game of Jigsaw's. We too have that creepy little guy from Person Of Interest as one of Jigsaw's accomplices, bringing a real creepy piece of work here, minding Elwes's family who will die if Elwes doesn't deliver. The most insane of choices has Elwes either shooting Whannel, to get the key to unlock the chain around his ankle or cut his own leg off, and you can pretty much guess from the title, Elwes preferance. Saw too has a great shock ending, and like all the Saw films, not a nice one. Whannel the writer of this, another good performer here, and James Wan have created a horror masterpiece, that will live on in cinema history for at least the next hundred years. One of Jigsaw's surviving victims in this, becomes another of his assistants too. Danny Glover is solid here too as the obsessed detective,while Monica Potter, no not Julia Roberts, is solid as Elwes's wife. For horror ala Seven fans.