Make it all connect......

Rating: 7/10 (20 March 2005)

Alright, so I saw the movie for the first time last night and I'm still tripping off the ending. I consider myself a reasonably smart person and I had suspected that it was a patient but I never took a real second glance at the body on the floor. Very good ending! But here's what I have to say...
So I thought that some parts of the plot were a little thin or under-explained in the film. First thing is... how does he find his victims? You find out that Amanda is a drug addict but how does a man with a tumor in his frontal lobe find her? I thought it would have made a little more sense if she was a nurse, it would have also created a little more twist if she had been an interest of the doctor. The man in the barbed wire... he could have been a patient in the same hospital. I know I'm being picky but it just seems to me that the ties between jigsaw and the other victims should be as strong as the ties to the doctor and Zep.
Now when it comes to Zep heres what puzzles me... how does he know? Since he is not the one that created the situation in the room, how does he know where the room is? Does jigsaw set up the camera system in the doctors house? When? How? Does jigsaw give him directions on how to get there? Why wouldn't Zep just go to the room in the beginning and force the doctor to kill Adam? Was he given a warning by jigsaw first? I guess I'm just curious as to the inner workings of the setup.
So, with the whole detectives find his hideout (ps: how does he know what they will be wearing in that room? he doesn't, so the dolls should not have been wearing the exact same clothes)...... What the hell happened to the man in the restraints.... you know the one who almost got his brains drilled out? Obviously he was saved (Danny Glover lived through a slit throat, this guy had to have been saved) but did he never see jigsaw's face? was he always under that sheet? had he been there long? It looked like he was a janitor possibly....maybe from the hospital? Anyway, I'm just curious as to the role that this man played after he was found. I hate when there are dangling characters in a movie. Hopefully he will be addressed in the sequel.
So in that room, he is lying there on the ground, dead supposedly, yet he still uses enough muscle movement to press a button on a remote to shock the doctor and Adam? which hand is it in? I guess this is a small discrepancy. So when Dr. Gordon gets out of the room, he is dragging his severed leg trough a hallway that had a sign that said "raw sewage"... is it even a possibility that he survives the contamination let alone makes it out of the tunnel? Since he didn't meet the time limit does jigsaw just walk down that hall and kill him? I'm glad they didn't clear that up in this movie though, I think it made the ending more impactive.
In the beginning I had suspected that the key was in the drain but I don't think it would have helped Adam much in the long run if he had gotten the shackle off...... he would've still been stuck in the room. It would have changed the story drastically and probably for the worse.
Here is what I really enjoyed about the ending...... HOW SICK AND TWISTED THIS MAN REALLY IS!!!!!! He's dying, he has a severe type of tumor, and seeing others waste their potentially happy lives just pisses this man off to the fullest. But the most disturbing part is that he wants to be there... he wants to be there when the doctor saws his foot off, or when the man burns to death. But I think that the movie is very impactive because in the end, wouldn't you be grateful to be alive?
Personally, because I'm an optimist, I believe that Adam will live. He was left in the room to rot, just as promised, but I believe that somehow someone will get to him. What the writers do with that will be the interesting part...