No redeeming quality about this movie.

Rating: 2/10 (9 February 2005)

I'm sorry, but this movie was a mix of Seven and Phone Booth. The man who is about to die hates that people go through life and don't appreciate every day. That was the concept, somewhat, of Phone Booth where the killer tried to make people repent their ways and love everyday after, or they die. In order to do this in Saw, the killer takes a page from John Doe's marble notebook in Seven and tortures them into realizing this, or they die. It was just a rip-off of so many movies, as is the case most of the time in Hollywood nowadays.
The orderly as the killer was too neat to be true, so there has to be some twist at the end, which is another trend going around Hollywood. Everyone knows now that the end of a thriller today is not really the end, there is still another five minutes that will show the real ending, and this one wasn't a good one. This movie was built up as the most horrifying and disturbing picture since 8mm, and it did NOT live up to the hype. It was not disturbing in any way and I don't think I jumped once watching it. Seeing what the killer did to his victims was not scary or horrifying in any way, and just about any rated R movie that comes out now is as, if not more, bloody and gruesome than Saw is.
The plot is old, the concept is old, and Hollywood needs to find some new material. 8mm was much more disturbing and horrifying than this movie, as was Seven, and Seven was a hundred times better in every single way.
A dying man's wish to make everyone see life the way he is seeing it: can't the killer just be a psycho who was loved as a child by his parents and just turned out wrong instead of there always having to be some reason why he or she is torturing and killing random people?