Great thinking mans horror film

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2008)

I have just finished watching this for what must be the tenth time on DVD within the four years that it has come out, and i have to say this is a great film
The premise of it is this, a serial killer alias 'jigsaw' is creating 'games' for men and women whom he has decided are wasting their lives, they have two options, play the game and try to live, or don't and die its that simple
The film starts out with the character of Adam(Leigh Whamnell) waking up in a bathtub in the middle of disgusting bathroom, he soon climbs out to realize that he is chained to a pipe within this room and he has company one dead man who shot himself, we don't know how long ago, and Dr. Lawrence Gordon(Cary Elwes), as the both come to the realization that they are trapped within one of the infamous Jigsaw killer's games, in which Dr Gordon is told to kill Adam by Six PM or his Daughter(Makenze Vega) and Wife(Morgan Potter) would be killed.
This movie when I first saw it, I was impressed, first off the movie has a moral lesson behind it. Live your life, don't take it for granted because if you do you could end up regretting it in the end. It is mostly meant to say, don't think that your life is meaningless just because you deem it so, and it did so without a lot of gore, or sex it was a simple low budget horror flick with a twisted way of showing a moral, and I loved it.
But not just because of the simple fact that it had a moral, because it was more mental than it was slasher, it actually makes you think this could be going on now, and sadly it probably is somewhere someone is either copycatting, or was the inspiration for this film. But thats a social commentary...
All and all, I think that Saw is one of the BEST horror movies out there and if you have a mind to think, I suggest you pick it up and watch for yourself
and hope, and pray one day you don't wake up in a small dark room with an electronic voice saying "want to play a game?"