Did Danny Glover need work this bad?

Rating: 4/10 (17 February 2005)

"Saw" is the story of two guys who are locked in a room chained to a pipe. One of them is told he must kill the other and if he does his wife and child will not be killed. The only way they can get free is to cut through their foot. This film at no time thrilled or scared me like a thriller is supposed to do. I think the reason for this were the huge holes in the story and abysmal acting, if you call them actors. This film took 18 days to film and it shows.
Now for some of these holes. First the cell phone worked in that environment. Mine never would have worked. It would not have gotten reception. Here comes the spoiler so if you have not seen the film do not read the rest of this. The killer was playing dead in the same room with these two guys and during the entire film he did not breathe or twitch a muscle. Then before he got up he let the doctor leave the room, not that he could get too far in this condition. Can we say witness. And lastly and more importantly even though the saws could not cut through the solid metal of the chain why didn't they cut through the pipes. Pipes are very thin and hollow.
Now god forbid let us wait for Saw 2.