Sadistic, very unpleasant horror flick

Rating: 8/10 (27 July 2005)

Two men, Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), wake up, chained on the wall, in a small room. In the middle of the room there is a dead body, holding a tape player. Men find tapes from their pockets and they soon find out, that they are in the middle of a sick game, organized by a sick serial killer. The name of the game is: Kill the other man and be free. They are also provided with two saws. You do the math. Detective Tapp (Danny Glover) tries to run against time to catch that sadistic SOB, called the Jigsaw, because of twisted games he plays with his victims.
I really can't say Saw is for the most faint hearted people in the world: It's gruel, sadistic and bloody. It rolls along its sadistic rails, steadily to the end, even though the plot has some small details, which were left unpolished or unthought. Some aspects of the story are rather silly, if you start to think about them, but those things won't get in the way of the horror, no matter how illogical they seem afterward.
I'd recommend this one for the horror genre fans, but I would think it twice if you are just a regular "Scream" or "I know What you Did last summer" type of horror watcher