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Rating: 10/10 (28 February 2006)

**WARNING!! This comment is fraught with spoilers. You Have Been warned**
Okay...well, first I heard of this film, my brother was recommending it to me after the awful performance of DOOM. Blurgh. I was ready for anything you could chuck at me, DOOM was so terrible.
Fortunately, it was in an unmarked cover (my brother having lost the original)
The starting scenes made me think 'Maybe Rings, or Ring 0...hmm', but as the title popped up I conveniently ducked out for another coffee and missed it.
Well, after that...put it this way, I'm now paranoid of hacksaws. Well, anything ending with -saw. But unfortunately, I fell asleep about 1.4 the way into the movie (not because it was terrible, because it was 4 in the morning and I was tired...I was just resting my eyes!! For about 5 hours XD)
I later recommended the movie to a friend. We later debated over whether hacksaws (my friend said surgical saws, I disagree entirely)would cut through chains, leading to the inevitable debate: normal or Carbon steel?
I later decided to continue watching. I got about as far as the Beartrap mask, then we started another debate as to how it was made. And yes, I did mention that the original prop WAS able to do serious harm, if correctly manipulated.
Finally, after getting sick of my stop-because-there's-another-debate-starting movie-watching method, I watched it in full.
I got very scared.
Very scared.
And minorly grossed out.
Why? Because it could actually happen. It's plausible. In the same way as Silence of the Lambs is plausible.
And the twist? It took me a whole minute to get my brain thinking logically enough to work it out.
Admittedly, the skipping between Lawrence-and-Adam-in-bathroom and other scenes got annoying, but if you give it concentration, you'll work it out eventually.
MY SCORES: Gore: 2/10 Way too much, in my opinion. Not actually gore though, but some of it was suggested. And that was enough to set me off. Plot: 9/10 Couple of minor things that needed following up, but they presumably are sorted out in SAW II. Characters: 10/10 Whoever thought this one up was very, very creative. Overall: 10/10