See Saw? DON'T!

Rating: 1/10 (30 October 2004)

I am quite impressed with the amount of good reviews on this website in regards to SAW. Usually people are much more cynical with their opinions on a horror movie.... Those reviewers who say SAW is a psychological movie are half right. Psychologically there's a lot to discuss, like how stupid would someone have to be to look over the obvious plot holes to say this movie is "good" entertainment. How A.D.D. are we as an audience that instead of a movie moment with true suspense we instead get a Nine Inch Nails music video interlude inappropriately thrown in. First things first: the acting is beyond terrible. Even for Danny Glover, but to his credit is working with a cheesy and laughable dialogue. Cary Elwes is downright terrible, the worst acting I have seen this year. An evil bad guy who broods about saying in dark cartoon voices "I AM SICK OF THE DISEASE OF THE WORLD" is scary? The actions of nearly all the characters are flat out illogical, even with a hearty amount of suspension of disbelief. I find it amusing that people justify this flick by accusing bad reviewers of being brainwashed by constant eye candy from high budget studio pictures, when clearly "SAW" tries to disguise a bad movie with exactly that, loads of technical eye candy. This movie would have been much better had it just stuck to a simple story. It was an original idea that went to waste with complicated & unnecessary "plot twists" and poor execution from a freshman writer and director. Its a shame that such a promising movie became such a complete waste of time & money.