Fantastic, refreshing change of pace from unoriginal horror films.

Rating: 10/10 (12 April 2013)

I'd like to start by stating one of the very few things that bothers me about this movie. When I look at it, and see the word 'genre', and look to the right of it and see the word, 'horror'.
Let's face it, this movie's main goal was not to scare. It was to leave viewers of the movie guessing.
This movie is far, very, very far from typical. Two men wake up in a disgusting bathroom, each chained to a rusty pipe by their ankles. Oh yeah, and there's a dead body between them. From that very situation in the beginning, I was interested in the plot.
We find more details about the movie throughout. We learn about the 'Jigsaw' killer. Although he isn't a killer at all. Is he?
No...he isn't.
He finds ungrateful people, and puts them in a situation for them to earn their lives. Which they are all very capable of doing. But not everyone succeeds.
We get an in-depth look at Detective Tapp (played very well by Danny Glover) and his obsession with finding the man known as Jigsaw.
To say the very least this movie was suspenseful and thrilling. Not scary, nor was it supposed to be.
The acting was good, not fantastic or anything, but quite good. I believed all the characters. The camera-work, screenplay, script, and directing were all very good as well. Don't even get me started on the music. That was great.
The ending may or may not blow you away. I was shocked to say the least, and as I've said, this is a great change of pace from typical movies.
10/10. Great plot, great suspense, great mystery, great music, great ending.