I wanna play a game.....

Rating: 9/10 (25 February 2012)

Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes.
Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket.
They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die.
They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer.
Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims.
Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly....
This is one of those movies that is never the same when you watch it for the second time, but it's still a great viewing pleasure, as it answers so many questions you may have asked first time around.
The plot is simple, but what makes the film work so well is the fluid narrative, and intricate storytelling using flashbacks between the two men, Jigsaw, and Danny Glover.
Each of these four people have a different story throughout the movie, but it all leads back to that one room.
It's obviously not for weak stomachs, and the film has spawned several sequels, some good, some not.
But the best thing about this film is Jigsaw, a 'villain' you actually have empathy for in some strange way, as for once, he is a human being, dying,and want to make people appreciate life.
It's well worth seeing, and you really don't need to see the other six with this, but seeing them in one full swoop, t's quite a good story.
But Elwes' face does get way too pale at the end, he looks like a Cullen.