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Rating: 10/10 (9 October 2006)

Two men wake up in an isolated room only to find themselves chained by their feet to walls from a distance from each other. Neither of them have any idea where they are, how they got there or who might have kidnapped them. Soon they discover clues as to what they need to do to survive this sick test, designed by a maniac who is referred to as the "Jigsaw".
Saw grasps you from its very first moment until the end. The idea that a killer designing traps in where he places people so they will end up either killing themselves or escape with serious bodily injuries is quite horrifying. And yet, it still has a message: Jigsaw is trying to teach his victims the value of life. The story is structured very well. As two men (Adam and Dr. Gordon) start talking to each other they discover certain connections between each other and their relation to the Jigsaw. The story is two-fold, past and present: we go back in time to see the victims' past connections and we also see them co-operating to get of the situation they are presently in. But all those connections are revealed gradually serving very well to the building suspense.
As you might expect, there are some gruesome scenes in the movie but they are not gratuitous. Even though we are used to seeing some many twists at the end (it seems ever since "The Sixth Sense", every thriller/suspense movie must have a surprise ending), SAW still manages to surprise us at the end with a shocking ending. I highly recommend it to all horror fans.