A fantastic spoof of the serial killer genre (Spoiler)

Rating: Null/10 (14 October 2004)

After expecting to see a horror movie, i was remarkably impressed to witness one of the finest spoof horrors made in years. Every cliché that exists in the serial killer movie genre was fantastically well sent up by a superb script. It all starts with the tag line "Dare you see saw", an awful pun that only makes sense once you've seen the film and realize its actually really funny. Cary Elwes managing to keep a straight face when putting in one of the greatest over-acting spectacles in many a long year. Danny Glover as the lone nut cop still out to solve the case, after seeing his partner die of course. The farcical end twist of the cancer sufferer out to teach the world a lesson. The writer(s)have taken the sentiment that existed in Seven and ripped it to shreds. The film is simply wonderful in its editing (the car chase scene where Danny Glover goes after the supposed killer is near genius) with some excellent cheesy lines thrown in along the way. The fact that the whole thing is played straight and never for laughs just adds to its deserved reputation as a great spoof. Where the average serial killer movie falls to pieces because of the awful reasoning of the plot, Saw embraces this trend of questionable logic by making the storyline, characters, motives, just everything absolutely absurd, but still manages to never turn into a farce. It perhaps reaches its pinnacle when toward the end of the film Cary Elwes is lying on the floor desperately attempting to reach his phone that lies a few mere inches away. He picks up a saw and rather using it to drag the ringing mobile towards him, he decides to cut off his foot! The film really does nail the whole serial killer genre stone dead.