Awesome!

Rating: 10/10 (1 November 2004)

This movie will chill any audience right to the bone. A serial killer is on the loose. However he is not like any serial killer we have ever met. He plays his victims in the most sick and twisted way imaginable. He never kills his victims, but causes them to kill one another. His games feed off man's most basic and primal instinct: survival. The story opens with a man, Adam, who awakens to find himself chained to a pipe in a grungy basement. He is not alone however. Across the room is Dr. Lawrence Gordon, another abductee in the same predicament. Lying in between them is the bloody corpse of a man, with a .38 caliber weapon lying besides him. Each is given instructions via an audio tape, to the rules of the killer's sinister game. Bottom line? Kill or be killed. This movie was sick; sick and brilliant!! Not since The Silence of the Lambs have I seen a script that tight and so well written. The way Adam and Lawrence try to reason their way out of their seemingly inescapable predicament was so terrifying and fun at the same time. The bond they create is only matched by their rising suspicions of one another as time is running out. The killer, nicknamed Jigsaw, plays the characters in his game perfectly, just as he plays the audience. We are as much a prisoner to Jigsaw's games as both Adam and Lawrence. As the clock ticks down to the final hour, so does the tension, and we are practically ready to leap from our seats. This is what classic horror movies should do and Saw does it perfectly. AWESOME!