Salt in the bleeding wound!

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2005)

To start with I'd like to recommend this flick to everybody who's searching for a mentally gripping horror movie. Here it is.
But to say it aloud I don't really recommend it in every sense. Again it succeeded to open a mental wound and stray salt in it to gain such a hype around a low budget movie which was in fact solely entertaining but sometimes not consistent in its meaning.
In my opinion the idea of setting up such a scenery is something innovative but in order to scare the viewer it should have stuck more to rational sense of logic. For instance the scene where Detective Sing shotguns Jigsaw in the back, the killer slams to the floor, recovering and then continuing his escape from his hideout. The irrationality of it, is firstly that Jigsaw had sustained a serious wound in the back which should have restricted him in his plans, secondly that this hideout was from this point on known to the cops but as we all know was later reoccupied by him or Zeb in one later scene.
Well, at least for me it has decreased the dread-factor of the movie along with some other twists which appear rather illogical to me.
Why do I rate this movie 6 then?
Evidently the message of this movie is "what would you do to survive?" or better formulated "Do you appreciate your life? If you can't answer this I have to show you how horrible it could be by exposing your weaknesses to depict how beautiful life can possibly be."
At the end of the movie I thought "Hey this movie conveyed a true message, we all live like numb primates and have all individual weaknesses without knowing them." And with this insight despite all potential plot twist which are a matter of opinion I admit that SAW fulfilled it sense lately.