finally a movie for the sedated!

Rating: 4/10 (18 March 2005)

Saw would have been somewhat good if the plot was developed thoroughly enough not to remind us that we are watching this movie and not "Seven" or "Identity." It is about psychopath whose victims kills themselves out of desperation, or by an inexcusable act of irony and selfishness saves themselves. There were also too many inconsistencies with the story and the directer really took too much liberty in creating loop holes for the characters to fall into and borrowing a lot of Hichcock's famous movie moments similar to one in "Rear Window" and hoping we do not take notice.On the subject of characters.... How many times do we have to see Danny Glover as a cop? Really? I bet it was a huge stretch to act out a character who has no importance in the movie and little dialog. The acting was just poor but I do not blame the actors because it is pretty obvious that the director was in the corner explaining, "okay in this scene the psychopath is watching you on tape and you have to pretend to play a game that tricks the Psychopath into thinking that maybe he sees you dead then just lay there for awhile because we might cut out the game part in the editing room and you are really dead because you have seen the Mothman, okay?