every puzzle has its pieces

Rating: 10/10 (21 February 2005)

eventually, something prods you up wildly. Adam wakes up in a dank room across from doctor Lawrence Gordon and the body of a guy who has blown his own brains out(ostensibly).not a happy place,obviously,and it gets worse when both men realize that they have been chained respectively and pitted against one another by an unseen but apparently omniscient maniac who is screwing with their psyches as payment for past sins.director James wan, who concocted this enormously grimy distraction with screenwriter whannell,has seen seven and any number of other arty yet existential-psycho-can-and-mouse thriller,so he has provided saw with a touch of flash,a slew of blood,and a bundle of ways to dispel you from the fact that it does not make a whole hell of a lot of sense.wan and whannell( who is not the most accomplished actor,either) pile on the plot twists,which after some initially novel ideas become increasingly juvenile and puerile.elwes works hard but looks rather embarrassed,and the estimable Danny glover suffers as the frenzied obsessed detective on the case