The movie about blood

Rating: 3/10 (1 February 2006)

This movie is first and foremost, brutal and gory. None of the other aspects of film-making seems to be important in this film compared to the huge attention the director has put into making this movies scenes as sickening as possible.
Movies such as Se7en and Silence of the Lambs has shown that extreme gore and violence can be used to create scary and suspenseful films. However, in Saw the bloody scenes are not scary, neither do they contribute in any positive way to enhance the experience of the film. They serve only to invoke a gut response from the audience. The main purpose of the film is to be disgusting, and as such it is fairly successful, however one should not confuse gory with scary. The best thing I can say about the scenes in the film, is that they are extreme - they serve well to show the insane situations that the victims find themselves in.
But the film is just not scary, nor does it posses any other major qualities, exactly because it focuses so much on pointless gore. In my opinion the huge fascination shows a perverse fascination on violence, without any real understand into what violence really is.
I give the film 3/10 - since it did provoke me enough to write this review.