A New Franchise is Born

Rating: 9/10 (12 December 2006)

Saw is nothing like Horror movies today,why do I say that because it has a good moral "appreciate your life" and it is absolutely brilliant.The story:Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn't work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn't unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn't.
Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.Saw is one of those movies that leave you thinking in the end.Saw does not have much blood there are a few gruesome scenes,but otherwise that's it.
The acting was well done,I really liked Leigh Whannels performance.The directing was surprisingly good,James Wan is a great director.The story is well written and done.Overall one hell of a twisted and brilliant Horror flick with a good lesson.