Great movie

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2006)

A lot of people class this movie as "just another gore-fest." I saw it at the cinema, and I have to say, yes, it is gory, but the mastermind behind it all (Jigsaw) does have a reason why he's doing it, if just very warped. I like this movie because it is very cleverly done.
We learn that Jigsaw is dying of cancer, and in order to make people appreciate the time they have alive, he challenges them. Not once does he actually kill anybody with his own hands - he gives them a task,a chance to live, and if they pass it they live. If they fail, they die. Everyone in the house has something they shouldn't have done in the past which affected others' lives. By setting them a challenge is payback and a way of making them suffer the way they made others suffer. Everybody in the house inadvertedly knows each other through their past actions.
Everybody has the part that grosses them out - the headtrap, the needle pit, obie trapped in the furnace... It is one of the few movies (other than ichi the Killer)that actually made me feel queasy.