Too many coincidences

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2007)

Spoiler To many coincidences to make the plot work. The movie is actually very silly if you think about it. If you watch the movie simply for the gore it is OK I guess, but if you give it a moments thought it is very poor and full of plot holes and poor continuity. In no particular order; Why would Amanda go into the house with all the other victims? She was in the room with all the others and was likely exposed to the same nerve gas. She likely had already taken an antidote and was not going to die but she could have been killed by one of the others. At the end of the movie Xavier is going to kill Amanda and Daniel. And in an amazing change of character Daniel jumps up and slices is throat very cleanly with a very dull looking hacksaw. Besides being impossible to do with a hacksaw it is too coincidently and crucial to the plot. If Xavier had killed them both or even just her the story is over. If Eric had simply waited 15 more minutes at the end he would have been reunited with his son and then he could have killed jigsaw. It is quite a coincidence that he went with Jigsaw. When he gets to the house where Jigsaw takes him he leaves Jigsaw (serial killer) unattended in the van. Why would he trust jigsaw to stay in the van? Was it jigsaws van or a police van? When Eric finds the person in the bathtub why wouldn't he poke the person with a piece of wood or metal bar. He must have expected a trap when he went into the house (remember Jigsaw lead him to the house). I am guessing that an irate cop would have shot the person in the tub when they quickly lunged out. The person in the tub was facing away, it would have been very easy to simply jump back.
When Jigsaw and Eric run off near the end of the movie why didn't the police follow him? The SWAT team would have had many members outside securing the entire area. It would be impossible anybody to enter or leave the building unnoticed. If the entire SWAT team would have followed him the ending would have been very different.
Less critical to the movie is the clock behind Jigsaw. Watch the time on it throughout the movie. It changes backward and forward and at one point 1.5 hours passes on the video of the victims but only 0.5 hours passes on the clock. Maybe the clock doesn't work or the timer for the victims is off?