Saw

USA 2004 - Thriller — 102 min — Directed by James Wan
Cast: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer, Mike Butters

Adam and Lawrence wake up chained to pipes at opposite ends of a dirty utility room. They soon learn that they have become the victims of the Jigsaw, a serial killer who devises intricate situations to get his victims to kill each other. Pitted against the clock and each other, the two must work to outwit their captor and save Gordon's family, who have been taken hostage by the killer.

Been told by some friends to watch this. I refused to hear anything about it, except that it was suposedly a good thriller with a sicko story. It was well executed and told, but for some reason it failed to engage me. Sure, it's mostly a psychological thriller, being that if you were put in the same situation - what would you do? I get it. I felt that the writers had tried too hard to be casual about the story, and it got me thinking that at some point, everything will be turned on its head. And in the last scene, sure we get the surprising plot-twist that I was anticipating all along. Which sadly, doesn't make it a surprising at all. I liked the sequence with the woman with the mouth-trap best. Nasty. Barbwire guy was also nasty.

My Rating: 7 / 10