2008 Woodie Awards
Psycho-thriller plays mind games on screen
Ryne Alexander
Issue date: 11/11/04 Section: Lifestyles
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The gore and suspense was the reason I went to see "Saw". The commercials didn't even show how well writer/director James Wan and writer/director Leigh Whannell put this movie together.
The movie starts out with Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Lawrence (Cary Elwes, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) chained to pipes in an abandon bathroom, which looked like it hasn't been cleaned for over two decades. Their shackles only gave them a limited ability to move maybe a few feet.
Their mobility wasn't enough for them to reach each other or the bloody corpse that lies on the floor between them. Adam and Lawrence just set there and look puzzled.
Their captor has left them a few clues and tools to try an escape. Clues and tools were an unloaded gun, which is out of reach; a tape recorder, two saws, a cell phone, and two cigarettes. It's all part of someone's sick, twisted game and if Adam and Lawrence don't play the game right, one or maybe both will be dead.
Lawrence finds out that his wife Alison (Monica Potter, Con Air) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega, The Family Man) are in danger if Lawrence doesn't play the game.
It turns out that Adam and Lawrence are part of a unique game that only one serial killer ("The Jigsaw Killer") could think of. The Jigsaw Killer really didn't kill anybody, he just found ways for his victims to kill themselves.
Other star characters in this movie were Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon series), Ken Leung (Rush Hour), and Shawnee Smith (Becker: TV Series).
This is definitely a movie for all you gore and horror lovers. But it's not like "Psycho" or "Halloween" this one makes you think you have the killer mapped out before the end of the movie. Believe me thinking is the hard part.
This horror movie is rated R for strong grisly violence and language.
The movie starts out with Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Lawrence (Cary Elwes, Robin Hood: Men in Tights) chained to pipes in an abandon bathroom, which looked like it hasn't been cleaned for over two decades. Their shackles only gave them a limited ability to move maybe a few feet.
Their mobility wasn't enough for them to reach each other or the bloody corpse that lies on the floor between them. Adam and Lawrence just set there and look puzzled.
Their captor has left them a few clues and tools to try an escape. Clues and tools were an unloaded gun, which is out of reach; a tape recorder, two saws, a cell phone, and two cigarettes. It's all part of someone's sick, twisted game and if Adam and Lawrence don't play the game right, one or maybe both will be dead.
Lawrence finds out that his wife Alison (Monica Potter, Con Air) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega, The Family Man) are in danger if Lawrence doesn't play the game.
It turns out that Adam and Lawrence are part of a unique game that only one serial killer ("The Jigsaw Killer") could think of. The Jigsaw Killer really didn't kill anybody, he just found ways for his victims to kill themselves.
Other star characters in this movie were Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon series), Ken Leung (Rush Hour), and Shawnee Smith (Becker: TV Series).
This is definitely a movie for all you gore and horror lovers. But it's not like "Psycho" or "Halloween" this one makes you think you have the killer mapped out before the end of the movie. Believe me thinking is the hard part.
This horror movie is rated R for strong grisly violence and language.