Saw

Movie • 2004

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Diabolical traps, a fiendish adversary, and clues that make you squirm with every revelation. A puzzle box for the morbidly curious.

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Overview

Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With a chilling voice and cryptic instructions, Jigsaw informs them that they must partake in a gruesome game in order to secure their freedom.


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Roger Ebert

"Do we care enough about the characters to share what they have to endure? I didn't."

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The Hollywood Reporter

A horror film demented enough to suggest that its creators might have well benefited from extensive therapy as children, Saw boasts an undeniably original premise and clever plot machinations that lift it several notches above the usual slasher-film level.

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Reelviews

Saw gets a recommendation, but only if you like this kind of thing.

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Empire

'Saw', ingeniously co-scripted by Whannell and debuting director James Wan, is styled like early David Fincher and boasts an intricate structure - complex flashbacks-within-flashbacks explain how the characters have come to this crisis - and a satisfying mystery to go with its ghastly claustrophobia.

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Time Out

Like David Fincher’s ‘Seven’ and Dario Argento’s inventively nasty gialli, ‘Saw’ fuses an intricate thriller plot with a gruesome horror sensibility. The former sucks you in, the latter chews you up and spits you out.

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Common Sense Media

Parents need to know that Saw is a horror film about two men locked in a room, one of whom is tasked with killing the other in order to save his family. It's extremely violent, with shooting, physical fighting, and gore.

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IMDb

I love this movie man. I just love everything about it. Not only does this movie create an extremely tense atmosphere from start to end, it has plenty of gore and violence to bombard your eyes, not to mention that ENDING.

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IMDb

Even if the movie wasn't that good at most, the ending would save it, the ending is so perfect with that 'Hello Zepp' score.

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