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Studio: Lionsgate
Release Date: Oct 29, 2004
Running Time: 100 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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A young man named Adam wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr. Lawrence Gordon. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand. Neither man knows why he has been abducted, but instructions left on a microcassette order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours. If he fails to do so, then both men will die; Dr. Gordon’s wife, Alison, and his daughter will also be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation by a police detective named Tapp, Dr. Gordon realizes he and Adam are the next victims of a psychopathic genius known only as “Jigsaw.” With only a few hours left to spare, they must unravel the elaborate puzzle of their fate in the midst of mounting terror. The killer has provided them with only a few clues and two handsaws--too weak to break their steel shackles, but strong enough to cut through flesh and bone.
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Zep Hindle
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PETER RELIC -
February 24, 2005
"This is the most fun I've had without lubricant," moans petulant photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell), struggling to escape a room where he and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) awaken to find themselves shackled. As these pitiful pawns are maneuvered across what looks like the desiccated set of a Nine Inch Nails video, shots from surveillance cameras provide the perspective of whoever is -- perhaps -- engineering this madness. Utterly nihilistic and relentlessly tense, Saw is a must for horror…
PETER TRAVERS -
October 14, 2004
It's gross as hell. A doctor (Cary Elwes) and a hothead (Leigh Whannell) are chained up in a basement, and only a saw can get them out. Director James Wan hits the grisly button without shame.
For his first-time effort, James Wan gets extra kudos for turning in a tightly wound, well-filmed little horror pic that will no doubt earn Lions Gate tons of dough like the Blair Witch Project did for Artisan in 1999--Saw has just that sort of buzz about it (gnuk, gnuk). You'll probably have heard the warranted complaints that it's derivative of Se7en by way of Cube with a bit of The Cell thrown in, and the end, while you may not see it coming, is waaaaay over the top. Still, you can't help but… |
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