Saw (2004)
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- Actors:
Cary Elwes,
Monica Potter
- Format:
Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
- Language:
English
- Subtitles:
English
- Region:
Region 1
(U.S.
and Canada only.
Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect
Ratio:
1.78:1
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| Adam
(Leigh Whannell) wakes up in a dank room across from Dr. Lawrence
Gordon (Cary Elwes) and the body of a guy who has blown his own brains
out. Not
a happy place, obviously, and it gets worse when both men realize that
they've
been chained and pitted against one another by an unseen but apparently
omniscient maniac who's screwing with their psyches as payment for past
sins.
Director James Wan, who concocted this grimy distraction with
screenwriter
Whannell, has seen Seven
and any number of other arty existential-psycho-cat-and-mouse
thrillers, so he's provided Saw
with a little flash, a little blood, and
a lot of ways to distract you from the fact that it doesn't make a
whole hell
of a lot of sense. Wan and Whannell (who's not the most accomplished
actor,
either) pile on the plot twists, which after some initially novel ideas
become
increasingly juvenile. Elwes works hard but looks embarrassed, and the
estimable Danny Glover suffers as the obsessed detective on the case.
The
denouement will probably surprise you, but it won't get you back the
previous
98 minutes. --Steve Wiecking |
