| Saw (2004) Cast:Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Leigh Whannell, Monica Potter, Dina Meyer, Tobin Bell Two men wake up in a room and find out that in order for one of them to survive, one of them must kill the other. Seems that "The Jigsaw Killer" looks to do them in for taking life for grantedin this unbelievably overrated and rotten serial killer thriller. You know you're in trouble when the scenes of torture depict laughter instead of terror. With this lameduck thriller one truly wonders if people are honestly too sensitive. People call this thriller so scary, so mean spirited and psychological. Did these people see Se7en? Or Last House On The Left? Or The Hills Have Eyes?Or anything when things got so mean spirited that it ended with a sense of grim irony even when the heroes of those movies prevailed? I guess not. Saw is so derivative of Cube and Se7en that it comes out at best as a third rate imitiation. Although things aren't helped out by the hysterical over the top acting from Cary Elwes. Elwes is so over the top with his acting, that he belongs playing a villain in a Death Wish sequel. All of this of course is mediocre stuff (Which would put it in the two star range) until we get what has to be the dumbest ending ever. By this point the movie has gotten surreal (Well, with Elwes' over the top insanity) that when the ending comes it just underlines how bad the rest of the movie was. Movies like Saw work if they get down to business and build suspense and grit within their premise. They don't however when the serial killer's method of murder is so over the top it's ridiculous, when an ending depends on our heroes have nothing but crap floating between their ears and nothing but cliches. Saw doesn't work in the extreme and worst of all, Saw is very dull. . D.James Wan* |