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In Reply to: Saw Saw, don't...(spoiler but who cares?) posted by Jeff Starrs on March 24, 2005 at 08:05:31:
Sure, there's a bit of gore, but it's not excessive (like Reservoir Dogs, which is the most "pornographically" violent movie of all time) and it's all plot driven.
The ending is brilliant, as are the dropping of clues throughout.
I thought, after seeing the previews, that it was another gory rip-off. NOT!
It has originality (yes, it borrows riffs from other movies, but so do many classics...so what? Does it create its own originality? YES.)
The characters fully are developed and, contrary to Jeff's assertion, the venue moves from hospital to home to parking garage to....well, let's just say I don't think you'll be disappointed. the unfortunate title gives the wrong impression. This movie has little in common with "splatter" genre films; it's a sophisticated, cerebral (and a bit bloody, too) thriller.
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I found SAw quite captivating, it was dark and suspenseful...the twist at the end was not predictable, with the 'real' villian surfacing...and ending the way it did..."did the doctor survive the ordeal, or did he bleed to death, or did the killer finish him off for not killing the other guy???" Maybe it would have been better if the camera focused only on the startled expression of the photographer as he witness the dead body arising, and seeing his inevitable death, thus keeping the audience in the dark, showing the empty space where the body was as the camera cuts to the killer as he exists the room...
...what I can recuperate from this is the joyful fact that everybody has their own opinions!!!!
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I really wanted to like this one, tin, but the give-away ending which was completely ripped off from Copy Cat, destroyed any ingenuity for me.
How did that guy, anyway, get from the hospital to that place to organize it all & lay for five hours without moving? C'mon!!!!?????
Why did Zap feel obliged to do what he did?
Why didn't he just call the cops?
Lots of unanswered ends....maybe I should see it again.
The acting was great, though.
I got Silence of the Lambs, Seven & Copy Cat as a great 'serial killer' trio.
Saw doesn't add to it.
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quartet. I haven't seen Copy Cat but if you link it with those other two excellent films...I shall.
I think Manhunter is very good, as well, though I'd hesitate to put in that exalted company.
I enjoyed the original Vanishing, the remake was too Hollywood for me. I have not seen Copycat or Manhunter, so if SAW ripped then off I would be no wiser.
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