Post by GIASI on Sept 27, 2006 10:53:30 GMT 3
The only point of the movie is to show a bunch of gruesome deaths by trapping a group of people somewhere and making it seem like their decisions cause their deaths. The creator of this entire scenario is cancer patient Jigsaw, who's somehow set up these traps despite being confined to a wheelchair and barely able to breathe. We're supposed to believe that he's this incredible mastermind and that he can foresee every possibility and every action of every person in the entire film.
I don't think it would have been possible for me to care less about the characters in this film. Which i think is probably something of an accomplishment. Detective Eric Matthews (who graduated from the "swearing very loudly and overturning tables" school of policing) has a falling out with his son. Next thing he knows, Jigsaw is sitting right in front of him, but has trapped his son in a house with a few others, including an apparently very unlucky girl who's already survived Jigsaw once. So, there are two games going on here. The first entails the Detective trying to figure out where this house is. The second involves the people trying to follow the rules of the house to avoid a gruesome death. Since the Detective can't kill Jigsaw and risk not learning the house's location, he has to endure a conversation with him. So do we.
The set-up for the victims is basically ridiculous. They're in this old, rickety house, but somehow Jigsaw has arranged for a deadly nerve agent to be pumped in through the ducts continuously. There are about as many holes in that idea as there are holes in the house. There's also a ridiculous amount of coincidence going on. For instance, one bloke gets shot because he's looking through a peephole at precisely the same moment that another bloke turns a key.
Jigsaw's rationale for putting people in these situations is that they don't appreciate life. He specifically picks people who sell drugs or have drug addictions or who are Republicans.
I think even die hard gore fans will not like this movie. I tried to find some redeeming acting or character development but it was like looking for rocking horse shit.
Rating 3/10 (and that was only for the braless babe in the pink top)
I don't think it would have been possible for me to care less about the characters in this film. Which i think is probably something of an accomplishment. Detective Eric Matthews (who graduated from the "swearing very loudly and overturning tables" school of policing) has a falling out with his son. Next thing he knows, Jigsaw is sitting right in front of him, but has trapped his son in a house with a few others, including an apparently very unlucky girl who's already survived Jigsaw once. So, there are two games going on here. The first entails the Detective trying to figure out where this house is. The second involves the people trying to follow the rules of the house to avoid a gruesome death. Since the Detective can't kill Jigsaw and risk not learning the house's location, he has to endure a conversation with him. So do we.
The set-up for the victims is basically ridiculous. They're in this old, rickety house, but somehow Jigsaw has arranged for a deadly nerve agent to be pumped in through the ducts continuously. There are about as many holes in that idea as there are holes in the house. There's also a ridiculous amount of coincidence going on. For instance, one bloke gets shot because he's looking through a peephole at precisely the same moment that another bloke turns a key.
Jigsaw's rationale for putting people in these situations is that they don't appreciate life. He specifically picks people who sell drugs or have drug addictions or who are Republicans.
I think even die hard gore fans will not like this movie. I tried to find some redeeming acting or character development but it was like looking for rocking horse shit.
Rating 3/10 (and that was only for the braless babe in the pink top)
