Assuming that you live in the UK, this film came out last week. Pretty positive feedback so far - I'll be catching up with it next week, along with MAN ON FIRE, BRIGHT LEAVES, GOODBYE DRAGON INN and RADIO ON - this is getting expensive! I've had a pretty darned good week at the cinema - HERO, METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER and DEAD MAN'S SHOES (recommended particularly for extreme cinema fans) - all excellent...
Ignore all comparisons to "Se7en", there's really no similarity! The acting can be a bit ropey at times, but it's still one of the freshest horror/thrillers for years.
It seems as though "Saw" will be getting a R2 DVD release sometime in February. Maybe you'll eventually be able to persuade someone to watch it with you!
How did the guy in the bath not drown? He was totally submerged in water. Yet when he woke the Doctor on the other side of the bathroom was up and walking around. How did the killer put him in the bath and set the scene up within two or three minutes before he would have drowned? And surely the Doctor would have heard what was going on and therefore his plan and that ridiculous twist ending couldn't have possibly worked in reality. Which ever way you look at it it just doesn't make any sense, and to me is totally laughable. Why do they spend so much time talking about whos doing this to them? I'd have thought at that point in time it was totally irrelevant, they were on a tight time limit, I'd have thought trying to escape would be far more important. It would be to me. When Danny Glover finds some hard evidence as to who the killer is why does he just take one cop and not tell anyone else? And why couldn't they just arrest him? Shoot him in the leg anything but to just let him run away when they were both armed? The one cop runs after him and fires his shotgun into his back. The killer falls over but there is no wound or damage to his clothes. What happened to the gunshot that was fired straight at him? Even if the killer was wearing protection surely his outer clothing would have been ripped by the shotgun blast. The killer was supposedly ill yet he managed to overpower a young man with a baseball bat quite easily it seemed. Why was Danny Glover paying the photographer to take pictures of the Doctor? How did the killer know this? When you think about it it simply doesn't make any sense. And other thing about that awful twist ending, what if the third man involved in the game didn't turn up or something happened to him, how would the killer escape? There was no way to open the door from the inside, or so it seemed. Why did the Doctor not see that there was no empty shells in the gun when he picked it up and opened the chamber? The dead man couldn't have committed suicide, he was calm enough to take aim and shoot the photographer in the shoulder only wounding him. So it wasn't like he had gone insane or mad, he was still sane and alert. And the reason they were both chosen was a let down. One because he was having an affair and the other because he took photographs of people, wow very exciting, not. I could write about the stupid plots holes in the film all day if I wanted but I'll stop now.
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I Loved this film, it was very creepy with a good few suprises in it :P
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