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Saw (Uncut, Theatrical Version) [2004] | ![Saw (Uncut, Theatrical Version) [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5174XMYRSPL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: James Wan
Actors: Tobin Bell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer
Studio: Entertainment in Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  70 reviews
Sales Rank: 8103
Format: Anamorphic, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5017239192999
ASIN: B0007LEJNQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: February 21, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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 Saw December 13, 2007
M. N. Walker (UK)
Fantastic film.
In all ways.
Obviously there was a little bit of characterisation missed out on, but that just added to the fact that it doesnt matter who you are, if you do not appreciate your life, you are at risk.
Saw (2004) October 28, 2007
Jake M. Cochrane (Harrold, Bedfordshire)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Movies like "Saw" have no relevance in the movie industry. They are filled with mindless violence, over the top gore, gallons of blood, and poor direction/dialogue. They are utterly awlful. Horror movies have become a disaster, a castrophy (look at the likes of "Hostel", "Wrong Turn", "The Decent" etc). "Saw" is gory. And it is very gory. But "Saw" is different. "Saw" is clever. And it really is very clever.
The story centers on two men, Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes), both are unaware of their surroundings. They both wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn't. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die.
They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn't work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn't unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn't. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn't actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire 'game' out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.
It is a tense movie, sometimes almost to tense. The director, James Wan, is a master of tension. The original verison of "Saw" was written by Wan two years before the theatrical verison (this one). It was a nine minute horror based on a hospital patient who is kidnapped and is forced to play a twisted game. These 'games' become an essential part in all of the "Saw" movies.
The Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell) is never seen throughout the movie, maybe this add's to the tension (What does this character look like? Is he disturbed? Is he old?), however we do catch a glimpse of his puppet ("Billy") who delivers the messages of Doom before each victim begins the "game". Of course, the voice whom delivers the message is The Jigsaw Killer, but his face is never shown. Only the Puppet's. Each message is recorded on either a audio or visual tape. The ideas that have flown out of Wan's mind have been projected perfectly. Some of the scenes couldn't have been done better.
However, there is a star missing. This missing star comes from the cast. Most of the cast did their roles very well, however the detectives were very badly portrayed as were many of the victims. But apart from those performances, the movie was perfect.
really good! October 18, 2007
I. Graham (Northern Ireland)
I had to leave a review of this movie just because its soo good!
It's a really intelligent(sp?) movie and to be honest it is really kinda disturbingly graphic and gory but to be fair you are watching a horror movie so it should be expected.
Theres no point going on and on and about this, so i would recomend you watch it if you do like a good storyline, a good horror movie and if you dont mind some gore (which, as i said you should be expecting if you want to watch a good horror movie)
The acting is perfect in the movie and as i said the storyline and everything is top notch.
A brilliant phsycological thriller/horror.
i definatley recomend you check this one out!
I Saw this and so should you. October 13, 2007
DowTheOrganic (Dublin, Ireland)
After hearing all the hype about it being a grisly, blood-fest of horror, I was rather put-off because I thought it would just be another slasher flick. How wrong I was. The plot is simple to start off with, but twists and transforms into a thoroughly fantastic film. At the end (don't worry, I won't ruin it) I thought the use of the theme was brilliant as all was revealed. The idea of someone making people realise how lucky they are to be alive by using deadly traps that are escapable is a brilliant concept. I can't reccommend this enough to everyone I know. James Wan directs brilliantly and makes us feel compelled to watch and become engrossed in the film as it becomes more deep. As with nearly every film, the first is easily the best.
"He wants us to saW through our feet" September 19, 2007
Mr. A. P. Venables
Saw is a unique film that ultimately loses its way. The first thirty minutes are sublime better than and scarier then anything else in recent memory. Two men awaken from an apparent abduction chained to pipes and they realise that they are the victim of someone called the Jigsaw killer.
The Jigsaw killer is a genius nightmarish creation. He places people in painstakingly prepared death traps with the victims having to go to endure physical and mental pain in order to escape. If they do escape they remain forever changed able to embrace the gift of life.
By the time the character is first shown he has already reached demonic status and we already know how clever and dangerous he is.
Saw also goes a further than most films, rarely using humour to relief the tension and there is no easy cop out for any of the characters. I want to give it five stars but I really can't.
Towards the end it nose dives a little, becomes a little juvenile, a little too eager to ram home its point that people don't always embrace life as much as we should. It's almost like the maturity of the central idea can only go so far and the childish need to shock ultimately rules the film.
I still enjoyed immensely and still think its truly original but had it stayed on course til the end it would have been one of the greatest horror films ever made.
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