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Watch: Saw 2004 123movies, Full Movie Online – Waking up in a bathroom, two men, Adam and Dr. Lawrence Gordon, discover they have been captured by the infamous Jigsaw Killer. The men must escape before time runs out, otherwise, they will face the deadly consequences..
Plot: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying…
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Ratings:

	7.6/10 Votes: 422,796
	49% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 7747 Popularity: 46.616 | TMDB

Reviews:

The game begins
Not since Se7en’s John Doe has there been a serial killer with such a bizarre philosophy behind his actions (not that Jigsaw actually kills anyone; more on that later). Sure, in light of the increasingly deteriorating sequels it’s hard to think of Saw as little more than a franchise- starter (something the writer and director never planned), but viewed on its own, astonishing merits, it’s a good, nasty thriller, filled with solid scares and (especially compared to the follow-ups) quite well written.

According to the film’s notorious back-story, it took only 28 days to shoot it. Not that strange, given most of the action takes place in just two locations: one is a bathroom where Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) fins themselves with their feet chained to the wall, with no recollection whatsoever of how the hell they got there; the other is the lair of the mysterious Jigsaw, a serial killer whom Detectives Sing (Ken Leung) and Trapp (Danny Glover) have been tracking down for weeks.

The two facts are linked in a most ingenious way: Jigsaw doesn’t really kill anyone, but “plays a game” with his victims. In the case of Adam and Dr. Gordon, as the tape recorder found in a dead man’s hand tells them, each of them has two hours to free himself and kill the other, or they will both die. Problem is, the only way to get rid of the chains is to saw your foot off. And so, while the two unfortunate cell-mates have to choose who gets to live (that’s Jigsaw’s perverse logic: he offers you a choice), the police close in on the elusive psycho, whose previous deeds and MO are shown in flashbacks.

Whereas the subsequent Saw films use the messy chronology just for the hell of it (though they do get away with some neat narrative tweaks thanks to it), the first installment takes advantage of its non-linear storytelling to increase the suspense and provide some valuable clues to how everything fits together. It is to James Wan and co-writer Whannell’s eternal credit that they, like Se7en writer Andrew Kevin Walker, went beyond slasher clichés and came up with something more. Okay, so Saw’s philosophical undertones aren’t entirely original, but what the heck, they do manage to keep the audience interested in what’s going on. In addition, adding a little more depth to the killer ensures that the movie’s more gruesome parts (and there are a lot of them) don’t come off as gratuitous bloodletting (for an example of the latter, look no further than the countless sequels to A Nightmare on Elm Street or Friday 13th).

Furthermore, the intelligence behind the film’s structure might also have had a positive effect on the performances, given the acting is more convincing here than in most post-2000 shockers: Elwes and Whannell’s desperation is conveyed with an intensity that’s almost too painful to behold, Glover plays the aging cop role resisting the temptation to do a Lethal Weapon in-joke (you know, the “too old for this sh*t” gag) and when Jigsaw himself appears… well, it’s the horror equivalent of Keyser Soze – chilling and impossible to forget (and, for once, not played by Kevin Spacey). Just like the movie.

Takashi Miike and Giallo Films Channeled by way of David Fincher
Once the extremely improbable ending comes any viewer will feel sucker-punched in what I believe resembles any David Fincher film, most notably SE7EN, with a Takashi Miike spin. Which doesn’t detract that for the most part it’s claustrophobic, depressing, bleak, and filled with a growing sense of stomach-turning dread as the omnipresence of an unseen killer comes through, making us known anyone could be killed at any given moment, if his plans are not carried out to his satisfaction. Plans that largely include doing something unspeakable to solve a puzzle and thus, be set free.

The problem with SAW its in the script itself, with plot holes galore, and character motivations/reactions completely unclear. The two main characters undergo the suffering victims are meant to and do so down to the end, but the supporting characters fair poorly. Danny Glover’s character goes through being a broken man through the death of his partner to being badly obsessed with the Jigsaw Killer, and not once could I believe he would do most of the things he does throughout the film, like not requesting backup as he enters a deserted warehouse (in a flashback sequence), or allowing a clearly wimpy killer to get the best of him later on. Monica Potter plays Cary Elwes’ wife who witnesses the killer point a gun to her daughter’s temple while listening to her frantic heartbeats, but when she gets the chance to give him his just desserts she fails to do so because she was on the phone with her imprisoned husband. (It was a “Huh?” moment where motherhood somehow didn’t enter into the plot logic, but then again, not many did.)

Another thing which works against it is the fact that that for a genuinely interesting and even innovative premise like this one, SAW would be best as a film 20 – 30 minutes shorter with an equally shorter time span (the plot extends for an approximate five hours from start to climax), and then would the shocking twist at the end make some sense. As it is, it has the look and feel of a video game in which the menacing growl of a voice orders the victims through audio/videotape to commit a horrible and nearly impossible act in order to survive, with some rapid-fire MTV editing to add to the viewer’s disorientation and Giallo overtones (which do work here if you think of Dario Argento’s PROFONDO ROSSO or Mario Bava’s BLOOD AND BLACK LACE). Here’s hoping James Wan will make a much better film as he does have an overall good technique with his visuals.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 43 min (103 min)
Budget 1200000
Revenue 103911669
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director James Wan
Writer Leigh Whannell, James Wan
Actors Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover
Country United States
Awards 8 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby, DTS (5.1 surround), Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Panaflex Platinum, Panavision Primo Lenses, Arriflex 35-III, Panavision Primo Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, FotoKem Laboratory, Burbank (CA), USA
Film Length 2,800 m (Italy)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision2 500T 5218)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2021 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna-CP 3513DI)