(One involves a machine bolted to the victim's head, with a mechanism inserted into the mouth, which is timed to rip the jaws apart after the deadline. Gordon has to kill Adam by 6 o'clock, or his wife and daughter will be murdered.Ī parallel story involves the efforts of two detectives to track down the Jigsaw Killer, who has posed such deadly ultimatums to earlier victims. The corpse remains a mystery for a long time, but the tape recording is helpful: It informs both men that Dr. The men are Adam (played by Leigh Whannell, who co-wrote the screenplay) and Dr. Near the corpse are a revolver, a tape recorder and a saw. In the center of the floor is a corpse in a pool of blood. Two men are chained by leg irons to opposite walls.

A clock on the wall says it is 2 o'clock. The movie opens in a locked public toilet. Horror fans may forgive its contrivances. That said, 'Saw' is well made and acted, and does what it does about as well as it could be expected to. Sometimes that works, as in ' The Silence of the Lambs,' and sometimes we simply feel toyed with. Named 'The Jigsaw Killer,' he joins that sturdy band of movie serial killers with time on their hands to devise elegant puzzles for their victims and the police. 'Saw' by contrast depends on an improbably devious and ingenious villain who creates complications for the convenience of the screenplay.

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