See Saw: The Must See Movie For Movie Buffs
May 20th, 2005 by Ashok
If you haven’t seen it already, see SAW.
It’s probably the smartest script you’ve seen rendered into film since The Usual Suspects.
It’s a low-budget film, with the scriptwriter playing one of the main leads, and made on a shoestring budget (by Hollywood standards, $1.2 million) by two very creative and resourceful young talents, both of whom originated the idea and directed, wrote and performed in the film.
Don’t worry, it’s no arty farty bore. This is a seat-of-the-edge, bite-nailing, packed-tension thriller…so thrilling, it’ll leave you tongue-twisted like I am.
The script is absolutely brilliant; so brilliant, I won’t give away a single bit of it.
Just know this: It’s about a serial killer who never kills a single person.
It features a final-moment twist-in-the-tale that twists a knife in your guts.
I guarantee you’ll whoop with surprise when the killer finally reveals himself at the very end of the movie.
Of course, some of you may guess who the killer is very early in the picture - who knows, you may even guess correctly.
Stranger things have been known to happen.
The production is just right. It doesn’t look low-budget, just appropriate for the scenes portrayed.
I’m sure a big Hollywood studio would have thrown a ton of money on the screen, but it wouldn’t improve the film substantially. Frankly, I’m sick of over-produced Hollywood extravaganzas and over-paid stars.
Give me a film like this anyday. Sure, it’s gore-drenched and bloody, but it’s also bloody brilliant.
It’s nerve-wracking throughout, with some genuine shocker moments which, even though they use classic movie cliche tricks, still they work. Turns the whole slasher movie on its head, with the killer turning out, in a sense, to be the only ‘moral’ character in the whole film.
Enough said. Just see it. And I guarantee, you’ll not be disappointed.
