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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 46% Rotten Page   1   4.5/5 "Original, sorprendente, terrible, intensa. Un recuerdo de lo que el cine de terror y thriller debe ser, una historia que te atrapa, y te corta en pedazos."   Cinenganos   Alex Ramirez 2/4 "Though the film does work marginally well as a satire of modern serial killer thrillers and their Byzantine games of cat-and-mouse, I have a hunch that's the zeitgeist's doing"   Film Freak Central   Bill Chambers A- "The simple setup ropes us in immediately and never lets up, and some of the imagery will stick with even the most hardened viewer for days."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark F "If every year has a Showgirls, Saw is the prime candidate for 2004."   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf 2.5/5 "An unsatisfying copout that falls apart five minutes after you leave the theater"   Filmcritic.com   Christopher Null "Saw's serial killing is classically grotesque, with emphasis on bodily abuses, in that low-budget-make-a-splash sort of way."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/5 "I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole mess, and unless you have a high tolerance for pretentious, nonsensical, unscary crap, you’ll be laughing, too."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius 2.5/4 "This is the kind of scare-fest that gets under your skin but is too busy elsewhere to penetrate your defenses."   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 2/4 "Saw's intriguing and genuinely creepy premise is quickly undone by the limitations of both the script and the performers."   Movie Boeuf   David N. Butterworth 3.5/4 "...though Elwes has received a lot of criticism for his work here, the actor delivers a surprisingly effective performance that feels believable and appropriate..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C- "Blood splatter antics take over and make it a tough watch for the queasy and those who still consider themselves sane."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "Too many twists, turns, false solutions, implausibilities and impossibilities."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 4/10 " just another collection of horror movie cliches"   Draxblog Movie Reviews   Dragan Antulov 2/4 "Saw simply doesn't cut it."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B+ "If Whannell's script doesn't get all the talky parts quite right, he certainly nails the mechanics of telling the story: what to reveal, when to reveal it, and so on."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 4/4 "A freakishly entertaining, edge-of-your-seat whodunit with both psychosomatic implications and the landscape drenched in the thick red stuff"   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress B- "Saw is laughable, but it's worth laughing at."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 1.5/4 "Wan struggles to bring this hallow hedonistic horror show to its full potential. Sadly, this Saw doesn’t quite cut through the tumultuous malarkey"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Messy and rather revolting, but carrying an undeniable visceral impact. On that level, Saw works. It just happens to be a very low level."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/4 "On the strength of a grippingly original concept and 90 strong minutes of building action, Saw gets a recommendation, but only if you like this kind of thing."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "Serial-killer chiller isn't jaw-droppingly terrifying, but it's not terrifyingly bad, either."   Netflix   James Rocchi 2/4 "Showcases gratuitous gore and the ubiquitously macabre bells and whistles that pass themselves off as fear."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 4/10 "Able to hold interest most of the way through, unraveling back stories that feel as if they might lead to something. But then the ending arrives."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 2/4 "Predictably, the twists exist for their own sake and aren’t grounded in character or theme."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 8/10 "Proves that a film can be intellectually stimulating and as freaky as your cat on acid."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 2.5/5 "Out of Seven, I give it a 4. Genuinely creepy, however."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 3.0/4.0 "... the cross-bred horror-thriller you’ve been waiting for since Seven."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "Sawdances close to the edge of cliche, but doesn’t fall into the pit too often. It sets up some excellent red herrings, and I was satisfied with the ending."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "Tyro director James Wan...is obviously a huge David Fincher fan as "Saw" ransacks both "Se7en" and "The Game" albeit in bargain basement fashion"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/5 "A twisted, squirm-inducingly nasty bit of work."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh "I take it as proof that Saw is half a parody of serial-killer movies... that Elwes goes stark raving bonkers off-the-deep-end awful in the film’s final moments."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 1/4 "A pointless exercise in shock value."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan "Saw’s overly elaborate, sporadically effective do-or-die games ultimately don’t make the cut."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager "I can't quite work up the nerve to fully recommend it (that ending is really awful) but I do appreciate the energy and skill that it has been made with."   Critic Doctor   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "This disturbing and violent movie gleefully plays with our minds as it twists and turns through its tricky, menacing plot."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline D- "First-time feature filmmaker James Wan has delivered one of the most overwrought, half-baked, shamelessly exploitive entries into this disastrously underutilized genre."   TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)   Rick Curnutte 3/5 "Saw gets by on its mood of industrial dread."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C "Though it has its share of unsettling moments, it's not nearly as scary as it wants to be."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux " And I thought the slow-motion flying flesh of The Passion of the Mel was sadistic. It's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo placed alongside James Wan's grissly Saw."   Movie Views   Ryan Cracknell 5/5 "A cult classic waiting to happen for those who like their Horror Movies dark, smart, twisted and hard."   eFilmCritic.com   Scott Weinberg B+ "... the most extreme entry yet in the bleak and dusky splinter of American thrillers about criminal geniuses with messianic egos and sadistic torments..."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/10 "There is such a storm of terrible dialogue in Saw as to legitimately draw comparisons to none less than Ed Wood."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1/4 "A bad film badly written, badly performed, badly scored, and most of all, badly directed, Saw's a mess, a waste of flesh. And I don't mean that in a good way."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 8/10 Read review   Movie Gazette   Anton Bitel 8/10 Read review   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 2/4 Read review   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 46% Rotten Page   1