I saw saw !!

Advantages: Some good effects
Disadvantages: Wife hid behind cushion for all of film ( is this a disadvantage?)

... SAW (film only review) Details: Director: James Wan Release Date: 1 October 2004 Certification: 18 (UK) Runtime: 103 mins I am not usually one to watch horror films but when my eldest grandson came to stay he put this on for us wrinklies to watch with him. STORY Adam and Lawrence, both with shackles on their ankles, and a dead body in the middle of the room. Adam doesn't know Lawrence, or the dead body so his head is full of unanswerable questions. Why is he here in this dirty room ? Who is this Lawrence? Why is that guy dead!, and who is he? When Lawrence and Adam tell their stories, it turns out they have both been "kidnapped" and taken against their will to this room, and neither of them know how to get out. When they find tapes in their pockets, and a tape player...

baherbc 10.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Saw (DVD)

Saw the first of many

Advantages: : A great film, good effects!
Disadvantages: The story doesn't end!!!!

... Saw (film only review) Details: Director: James Wan Release Date: 1 October 2004 Certification: 18 (UK) Runtime: 103 mins The first of 5 Saw films. Saw came out in 2004, and I don't think anybody knew just how big it was going to get. The problem with the Saw series, is that you have to have watched all of them to watch one of them, otherwise you can get very confused by what is happening! Also, at the end of each film you have to watch the next one to find otu what is going to happen! Annoying in a way, but also very clever by the film makers! Plot: When Adam wakes up in a dark and dingy room with Lawrence, both with shackles on their ankles, and a dead body in the middle of the room, his life comes crashing in around him. And his head is full of unanswerable questions, why is he here? Who...

stephbond89 20.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Saw (DVD)

Saw Point

Advantages: Good concept
Disadvantages: Bargain basement acting

...a checklist of available flourishes. Gimmicks aside, ?Saw? works as a competent serial killer flick, making the audience jump in all the right places. Unfortunately the standard of acting doesn?t live up to the imaginative premise. The main problem is the casting and characterisation of the two leads. The thing is, neither Adam nor Dr Gordon are written to be likeable and the more we learn about them, the less likely we are to empathise with them. In fact I was rooting for their deaths. Though Leigh Whannell may have co-written the script, his lack of acting credentials is very apparent. For the majority of the film he doesn?t look as though he fears for his life. He eventually grows into the character of Adam, but by that time the film is almost over. British-born Cary Elwes has made a career of playing bland good guys and toothless villains...

afy9mab 18.10.2004 · Read review
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Probably the only saw you'll ever need for that exakt job

Advantages: safe, easy to use and a must for all DIYers
Disadvantages: none at all

...I have been going through a few of my tools lately, reviewing a handful of them as I go, so I when I came across this particular tool I wanted to tell the world, or at least those who read on this site, all about it. The tool in question is, in my opinion, a must for all DIYers, or even if you?re in the trade, and is one genius invention which has changed the world of sawing for ever. The name of this brilliant piece of equipment is in fact the JML ?Exakt? saw, and when they say ?Exakt? they really mean exact, as that is what it is. This saw almost makes most other saws obsolete, giving a straighter cut than a jigsaw, a more precise cut than a circular saw and a quicker cut than the good old handsaw. The ?Exakt? saw is designed to be safe and very very versatile, giving the user 4000 rpm of power which will cut through most...

blissman70 09.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of JML Exakt Saw

I Saw Saw

Advantages: A novel idea, a few grusome scenes
Disadvantages: Poorly executed, resorts to cliches

...Every once in a while a small movie comes along that shakes up the genre. Saw is one of those movies, it generated a little word of mouth in the months before it?s release and was generally portrayed as a good movie with a decent premise. You could call it the low budget version of Seven as it has a lot of comparisons to Fincher?s classic thriller. Two men awaken to find themselves in an old bathroom, each of them is chained to a pipe in opposite corners of the room. In the middle of the room lies a dead body. Both of the men can?t recall how they got there and both don?t know whom the other one is. Soon they are introduced to the warped mind of a killer known as Jigsaw. He is watching them at all times, each of them are given clues on how to escape but it would mean killing the other man. While this is going on we find out that...

utero 28.01.2005 · Read review
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Dare You See Saw?

Advantages: a great premise, a thriller that actually thrills
Disadvantages: suspect acting, some minor scripting problems

...swear there is a film like that on release every other month. When will we see a 'thriller' that actually attempts or even determines to 'thrill', that emotional variance from content to excited, which it claims to do hence its cataloguing in the 'Thriller' section. Being my usual deadpan, cynical self, I thought out loud: "Hollywood can't thrill me anymore?" I stand corrected? Along comes freshman filmmaker James Wan and his writing associate Leigh Whannell and offer us "Saw". Like most serial killer thrillers of similar ilk, "Saw" harks back to the glory of David Fincher's modern classic "Se7en" but what sets "Saw" apart from its counterparts from both Thriller and Slasher genres is the fact that you're not too sure what's going to happen next. The initial premise is incredibly simple; two strangers wake up inside a secure room...

DarkMark 12.08.2005 · Read review
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What the Yeoman saw

Advantages: handy
Disadvantages: none

...When sorting the saws out in my garage I found we, or butterfly conservation owns a Yeoman 21inch blade bow saw * Just in case you do not know what a bow saw is. A bow saw has a long straight thin blade which is fitted at each end to a thin metal frame that curves like an archers bow. *Price I looked on line to see how much it costs at Wyevale garden centre it costs £7.99 a replacement blade costs £3.49. I think this is where we bought ours as we have a couple of these garden centres nearby. We could have bought on line from Wyevale http://www.wyevale.co.uk *Bow frame. This bow saw is a green one with the word YEOMAN printed in with in the centre of the curved metal tubular bow. The saw blade fits to both ends of the bow. At one end it fits with a screw through a hole through a flattened end of the bow. The other end...

mumsymary 14.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Yeoman Bow Saw

A Saw Point

Advantages: Quickly Over
Disadvantages: MTV filmmaking at it's worst

...Personally I just don't understand why the Saw franchise has been successful, the first movie was a good concept poorly executed and the second wasn't great apart from a few novel traps. So comes Halloween time, Saw 4 has been knocked out but I still hadn't seen the third instalment. Would there be enough to change me into a jigsaw fan? This episode sees our main villain Jigsaw consigned to his deathbed, slowly dying from a brain disease. Having garnered a sidekick in previous victim and now jigsaw groupie Amanda, he can still stage elaborate and gruesome traps for people who've got some skeletons in the closet or need an awakening on their life. So they kidnap a female doctor and place her in a collar rigged to explode should she fail to keep Jigsaw from flatlining. Meanwhile they're playing a game with a father torn with grief over...

utero 15.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Saw 3: Extreme Edition (DVD)

See Saw?

Advantages: Original Thriller/Horror story line
Disadvantages: Some of the acting is terrible and some of the plot doesn't quite fit well.

...I'm sure you've all seen those billboards that seem to be displaying Saw posters all over the ship. "Dare you see Saw?" they question. Well, I'm always up for a dare, and to be honest there's nothing I like better than a good, scary movie, so I was quite keen to check this movie out. After seeing the trailor for it at the cinema I was sold, and so trotted off with some friends to watch it. First of all, the title will provide you with hours of hilarity as you stand around prodding your friends and asking if they want to "See Saw". See Saw, see-saw...get it? Well, maybe that's just my friends that find that funny, but nevertheless, after much giggling, we finally got our tickets and got our bums in our seats. The film opens with the audience seeing out the eyes of a yet unknown character as he wakes up to find himself in a bath full...

Guru-On-A-Mountain 07.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Saw (DVD)

Sorry I sawed... ahem, watched it!

Advantages: Erm... it's very short! The fight scenes are fairly cool too.
Disadvantages: Utterly horrendous in just about every way!

...Whilst monthly DVD rental packages undoubtedly bring much joy to many film fans, they are also ready and waiting to heap woe on the renter who adds titles to pad out their list, even though they've not heard of them, much less read any reviews on them! So it was that, last night, I went to a friend's house and watched the latest DVD he'd received - Sawed (also known as Devon's Ghost: Legend of the Bloody Boy). STORYLINE The plot is flimsy, to say the least, but the gist is that 10 years ago, in a small town in America, a 7 year old boy went missing. He was presumed killed by his drink and drug addled parents, who became minor celebrities through the media circus surrounding their trial, until they too went missing, along with their high-priced defence lawyer. Thus arose the urban myth of The Bloody Boy, who was reputed to have...

baalzamon 11.08.2006 · Read review
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