Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Adam (Leigh Whannell) wakes up in a dank room across from Dr Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) & the body of a guy who has blown his own brains out Not a happy place obviously & it gets worse when both men realize that they&ve been chained & pitted against one another by an unseen but apparently omniscient maniac who&s screwing with their psyches as payment for past sins Director James Wan who concocted this grimy distraction with screenwriter Whannell has seen Seven & any number of other arty existential-psycho-cat-&-mouse thrillers so he&s provided Saw with a little flash a little blood & a lot of ways to distract you from the fact that it doesn&t make a whole hell of a lot of sense Wan & Whannell (who&s not the most accomplished actor either) pile on the plot twists which after some initially novel ideas become increasingly juvenile Elwes works hard but looks embarrassed & the estimable Danny Glover suffers as the obsessed detective on the case The denouement will probably surprise you but it won&t get you back the previous 98 minutes --Steve Wiecking