Category: Crime
All Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Release Year: 2005
Country: USA
Runtime: 93
Rating: 7.4 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Leigh Whannell - (written by) and
Darren Lynn Bousman - (written by)

Produced by: Peter Block - executive producer
Mark Burg - producer
Jason Constantine - executive producer
Greg Copeland - co-producer
Daniel J. Heffner - co-producer (as Daniel Jason Heffner)
Gregg Hoffman - producer
Oren Koules - producer
Stacey Testro - executive producer
James Wan - executive producer
Leigh Whannell - executive producer

Cast: Tobin Bell - Jigsaw / John
Shawnee Smith - Amanda
Donnie Wahlberg - Eric Matthews
Erik Knudsen - Daniel Matthews
Franky G - Xavier
Glenn Plummer - Jonas
Emmanuelle Vaugier - Addison
Beverley Mitchell - Laura
Tim Burd - Obi (as Timothy Burd)
Dina Meyer - Kerry
Lyriq Bent - Rigg

Music: Charlie Clouser
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Plot Outline: Jigsaw locks a few unlucky people in a booby trapped shelter and they must find a way out before they inhale too much of a lethal nerve gas and die. But they must watch out, for the traps Jigsaw has set in the shelter lead to death also.
Plot: When detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to a crime scene of a victim of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), he finds a lead to the place where he is hidden. Once there, he realizes that Jigsaw trapped his son Daniel Matthews (Erik Knudsen) with three women and four men in a shelter, and they are inhaling a lethal nerve gas. If they do not use an antidote within two hours, they will die. Eric follows with increasing desperation the death of each member of the group in monitors, while trying to convince Jigsaw to release his son.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
James Bond will return.

Goofs: We know about 14 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When Matthews friend, Michael, is watching the puppet explain his situation on TV at the beginning of the movie, the channel indicator on the television keeps changing from displaying channel 3 in one shot to being covered up with duct tape in the next.

Trivia: There are 30 entries in the trivia list - like these:

• Was shot in 25 days.
• The advertising posters for the film had to be recalled on orders from the MPAA because the two severed fingers forming the “II” in the posters did not meet guidelines for film advertising. The new poster makes it more obscure. Also, posters had listed the film as being rated R when at the time the film still hadnt gone before the MPAA for a rating.
• This film originally came from a script by the director Darren Lynn Bousman which was called “The Desperate”. After trying for years to get it made but being told repeatedly that it was too violent, finally a company wanted to do it because they suspected “Saw” which was becoming a hit at Sundance might blow out big and they wanted to capitalize on its success. Some producers even described Bousmans script as “Too Saw-ish”. Just before he was about to close a deal to make the movie, Saw (2004) opened huge at the box-office and the next day he received a call, and the producers asked if he could change it around to “Saw 2″. Leigh Whannel (who wrote the first “Saw”) was then brought on a little later to help Bousman with creating his original idea into a proper sequel to “Saw”.