SAW is brilliant, very gory yes but I love the intelligient, dar, gritty theme to it and the franchise really did invent an intriguing character, the way the traps were set and the tape/video messages were executed very well, although the series has gotten slightly stale the sequels are still better than most of the other horror rubbish thats churned out. SAW was obviously the best (with the most iconic ending), SAW 2 wasnt as good but liked the house set up, SAW 3 was excellent, very graphic, SAW 4 was weaker, SAW 5 was poor with a lack of plot, while SAW 6 was very good in terms of re-boosing the story with Jill and Hoffman. Still gutted Amanda got killed off though