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Saw II (2005)

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Reviews Counted:113

Fresh:40

Rotten:73

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for grisly violence and gore, terror, language and drug content

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Theatrical Release:Oct 28, 2005 Wide

Box Office: $87,025,093

Synopsis: In SAW, a huge horror hit in 2004, a masked man called Jigsaw orchestrated the kidnapping of two people, chained them in a disgusting bathroom in an abandoned warehouse, and played vicious, brutal... In SAW, a huge horror hit in 2004, a masked man called Jigsaw orchestrated the kidnapping of two people, chained them in a disgusting bathroom in an abandoned warehouse, and played vicious, brutal mind games with them that potentially could lead to their freedom. Jigsaw is back for more gory fun in SAW II, but this time he comes out from behind the mask to terrorize a troubled cop face-to-face. Tobin Bell reprises his brief role as Jigsaw in the first film with a major starring turn in the sequel. Dying of cancer, Jigsaw lets himself get caught, only to show Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) that his son, Daniel (Erik Knudsen), has been taken hostage with seven other people, all of whom have been placed in a house of horrors with only the slimmest chance of escaping with their lives. Jigsaw promises Matthews that Daniel will live only if the cop follows the rules of the game, but time is running out, as the captives' bodies have been poisoned with a toxin that will soon destroy them. Meanwhile, in the dank, mysterious, booby-trapped house, the ever-more-desperate group of people (including Shawnee Smith, who is back as Amanda, the lone survivor of SAW) furiously try to find their connection to each other and a way out, but blood and violence lie in their path. Like its predecessor, SAW II is a frightening thriller filled with plenty of tricks and treats to satisfy even the most jaded horror fan. [More]

Starring: Tony Nappo, Shawnee Smith, Franky G, Beverley Mitchell

Starring: Tony Nappo, Shawnee Smith, Franky G, Beverley Mitchell, Tim Burd, Glenn Plummer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Erik Knudsen, Tobin Bell, Lyriq Bent, Donnie Wahlberg, Dina Meyer

Director: Darren Lynn Bausman

Director: Darren Lynn Bausman
Screenwriter: Darren Lynn Bausman, Leigh Whannell
Producer: Gregg Hoffman, Mark Burg
Composer: Charlie Clouser
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Saw II has teeth, and this house-of-horrors franchise has legs, though they're manacled to the radiator.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
10/28/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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At the very least, with Saw II, you get what you pay for.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
10/28/05
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

The serpentine plot is logical; the acting is passable and the film creates a palpable atmosphere of paranoia and tension.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
10/28/05
Colin Covert
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune

A greater number of humans in peril doesn’t mean better terror in Saw II. It just means more hammy acting, smashing, yelling, begging, burning, cutting and stabbing.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
10/28/05
Brian McTavish
Brian McTavish
Kansas City Star

If you can sit through Saw II without gagging, gasping or covering your eyes, you are made of stern stuff indeed. And you should seek psychiatric help, since you might be a closet sociopath.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment 1 Comment
10/28/05
Steve Tilley
Steve Tilley
Jam! Movies

Even hard-core horror can go too far. Saw II is as punishing as it gets. It's effective, all right, but to what end? Certainly not entertainment.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
10/28/05
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle
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I saw Saw, I saw Saw II, and I have lived to tell about it. Aren't you glad?

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
10/28/05
Rick Groen
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail

Factor in the unintentionally funny dialogue, the hey-look-over-there attempts at making you jump, and you'll see that the real trap here is the price of the ticket.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
10/28/05
E! Online

Saw II lacks quite a bit of the cutting edge that made the original such a guilty, grisly pleasure last year.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
10/28/05
Tom Long
Tom Long
Detroit News

The makers of Saw II have taken great pains to hide the twist ending to the film. I'd love to reveal it out of spite, only because it hints that I'll be sitting through another Saw sequel next year.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
10/28/05
John Monaghan
John Monaghan
Detroit Free Press

If anything, this blood-spattered, stomach-churning sequel to last year's serial-killer thriller is even more moronic, more overplotted and more convoluted.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/28/05
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Saw II goes to great lengths to be smart and not just viscerally but intellectually provocative. An admirable ambition, but it just makes the movie even more silly when it fails so utterly in the effort.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
10/28/05
Tom Maurstad
Tom Maurstad
Dallas Morning News

For the tough-as-Leatherface horror crowd who want to be bruised and battered by their entertainment, Saw II represents a cut above in the genre.

Full Review Source: Contra Costa Times | comment Comment
10/28/05
Randy Myers
Randy Myers
Contra Costa Times

No point in labeling this a horror film. This is a sadism film, and while all good and great horror films know what sadism tastes like, a sadism film settles for nothing of lasting, imaginative horror.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
10/28/05
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune
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Saw II is not for the faint of heart. It's for the foolish of wallet.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
10/28/05
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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Director Darren Lynn Bousman... creates wincing images of bloodshed, cut rapidly to the point of nausea, to cover how idiotic this luridly thrill-free thriller really is.

Full Review Source: Salt Lake Tribune | comment Comment
10/28/05
Sean Means
Sean Means
Salt Lake Tribune

Coupled with the distancing cop/killer face-off, the erratic pace may cause viewers to tune out long before a twisty ending that manages to be satisfying, if not surprising.

Full Review Source: Zap2it.com | comment Comment
10/28/05
Dan Fienberg
Dan Fienberg
Zap2it.com

Eventually ... the movie benefits from the courageousness of some atypical story choices, and rallies to a passingly respectable if still extremely middling standing.

Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | comment Comment
10/28/05
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine

With 'Saw II,' to misquote Sherlock Holmes, the game's a-flat...Despite the makers' almost desperate efforts to shock and surprise, proves a curiously dull blade.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
10/28/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Unfortunately, or fortunately if you’re hoping Lion’s Gate Films takes a bath for pretending that sadistic pornography is fun fare for Halloween, the movie [is] pretty dull.

Full Review Source: Worcester Telegram & Gazette | comment Comment
10/28/05
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
 
 
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