Saw II (2005)

Just perfect...

Great Film overall

Good movie but grossly overrated

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Movie has some really dull moments and its concentrated more on people panicking than on solving new puzzles and that disappointed me a little. At the other hand, it has some advantages to previous one. While in first movie Jigsaw appears just briefly, in second we have a chance to enjoy great performance of Tobin Bell. Twist at the end, that's maybe even better than in prequel, revels to us a puzzle more complex than last year's. Idea on which movie is based is better than one from previous movie, but realization is weaker. Overall, Saw II is somewhat weaker than its prequel, but still within solid eight.8/10

A detective and his team must rescue 8 people trapped in a factory by the twisted serial killer known as Jigsaw. Although the original Saw had flaws of it's own it was enjoyable but Saw II is a whole different story. The film relies more on over the top kills and gore rather than a good story or anything like that, the characters are annoying especially that guy Xavier. Donnie Wahlberg, Tobin Bell and Dina Meyer are good but that's about it, the pacing has also been slowed down in this film because as much as good the original film was this sequel and everything that followed was the exact same thing with over the top kills, police officers that lived in the previous film died in the next one and some lunatic continues the work of Kramer again and again and let's hope that the new film is better than just being that although i doubt it. (0/10)

The second part of the "Saw" franchise, "Saw II" is surprisingly good because of the plot twists and masterful use of non-linear storytelling. "Saw II" gives us a bigger set of victims, 7 stuck in a building filled with deadly traps and puzzles, plus 1 more "victim": a cop (played by Donnie Wahlberg) who happens to be the father of one of the 7 victims. Caught in serial killer Jigsaw's (played by Tobin Bell) twisted plot, Wahlberg must do as Bell commands in order to have a chance at seeing his son alive again. But can Wahlberg, a notoriously brutal cop, follow Bell's rules and keep his cool long enough to ensure his son's safe return? My most memorable, movie moment of "Saw II" is the scene when Bell's timer for his "game" counts down to zero, revealing a shocking secret, and proving that all "players" must follow his rules.I am very impressed with "Saw II" as it goes above and beyond the typical "torture porn flick." But it does suffer from several shenanigans such as: police procedures in raiding Bell's hideout; Bell allowed to stay in his hideout because of what cops see on video monitors, giving the bad guy the advantage of being in his home turf; and a lowly Detective with anger management issues is put in charge, further jeopardizing the entire case and potential victims with his numerous bad judgments and decisions. Still, the good more than outweighs the bad, and "Saw II" is a superior example of this genre.Mannysmemorablemoviemoments

Attempting to track down the Jigsaw killer, a detective and his team's raid on a hideout reveals his son's involvement in a deadly game with other victims inside a house filled with traps and must rescue him before succumbing to the traps.This here ended up being quite the overall bland effort here. As with the rest of the franchise, the biggest problem here is with the feeling of his own brand of punishment being too far self-centered that there's little to gleam from the ethics and morality found here which tends to come away rather wholeheartedly. This one spends so much time trying to pontificate over doling out a sense of righteousness to his actions that there's just nothing that can be taken from who he's specifically targeting with this one seemingly bent on trying to bring about the fact that what's happening is of a great good to the individual. The gathered group is all supposedly tied together with the detective yet nothing here is really all that positive about why they're being targeted. Once it's discovered what the connection is, that makes his attempt at teaching them lessons seem even more foolhardy and suspect here with a simply lame reasoning to suspect that he's truly in trouble. Not only that, it's dropped way too late into the film anyway which makes this seem all the more confusing and pointless which renders this one irritatingly non-essential about that twist. Coupled with a series of utterly baffling character decisions that render this one rather non-descript and a bland first half that tends to leave all the kills here in the second half, there's a lot of flaws and problems here. While these here all hold this one down, there's very little here that's worthwhile. All of that positive force here comes from the traps on display, which are quite brutal in their execution if completely lacking in their connection to the types of traps usually featured in the series. There's some rather cruel and brutal traps here, from the crawl through the incinerator or the trap-door pit full of needles that's quite squirm-inducing. The other fine action in the last-half here as everyone turns on each other to get out of the house which gets interesting with some decent brawling and stalking that results in some enjoyable gore, but otherwise the flaws here are more impactful overall.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence and children-in- jeopardy.