Saw 2, painful to watch

Rating: 5/10 (29 November 2005)

How did this film manage to reach a vote over 7 on here? Let alone receive a score that closely matches the original film? Have our desires and expectations of what a film should contain sharply plummeted since the original Saw? Who knows, and quite frankly, I don't care. This film had no socially redeeming value what so ever.
The cop planted evidence to help get convictions of the people locked in the house, and thats the reason Jigsaw targeted him. Crap! They were all self confessed junkies and crims etc ANYWAY so what difference does it make? What if the kid died, then Jigsaw becomes the very thing he is trying to rid the world of, or teach! So obviously Shawnee was in there to make sure no harm came to the kid. Think it's pretty obvious that she almost got killed so what would have happened if she had have died? The kid would have died too, which means that even if the cop 'played by the rules' the risk is there that the kid still would have died which means that Jigsaw would have failed his own game, and what? He has to then push a key behind his eye so he can get himself out of the deathmask he has managed to get himself in to? I'm sorry, but if you make a film with rules, everyone has to play by them, otherwise the rules (like this film) become completely redundant.
Lastly, the film cheated, it didn't just hide the 'twist', it specifically delivered the VIEWER information which made it impossible for the twist to become apparent or guessable. When Shawnee first wakes up, she grabs the back of her head like she's in the deathmask again (thats how I knew who she was), like it's a memory. Considering none of the people in the room with her would have a clue about who she was, and she already knows that she's OK, for what reason does she grab the back of her head? To show us that she's as much a victim as all the others in there.... But she wasn't was she? No.
The film cheated and therefore becomes nothing more than fodder to sit alongside other ridiculous films like CABIN FEVER.
I may not get these 90 minutes of my life back, but you know, I don't care, cause I'm going to spend a lot longer trashing this film, as it should be trashed.
Pathetic effort right across the board. The ONLY thing i liked about this film...: Oh yes, there will be blood.