Very disappointing and extremely flawed

Rating: 5/10 (13 January 2006)

I completely agree with Plumberduck! I actually liked the first Saw film, but this one was pretty much rubbish. In the first one we get all these great and horrifying puzzles that the victim needs to solve to avoid dying, in this one we get them too, but like plumberduck says, they are not really solved at all. It was not nearly as scary as the first one, maybe because now we've seen it before, though I was a bit disgusted, but mostly with the behavior of some of the characters and some of the acting as well. I am sorry, but I simply cannot take Lucy from 7th Heaven seriously in a role like this. And yes, the yelling overshadows the puzzle solving completely. Jigsaw has managed to capture some pretty dumb people this time. I did enjoy the Jigsaw character, but I'm getting a little sick of his "I don't kill people, they kill themselves" routine. No they don't. They do NOT kill themselves, they are just unable to save themselves. And as far as I remember, in the first one, the last guy didn't really have a fair chance of saving himself, so Jigsaw definitely killed him. I mean, does this guy think what he does isn't illegal, simply because he doesn't directly shoot the victims? He captures them and place them in different sort of devices that will eventually kill them. Now come on! I do, however, think the whole Saw plot idea is pretty good, just too bad they mess it up like that. With a better writer and a couple of better actors, this movie could have kicked ass. But it doesn't. And now they're doing a 3rd? Jesus Christ. I'll give it 5 for nice traps.