Bad Horror Movies Are Like Blunt Instruments To The Head

Rating: 2/10 (6 November 2005)

For quite a while I'd wondered what it would be like to watch a Disturbed music video for a little over and hour and a half and not hear the actual band play until the end. This most black hearted of wishes was granted to me by the folks who brought Saw II to the masses.
I know that a lot of confusion in a film is often rewarded with the saying that it "has a twist". The last Saw movie had a "twist". This movie basically held back any relevant information except for the most obvious of character traits and motivations, and then completely inundated the viewer with about forty minutes worth of buildup in a two minute long montage, only justifying this deception with a pun that you've already winced at if you know what I'm talking about. That's not a "twist". That's a gimmick. Also known as complete and utter idiocy.
Saw II may cause hemorrhage in the frontal lobe. Just a warning to those who treasure their lobes up in the front.