Good but not as good as the first!

Rating: 8/10 (9 July 2007)

Good, but it just wasn't as good as the original.
Donnie Whalberg really delivers the goods. He's believable as a cop, as a dad and as a man bent on vengeance. Kudos all around! The guy can act. It didn't seem to end too well for him. They didn't really fully explain that, they didn't really answer that in Saw III either. They just sort of hinted at a couple scenarios.
There is another big unanswered question, what happened to Dr. Gordon? In the first one, it certainly did look very bleak for him. I'll be the first to admit, I thought for certain he was toast. That said, I watched this movie very carefully and I never saw a body. Whether his body would be "recognizable" as him I don't know? But where was he? They were most certainly in the correct building and even in the very room where he took his own leg off. What happened to him? There's definitely two very logical situations but neither of them is played out in this one nor in Saw IV. Hopefully we'll find out in Saw III. Also, I really hope to see Donnie Wahlberg reprise his roll in Saw IV. He was a very valuable asset to the series.