As good of a sequel as the original,but is a totally different movie.

Rating: 8/10 (13 November 2005)

Saw 2 though not done completely by the first 2 creators of the original Saw is as good as the 1st film. You get the same aspect of a game being played as the characters wake up after being drugged or beaten over the head, to wake up in a house they do not know, & find out they are locked in breathing a very toxic nerve gas that was planted by the serial-killer Jigsaw. Throughout the movie I kept thinking, if Jigsaw is so cancer-stricken how in the hell did he,if he's so sick booby-trap the house, lock up the place as you see in this film,he's breathing through an oxygen-tank & is barely able to walk. The answer you find out at the end of this film & it is a shocker! Very cool plot twists just like the first film. More gorier (which I really appreciated!) & just as suspenseful.Donnie Wahlberg,Dina Meyer,Shawnee Smith & Tobin Bell did awesome jobs throughout. And, the scene where Frankie G's character cuts off the back of his own neck to be able to read his number to open the safe which has his number of the combination on it, was most brutal & will have you squirming in your seat most definitely. Also,the guy who plays Obi, I was surprised to see wasn't Steve Railsback, as my god he's a dead ringer. And,one other question I have is the scene where Shawnee Smith's character Amanda & the cop's kid Daniel are running through the underground portion of the house & they come upon a door where upon opening it, they find the abandoned bathroom that Cary Elwes & Leigh Wannell's character were in, in the 1st film. So,how come if they were in there, you see Leigh Wannell's corpse decaying on the bathroom floor still connected to the pipe by the chain, but you also see another body lying on the floor decaying as well & what i want to know is, was that Cary Elwes character Dr Lawrence Gordon, who in the first film crawls out of the bathroom when the door's is opened by the man who kidnapped his family,and after he's killed,larry goes to go get help,even though he had to Saw off his own foot & was bleeding to death? Or, did they forget that Jigsaw was the guy laying in the middle of the floor, & that he got up after Larry left,when it was just him & Leigh Wannells character in the room,closed the door & Said Game Over?Or,did he find Dr Gordon & drag his\m back in the room, & let him bleed to death? Never was answered in Saw 2. Very cool way to end this film & leave it open for a Saw 3 which they are already promising us in Halloween of 06. Also,if you love this film,check out the new comic series from IDW Publushing, that continues on the Jigsaw man quest for making us ingrates appreciate are lives much much more. Very cool film. I was a little worried when I initially fount out it wasn't the original creators writing it but this writer was just as good, as initially this was supposed to be a different film altogether, that had nothing to do with the Saw franchise whatsoever, & Leigh Wannell came in & helped the guy re-write it so it would fit the Saw storyline.Very cool if you ask me. **** out of *****