Predictable, but also not?!?

Rating: 9/10 (28 October 2005)

I just saw this film and I must say "woah"! I cringed, squinted, and said "ohh ugh" more than I did watching the first. The sad thing is that I had the entire ending predicted a week before the movie came out. It is really quite like a game, if you think about it. All I did was try to figure out just why the character Amanda would return and why would she be forced to "play" again?!? Think about it. A little less than halfway through it I also pretty much figured out the common bond between the captives and where to find the combination. But I would have never thought the film would have ended where it did and even though I new the circumstances of why it all happened, it tied everything together very cleverly. All I am saying is that if you are one who can easily predict the outcome of films, even ones so cleverly written as the "Saw" films, then maybe pay a matinÃ©e admission to see it. BUT DO Definitely SEE THIS FILM! I think it is better and more clever than the first. It is more gruesome than the first, but the brutality is clever! Let's shoot for a hat trick!