Frustrating

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2006)

There are smarter, better-looking, better-acted, and even gorier horror movies than Saw II. Despite the ingenious design behind the house's traps, everything else about this movie drags it down. The acting was tripe, the cinematography seemed straight out of a music video, and the plot had no energy behind it.
Jigsaw, an elderly cancer patient in a wheelchair, comes off as a third-rate Hannibal Lecter with the sophisticated-sounding voice but with none of the wit and charm. None of the cops are believable as cops, and none of the victims are believable as victims. The ending had a nice twist, only to set up what one hopes to be a much better sequel than this film.
Horror-starved fans may want to check this out. What they should know is that there are better horror films out there that up the ante for the gross-out factor but don't stoop to the intelligence of a middle-schooler.