the real start of Saw

Rating: 7/10 (5 December 2011)

Leigh Whannell was back in business to write part 2. But times did changed due the original Saw. James wan had left the building in came Darren Lynn Bousman who also did a bit of writing. He stayed until part 4. Torture Porn, as the genre was called was the next big thing so they had to focus more on the gore. And they did, Saw II started of immediately with a device killing a victim. Back again was Jigsaw, and here he took the most important part of the story, it stayed that way until the end of the franchise.
The focus of the story was here more on one of the coppers who's child is captured by Jigsaw. On the other hand, we had to go back to the devices made by Jigsaw. And here we had a bit of the feeling like in Cube. Cube was also very original but part 2 failed because you have seen it all before so here we got a bunch of scum being hold captured by Jigsaw. To survive they had to play the game. There is a bit that naturally had to do with the captured ones but it is a bit too focused on them. There's a part that in fact nothing has to do with the story. And the weird thing is that Shawnee Smith was back again as Amanda and was captured again by Jigsaw, it looked so stupid but wait until the last minutes. Again, the writers decided to keep the best for last. The best acting was done by Tobin Bell again followed by Donnie Wahlberg. Dina Meyer wasn't convincing for me as a copper, sadly I have met her and congenial wasn't her middle name.
But they brought in more devices and more blood and even more torturing done on-screen. The most creepy device was simply the syringes being used as device. Saw II was something completely different from part one but it was more a horror than a police story with an unpredictable ending.
End for the horror buffs, again two references towards old school horror, one is a picture hanging on the wall with a kind of pinhead design, the other is when jigsaw is showing the way he answers, the last house on the left...
Gore 3/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 4/5 Story 4/5 Comedy 0/5