Devoid of emotion and scary for the wrong reasons.

Rating: 3/10 (5 January 2006)

Although the Saw films have some rather nifty ideas, you cant help but feel the same ideas could be pulled from a 12 year old boy sitting above the ants nest with his magnifying glass. I felt, watching this movie, the presence of those same twisted little boys now grown up now inside their brand new executive suits and looking for a way to prize money out of the new generation of twisted little boys. Saw is, to horror, what pop-stars is to pop music. Films such as Michael Hanekes 'Funny Games' make you feel implicated and ill embarrassed with yourself for the events you are witnessing. I think the director might hope he has duped his audience that this is also his intention. I do not believe it though, although this is a scary film, the object of my fear is the people who made it and starred in it. Saw 2 will make a lot of money and many of the audience will be happy, perhaps I am too sensitive a soul but for me, I feel a sense of emptiness, what has society come to when this is entertainment. I have felt this many times before with a lot of horror films better or worse. This time I feel the reason behind this gray feeling I have, the object of my fears, lie in the filmmakers and, perhaps I am just to sensitive a soul, but there comes a time for me when horror films cross the line.