Waste of good fake blood

Rating: Null/10 (20 March 2006)

What a total waste of good fake blood!
'Saw II' may be mildly scary to an 11 year-old, but only because the movie seems to scream: 'Oh my, ain't I scary!' But even to an average 11 year-old, or in fact anyone who has watched an episode of 'The A-team' without having to take cover behind mama's armchair, this movie is indeed as dull as, as another critic already remarked, 'watching a plant grow'. Also, the acting is terrible. The old man with the yellow face doesn't even start to try to act like the terrible bastard he's supposed to portray. He just sits around saying things in a gritty voice. Given a choice between the two of them, Uncle Fester is definitely the more horrifying. The people who are waiting to get snuffed one-by one aren't any more interesting or sympathetic than so many wooden logs waiting to be thrown on a campfire. Nobody could care less what will happen to this boring bunch of stupid losers. The biggest mistake of this movie might be, that it doesn't fulfill its promise to be really gory, bloody or awful. A setting stolen from "Se7en", a mysterious, handicapped but naughty, gentleman stolen from "Hannibal", the "Who'll be next" - issue stolen from something as amusing as "Scream" (but of course of much earlier origin)... A terribly clumsy and bad movie like this could have compensated with containing some really blood-churning, horrifying scenes, cheap as that may sound, but no such thing... No, no... Failed; cult-status not reached. Just not worth your ticket or rental fee. A heap of cheap, unexciting crap. No stars for this thing which should have never happened.