You'll love it or hate it

Rating: 7/10 (29 October 2005)

There is two ways this film could go. Firstly it could be a stunner completely out do the first film in every way, or it could go the way of most horror type sequels, which is straight in the bin. The film starts off with yet another enclosed room and a single guy that has to try and get out before his life ends. This then leads a police officer onto the seen who for some reason the 'jigsaw killer' has an agenda. This leads to a game being played with the officer and a group of people trapped in a house filling with deadly nerve gas, one of which is his son and one of the others we have seen before. if you don't know who that is i wont say. Its not by the way any of the guys that were trapped in the last one, you do find out what happened to them. This i'm a little disappointed about, I preffered not knowing, i felt it more fun to make up your own mind on it.
The film in the most part is fairly average and was starting to head the way of most horror sequels until we hit the twist. Ahh the twist yes this for me turned an average film into a good film, yes it happens with about 5 minutes of the film left but it is strong enough to lift the film to the score i have given it. In my view the twist was better than the one in the last film and leaves it open for yet another sequel.
Better than the first film? Probably not, but then that was an original film, whereas with this we know what it is all about. Still it is worth a watch and does enough that we can probably expect saw to be a Halloween regular.