Stupid Victim Tricks...where's Letterman when you need him?

Rating: 6/10 (10 November 2005)

While SmartTALX was a tad harsh in his assessment, it's still valid. But more importantly it is the whispered fragments of dialog that "John" or "Jigsaw" gives that do add some feature redeeming quality to this film. His flashbacks to the knowledge of his impending death, and the savor it adds to life, and the instinct of survival that he notes is lost amongst the common man. All of these fragments DO make a cohesive whole. I can say, without spoiling anything, that there is an opportunity for a "Saw 3". If some of the plot work tightens up, as SmartTALX suggest, with some fleshing out of this 'motivation' that John has this franchise will make the 3rd installment the best. It's well worth watching, for the essence of survival it hints at, not for the mechanistic methods of DEATH Jigsaw engineers for the violent prurience of the baser viewer.