I Need more Money

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2006)

I was quite happy when i saw Saw II coming in the theaters here in Germany this early spring as I'm going to call it. I was surprised and quite astonished by Saw 1, the surprise maybe of all genres last year. So there was no question, I had to go see Saw II
Now for your viewing pleasure, and maybe the ongoing life of your monitor or TFT - thing, i shall not tell you the plot.
So, well the basics: (includes just about as much as cinema commercials include) Cop argues with son, who is in the eyes of the cop on the way to being the number one criminal in the city (the ones who have a father that is on the police force might recall that they tend to see the ones who eats their piece of chicken at dinner to be on the road to be a major criminal) well anyway. So they find a body, the cop merely engages in investigation, easy case, finds jigsaw, game is on.
OK so far. But then it gets tricky, having way more characters than Saw 1, and being just for a moment in the brain of Jigsaw, I would it find greatly troubling to keep track of all the lunatics I'm playing with at the same time, while having a couple of guns pointed at my face. And thats the problem of the movie. It's too thin for its many characters, the viewer is not as connected to the characters as he is in Saw 1. Sometimes somebody says: "Let's discuss who we are so we might find a way out." And the answer by another character is:"There is no need for that"
That just about sums up the entire movie. There is no need for it. And when you do your homework during the movie you will find out what is going on so early that you might have a chance to go out while the movie is still on and actually enjoy the rest of the night.