You can't be serious

Rating: 5/10 (29 January 2007)

While technically well made and very good in terms of special effects, the Saw series is that one unforgivable in movies; it's boring. Someone else gets tortured, someone else gets murdered, someone else gets in a situation where they have to mutilate themselves or someone else to get loose. Same set up, variations on traps.
Over and over, without any reason for the viewer to care. Particularly in Saw II, there's no on to care about. The kid? He's a cardboard cutout with no character development, a cliché kid. The rest? Who cares what happens to them? I don't have to have a "hero," per se, an anti-hero will do fine, just someone to care about. Not my cup o' tea.