There will be blood… Yup, and there is, but even better than that there is a better story, better acting and an altogether better movie than the first. The first Saw movie hit audiences like a shotgun blast, the trailers gave you an idea of what to expect but the initial shock value of the first movie is priceless, priceless enough to help you forget just how bad Cary Elwes’ acting was.
This time around original screenwriter Leigh Whannell and newbie Darren Lynn Bousman, who also is the Saw II director, put their heads together and really turned out a good story of mystery and intrigue all the while gutting a few folks along the way.
Saw II picks up where the original left off. Jigsaw is back with his perverted teaching method of hacking and sawing. He kidnaps the dregs of society hoping to put them back on trac, of course they can only learn if they survive and Saw II sets out to prove survival is not exactly easy.
The game he has chosen to play this time involves locking away a group of unlucky, yet similar, people in a house that is booby-trapped to the hilt with guns behind doors, dirty needles and more violent tools you will only have to wait to see. Just like the first flick this one is filled with twists up until the last minute and I don’t want to give any of that away.
To go too far into the story in my review would be cheating you of the experience, so let me leave you with this. I enjoyed myself with this one, and I also think Saw II will live on much longer than the first film. The acting, while still not spectacular, is light years ahead of what Elwes turned in in the first movie and on top of that the horror is much more gut wrenching. There are scenes that will make you cringe until the last cut is made.
