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C- |
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| Story: |
D+ |
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| Acting: |
B- |
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| Direction: |
C- |
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| Visuals: |
B |
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Falling short of Original
by Yahoo! Movies User (movies profile)
Sep 25, 2007
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236 people found this review helpful
Saw 2 opens with a very interesting concept, but falls dreafully into repetition and unoriginallity shortly thereafter. The film places roughly half a dozen people in a single house and lets them explore various sadistic (and gory) means of killing themselves. Due to the sheer amount of characters though, any attachment to them or history is discarded and we rapidly find ourselves in a sort of slasher flick in which people we don't really know are being executed on screen for two hours. Ideas are purposed (each character has a specific puzzle that will lead them to the antidote) and then lost and never revisited (we see less than half of the riddles). Overall the film lacked the tightness streamlined sense the first had, where every line, every action had a direct payoff in the end. Saw 2 leaves you feeling like the plot was a frayed knot with more dead ends than useful rope. That is not to say that there are not delightful moments. The second half of the plot, an interview between the Jigsaw and the father of one of the boys in the game is quite good, and there are several twists that blindside the audience. These moments shone out of the gloom and cried "If only we had taken the time to give the film a few more rewrites instead of rushing production so we could make money as fast as possible we could have created something truely amazing!" Alas, producers will never learn that a fantasic movie makes more money than a rushed sequel in the long run. Final diagnosis: a good movie to rent, but perhaps not a good one to pay full theatre price for. |
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