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Oct 28, 2005
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Volume 33
Issue 43
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Another disturbing visit with 'Jigsaw' doesn't quite carry the chill factor of the first SAW
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| Another disturbing visit with 'Jigsaw' doesn't quite carry the chill factor of the first SAW | |
| By Rajkhet Dirzhud-Rashid
- SGN A&E Writer
SAW, II Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman Starring Donnie Wahlberg, Franky G., Beverly Mitchell, Glenn Plummer, Dina Meyer, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Shawnee Smith and Tobin Bell Opens October 28th The first film made me literally run from the theater where it had earlier screened, leaving a party for the filmmakers. And those images from SAW would haunt me for weeks after, popping up in various nightmares and making me jump every time I was out alone at night. But, a year later, SAW, II, by the same team that brought the first scary film to the screen just doesn't quite carry the same punch. The film starts out with a bang, or more actually, a crunch, as yet another victim is felled by the evil genius killer, 'Jigsaw' (Tobin Bell), setting off a manhunt by veteran detectives Eric Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) and Kerry (Dina Meyer), who recognize the crime scene as one of 'Jigsaw's' games gone wrong. And within days, 'Jigsaw' (Bell), is captured, but after he's captured, things really get interesting, only the film doesn't. Maybe the two twisted geniuses who came up with the original on such a small budget, when given a larger budget and even more talent to work with, got a little lazy, because the film quickly lapses into yet another slasher flick. True, this one does have better plot twists (which I will not reveal here), and cooler ways of killing the group of mostly low-life creeps, but it still isn't up to the first one's panache. That film had a refreshingly wicked sense of humor underneath its horrifying exterior, but this one takes itself so seriously and then uses the whole 'let's get the group working against themselves, so they make the audience glad to see them die' plotline. Scary, hell yes, but new, inventive, like the first one, hardly. Still, for a Halloween thrill (it's being released this weekend, I'm sure to capitalize on the whole Halloween market that's hungry for something scary) do go see it and judge for yourself. |
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