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Contains strong, bloody violence
"Oh yes, there will be blood!" guarantees Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), the sadistic serial killer at the heart of Saw II. And first-time director Darren Lynn Bousman delivers on his villain's promise with a series of gruesome set-pieces that will have some viewers regurgitating their popcorn. This macabre follow-up to 2004's low-budget horror smash can't rival its predecessor's fiendish ingenuity. But it makes up for it with a deliciously devious plot and enough gory shocks for a dozen Halloweens.
When a dead body is found with a puzzle-piece scar seared into his flesh, all the evidence points to a certain game-playing psycho. Once the Feds track him down, however, Jigsaw reveals the ace hidden up his sleeve: eight hostages trapped in a booby-trapped house with only two hours to live. It's the ultimate nightmare for detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) - not least because his son is among the captives...
"PALPABLY SINISTER"
Bell's creepy, Lecter-like nutjob - largely unseen in the first film - comes into his own here, giving his scenes with Wahlberg's desperate cop a palpably sinister charge. And though we have little time to get to know his victims before they're shot, sliced and burned to death, the carnage inside his grubby, strip-lighted prison is strikingly and viscerally staged. What's absent is the original's chilling simplicity, most notably in a muddled finale that makes a mockery of much that has gone before. Still, like the nail-encrusted baseball bat that ends up embedded in one character's skull, Saw II is hard to shake off.
Tobin Bell's performance as Jigsaw was loaded with malice and the ending was satisfying
