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Saw II
2005
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 33m
When detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is called to a crime scene of a victim of Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), he finds a lead to the place where he is hidden. Once there, he realizes that Jigsaw trapped his son Daniel Matthews (Erik Knudsen) with three women and four men in a shelter, and they are inhaling a lethal nerve gas. If they do not use an antidote within two hours, they will die. Eric follows with increasing desperation the death of each member of the group in monitors, while trying to convince Jigsaw to release his son. (imdb)
Saw II
2005
Suspense/Thriller, Horror
1h 33m
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Rated 17 Apr 2012
58
35th
Syringes. That's all I remember and all I have to. If a movie is made with the sole purpose to make you squirm and it delivers, is it a good movie? This movie stands to prove that no, it isn't.
Rated 17 Apr 2012
Rated 26 Jul 2017
60
34th
Diet Whalberg overcome with emotion.
Rated 26 Jul 2017
Rated 14 Oct 2020
55
29th
The needle pit scene is the hardest I have cringed in a theatre. And, y'know what? 15 years later I cringed again.
Rated 14 Oct 2020
Rated 01 Nov 2012
60
31st
I was always a fan of the scenes between Tobin Bell and Donnie Wahlberg in this movie, as both are underrated actors. Bell in particular is very impressive as he brings a lot of menace to the Jigsaw character. Unofrtunately, everything else in this movie just really doesn't work. It lacks the creativity of the first one, and the violence feels tacked on and uneccesary. A disappointing sequel, and a good clue to the crap that was to come.
Rated 01 Nov 2012
Rated 02 Mar 2011
0
1st
This whole genre needs to be legislated out of existence. I can't see any other way to make it stop.
Rated 02 Mar 2011
Rated 16 Mar 2010
25
18th
Probably the best comedy in a ver...wait, this wasn't meant to be funny? Oh. Oh my.
Rated 16 Mar 2010
Rated 20 Jul 2007
12
1st
Manages to be even worst than the first one. I'm not watching any more.
Rated 20 Jul 2007
Rated 19 Mar 2007
12
9th
Plenty of brutality and gore with absolutely nothing else to back it up. It's much more uninspired and makes no other improvements from the first film while also lacking the inspired idea of the original that made it half decent. The plotline remains just about adequate, but the film relies substancially on the success of its predecessor.
Rated 19 Mar 2007
Rated 03 Mar 2007
90
90th
Truly a prefect sequel to it's original it incorporates the formula that made the first one so well liked into an all new scenerio, display that the series was finally realizing itself and what it was trying to accomplish.
Rated 03 Mar 2007
Rated 12 Aug 2024
4
23rd
I’ll use a strange word in regards to a brutal movie franchise, but the first Saw worked because it was subtle. You had no idea what was going on, you didn’t know violence was the expected outcome, and the plot twists were very well hidden. The team behind the sequel thought Saw was solely about traps and gore, and I guess the franchise’s longevity proved them right. But it’s a very average movie with too much gratuitous shock value, which could maybe have been good with a more subtle script.
Rated 12 Aug 2024
Rated 24 Oct 2023
64
62nd
Yeah I'm doing it. I think the fact everybody is so bad at the puzzles is funny. I guess it sorts of take away from the traps if people don't need those to end up dead though, but the second of a series can do whatever it wants, it didn't have the expectations of being only about traps back then
Rated 24 Oct 2023
Rated 08 Oct 2023
70
61st
After marathoning the seven original Saw movies, I can say that this one was my favorite (even over the original): the expanded presence of Tobin Bell's jigsaw makes for one hell of a charismatic mastermind villain, it has the most natural and compelling blending of the police investigation with the death game, it has one of the best twists, and the death game itself is satisfyingly horrific without becoming overly exploitative.
Rated 08 Oct 2023
Rated 25 Dec 2022
100
63rd
love it
Rated 25 Dec 2022
Rated 21 Dec 2022
75
49th
22.12.2022 Kartal, İstanbul.
Rated 21 Dec 2022
Rated 22 Oct 2022
50
13th
None of what happens really makes much sense when you think about it. The key character wasn't being "tested" in any sense. It was an elaborate set up ... so elaborate that it could have failed in dozens and dozens of ways, stranding the people who set it up holding their dicks and looking like fools. Nothing with the 8 people trapped in a room was necessary. It all just risked the life of the main conspirator. This is all noise and mild gore with a hollow center.
Rated 22 Oct 2022
Rated 13 Apr 2022
71
35th
Opinión personal: 7.5 Actores: 7.5 Guión: 7 Planos/técnicas: 6 BSO: 6.5 Otros:7.5 Iluminación:- FX:6 Director:6 Humor:- Vestuario:8 Metraje: 9 Total: 71
Rated 13 Apr 2022
Rated 05 Aug 2021
56
53rd
I thought I was about to SAW something gorier and better than its predecessor, but it falls flat 2 the not-so-bloody ground.
Rated 05 Aug 2021
Rated 23 Jun 2021
40
13th
Too early to introduce an apprentice - as we get some backstory on how Jigsaw was 'born' - but at least Amanda makes the case for an interesting character (syringe pool is cool). It works mostly as an expanded version of the first - self-contained space with traps, now 8 participants, lot of exposition left for last - and it definitely feels as sadistic as moralistic -- Jigsaw doesn't 'kill', just punishes people who hate/waste life (again, Seven-style). At least a dirty cop is on the line.
Rated 23 Jun 2021
Rated 24 May 2021
67
46th
I actually liked this one more than the first. Acting was a lot better, plot twist was fun. I'm still not a fan of gore but, y'know. It's interesting.
Rated 24 May 2021
Rated 10 May 2021
95
58th
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Rated 10 May 2021
Rated 26 Jan 2021
27
23rd
#20-4#, exp3, rw2, popcorn, 'prequel'.
Rated 26 Jan 2021
Rated 04 Jan 2021
95
63rd
Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) investigates a bloody murder and feels that Jigsaw, the killer who left a trail of bodies and body parts, is active again. He is quickly proved right. This time Jigsaw has not locked up two people, but as many as eight people who do not know each other and do not know their mutual connection. They will only survive if they use their wits. This also applies to Matthews, for whom time is running out.
Rated 04 Jan 2021
Rated 19 Oct 2020
22
4th
Holy fuck how is this so boring!?
Rated 19 Oct 2020
Rated 23 Apr 2020
66
84th
Rated 05 Apr 2020
65
36th
Having never actually seen this one(for some reason I skipped this one)when the twist hit I was genuinely surprised. The needle pit scene is arguably one of the most unnerving scene I've ever seen. There's a certain bleakness to the puzzle that Amanda creates where multiple people are pawns in a game(lol) to fuck over one man as more of a revenge fantasy than a lesson teaching. I dunno I'm thinking too much about Saw 2
Rated 05 Apr 2020
Rated 05 Apr 2020
3
24th
Same kind of grimy aesthetic from the first one, but a few less numetal music video techniques. Obviously it's stupid and it's morals are completely misguided, but the story still works and the twists genuinely work.
Rated 05 Apr 2020
Rated 04 Jul 2019
7
76th
Definitely lacks the unique and disturbing flare of the first, but I do like it more than some people. You can tell Donnie Wahlberg is having fun with this and he does make most of his scenes a little more entertaining. The "characters" or more so bodies used at the expense of the game are fine, and two of them are semi decent, but overall you still don't really care. The traps and gore are still interesting, and do give the movie a bump. It's definitely a solid sequel.
Rated 04 Jul 2019
Rated 11 Nov 2018
21
15th
The original was no masterpiece by any stretch but this sequel takes any sort of nuance or pretext about being an actual story and just throws it out the window. The original had it's moments of gore and visceral-horror but those were set-up well and not the focus of the film. This is a flimsy plot that is little more than a sequence of excuses to have more gore and less character-work.
Rated 11 Nov 2018
Rated 28 Apr 2018
88
67th
A-
Rated 28 Apr 2018
Rated 03 Jan 2018
46
16th
Increased brutality with a decreased level of quality. Thankfully the film is save from being a total write off with a intimidating performance from Tobin Bell.
Rated 03 Jan 2018
Rated 31 Oct 2017
55
26th
Perhaps both the most unnecessary and the most inevitable sequel of all time, "Saw II" manages to lose a great deal of what made its already severely flawed originator so immediately iconic, adding a police procedural bent to what should be a shapeless narrative of a killer justifying his self-actualised morals while inflicting his unique brand of punishment, and quadrupling the number of protagonists to the point of rendering them all lifeless, hollow, and dull. A sign of things to come.
Rated 31 Oct 2017
Rated 27 Oct 2017
68
14th
The scenes with the survivors were all very annoying. For a movie that tries to separate from cliche bullshit so much, it manages to make every character incredibly cliche. Not to mention how little thought was put into the actual game and traps. Feels like they spent months writing the ending and how they could work it out and said fuck it to everything else.
Rated 27 Oct 2017
Rated 23 Aug 2017
50
29th
The premise of Saw II is rather interesting and actually kept me entertained for the most part. Though I've put off watching the franchise because of how bad I know it gets, Saw II survives the cut on pure interest factor. Yeah, the acting sucks and the editing is mind numbingly edgy, but I still kinda liked it.
Rated 23 Aug 2017
Rated 19 May 2017
72
82nd
Twisted flick here with great traps and keeps you wondering what will happen next.
Rated 19 May 2017
Rated 14 Aug 2015
92
98th
Very intense atmosphere
Rated 14 Aug 2015
Rated 23 May 2015
82
11th
Saw II fails on many levels, especially the acting. Where all the actors gave great performances in the first movie, in this one, none of the victims other than Shawnee Smith gave anything close to a good performance. Cops' story was good but the traps weren't nearly as interesting. A good B- movie.
Rated 23 May 2015
Rated 13 May 2015
65
20th
This is my favorite of the Saw franchise, but that doesn't mean it's the best.
Rated 13 May 2015
Rated 15 Apr 2015
33
5th
Have you ever wanted to see the movie Cube, but shittier? No? Ok, good thing we only spent 5 million dollars on this, 2 of those millions going towards hot dogs for Donnie Wahlberg.
Rated 15 Apr 2015
Rated 15 Jan 2015
37
12th
To be fair, that latino guy hit the survival instincts KPI the cancer patient referred to. But, yeaaa..
Rated 15 Jan 2015
Rated 11 Dec 2014
36
22nd
loses some of the intensity and feeling of isolation from the first movie when there are more victims together. Has more in common with movies like Cube and The Collection. I actually liked the twists, but it follows the rule of sequels diminishing in quality for each iteration.
Rated 11 Dec 2014
Rated 03 Dec 2014
60
20th
(2nd viewing)
Rated 03 Dec 2014
Rated 13 Nov 2014
56
18th
Kind of manages to get away with it with some nasty gimmicky set pieces but really this should have been it.
Rated 13 Nov 2014
Rated 30 Sep 2014
75
52nd
A solid follow up to a movie that could've easily been self contained.
Rated 30 Sep 2014
Rated 11 Aug 2014
70
16th
By and large, Saw II is pure gorefest entertainment. There is more ferocious cruelty at a higher frequency than its ancestor, but less of a chill by the end.
Rated 11 Aug 2014
Rated 21 Jan 2014
49
55th
A disappointment given how great Saw I was. The electrifying dynamic of the two was replaced by a gang which is never the same. Nice twists at the end though.
Rated 21 Jan 2014
Rated 23 Dec 2013
36
14th
Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise.
Rated 23 Dec 2013
Rated 10 Dec 2013
25
19th
If there was something redeeming about this film then I must have missed it.
Rated 10 Dec 2013
Rated 02 Nov 2013
63
51st
Slightly upped from 60 to 63 on an August 2022 rewatch. It's pretty bad in a lot of ways--the hilariously unnecessary recap at the end standing out as the best/most endearing example--but it remains strong popcorn flick material.
Rated 02 Nov 2013
Rated 04 Oct 2013
70
77th
Saw II might not be the breath of fresh air that Saw was, but it does enough differently from the first installment, as well as being extremely enjoyable while it plays. The two separate storylines work in tandem with one another to become something very effective, the puzzles and traps are just as creative as they were in the previous film, and the further exploration of its villain made the character more interesting. I recommend it to those who don't get turned away from squeamish material.
Rated 04 Oct 2013
Rated 10 Jul 2013
68
39th
With a faster pace, more gore, bigger gambits and deranged mind games, Saw II improves on the torture of its predecessor, pitting not only man against death machine, but victims against victims in a race to survive the ordeal.
Rated 10 Jul 2013
Rated 03 Jun 2013
60
47th
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Rated 03 Jun 2013
Rated 29 Mar 2013
71
22nd
This movie was good,i like the first one better.
Rated 29 Mar 2013
Rated 05 Mar 2013
20
19th
A notch down from the already mediocre first film, but at least at this point the script still makes some small amount of (contrived) sense and the gruesomeness of the traps is kind of fresh and shocking. Just you wait, it gets so much worse along the line. (2/5)
Rated 05 Mar 2013
Rated 28 Jan 2013
4
44th
The bulk of it doesn't work that much, with traps that largely elicit shrugs and a cast of bland slasher movie ciphers, but I will admit I did kinda like the twists of the final fifteen minutes, including the timeline reveal and the way it links back into the original film.
Rated 28 Jan 2013
Rated 26 Nov 2012
80
31st
Unlike most horror flicks, Jiggsaw is one of those guys in a film I can respect more than Freddy or Jason simply because it's not a "fight for your life because this guy will kill you if you're too late". The creativity that goes into this is a little short of a masterpiece. I just wish there were more back story to Jiggsaw.
Rated 26 Nov 2012
Rated 24 Nov 2012
5
2nd
No I didn't like it.
Rated 24 Nov 2012
Rated 26 Oct 2012
65
43rd
* Casting, Acting : 5
* Script : 7.5
* Directing, Aura : 7
* Ease of Viewing : 7
* Naked Eye : 6
Rated 26 Oct 2012
Rated 14 Oct 2012
22
5th
I had a feeling this would be poor but nothing could prepare me for how much so. At least the cash generated from desperate, but popular, sequels helps fund some more interesting and original films. At least, that's what I tell myself as I'm watching.
Rated 14 Oct 2012
Rated 30 Jul 2012
2
46th
Another sense-free Gorno. Suitable only for post-pub-passing-out or the recently pubescent.
Rated 30 Jul 2012
Rated 10 Jul 2012
50
26th
Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with the first film's premise.
Rated 10 Jul 2012
Rated 13 May 2012
66
53rd
Litt snill, men jeg elsker slike filmer :)
Rated 13 May 2012
Rated 04 May 2012
64
42nd
Relatively entertaining - like the rest of the Saw films, if they are on TV I'll watch them.
Rated 04 May 2012
Rated 22 Jan 2012
86
96th
Plot 14/20 Fiction 19/20 Casting/Acting 16/20 Worldbuilding 17/20 Entertainment 20/20
Rated 22 Jan 2012
Rated 09 Jan 2012
20
11th
I don't really see many shitty movies, unfortunately.
Rated 09 Jan 2012
Rated 20 Oct 2011
15
21st
"Unable to deliver the single novel concept or unexpected surprise that might justify its existence." - Nick Schager
Rated 20 Oct 2011
Rated 19 Aug 2011
59
36th
When tobin bell isn't on screen the film is bland. He is so intense and quietly nuanced as jigsaw all of his scenes are gripping. The drama and gore that play out in the house are pretty standard horror even in 05 but not atrocious(speaking as a genre fan that is). Not as intimate as the original but it still has a sense of mystery and the twist at the end is a good payoff.
Rated 19 Aug 2011
Rated 21 Jul 2011
35
9th
Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise.
Rated 21 Jul 2011
Rated 22 Mar 2011
45
40th
Saw II manages to improve on most of the areas the first Saw came up short in. Unfortunately it ends up void of all the great things from the first Saw, again making the movie an uneven mess. Despite its mediocrity, it manages to paint a more even picture than its predecessor and as such is the definitive movie in the Saw collection before the series goes to hell with number 3.
Rated 22 Mar 2011
Rated 21 Dec 2010
40
30th
first one was fun, this one was watchable but not that good
Rated 21 Dec 2010
Rated 17 Dec 2010
25
12th
Effectively tense and horrific, but also horrifically idiotic and banal in every conceivable way. It took until the aughties for "torture porn" to become a fad and for the graphic horror genre to finally draw big production money from the studios. Sadly, like everything highly commercialized in America, this resulted in just really slick stinkers like this.
Rated 17 Dec 2010
Rated 14 Nov 2010
40
43rd
Better than the first but still suffers from piss-poor plotting, where characters suddenly have flashbacks to previously unseen events every time they need to resolve a situation. The supposed twist of the real killer's identity was painfully obvious after the whole "likes to be in the trap" setup of the original. And on the needle pit, possibly one of the most sickening scenes in recent movie history, and this is a definite miss.
Rated 14 Nov 2010
Rated 11 Nov 2010
66
27th
Not as scary as the first one (no, really!), but not as boring as some of the later instalments, which means this is one of the more funnier films in the Saw series.
Rated 11 Nov 2010
Rated 09 Nov 2010
54
6th
the movie compared to the first movie is weaker and the shock at the end of the film compared to previous film isn't surprising . again , the actors aren't good in their roles .
Rated 09 Nov 2010
Rated 08 Oct 2010
15
1st
Painfully un-original and lifeless.
Rated 08 Oct 2010
Rated 01 Sep 2010
23
6th
Everything I liked about the original is either stale or absent in this one. Last one I'll see in this series.
Rated 01 Sep 2010
Rated 17 Aug 2010
78
49th
I love all Saw films.
Rated 17 Aug 2010
Rated 30 Jul 2010
72
54th
It was better and more thrilling then the first, had a better story behind it.
Rated 30 Jul 2010
Rated 25 Jul 2010
50
29th
All Saw films are bad. Despite this, this along with number one are the best
Rated 25 Jul 2010
Rated 24 Jul 2010
80
45th
They messed up this movie by shooting too much of it. This one was worse than the first one.
Rated 24 Jul 2010
Rated 25 Jun 2010
1
11th
Final Rating: 1/100 (F) - The sequel to the first Saw movie isn't any better.
Rated 25 Jun 2010
Rated 08 Jun 2010
89
84th
This to me is the best of all the Saw movies. The needle pit alone is worth the rating. The twist of course was awesome. But, the new apprentice was cool. This is a franchise that made Lionsgate.
Rated 08 Jun 2010
Rated 19 Apr 2010
70
34th
Not sure how to give this a numerical rating, as it fulfills its duty to keep you watching for the length of the movie and creeps you out and makes you think how much it would suck to be one of them. But it's also really only worth it the first time you watch it. I like the Saw series, but more as guilty pleasures of horror movies with a bit of a point.
Rated 19 Apr 2010
Rated 13 Feb 2010
90
87th
The second part really takes the idea behind the series to its full extent. There's the plot, the blood, characters, events. It's the best Saw part yet. Everything is in place!
Rated 13 Feb 2010
Rated 26 Jan 2010
60
64th
A good sucessor to the ultimate twist ending movie, which singlehandedly boosted the horror rankings.
Rated 26 Jan 2010
Rated 13 Jan 2010
80
25th
While the worst of the Saw series, that doesn't mean it's bad. Not at all. There are excellent traps and the scenes with Jigsaw being interrogated are priceless. The main flaw is that none of the characters in the traps are really that likeable and some are cliche. Other than that, the movie is excellent. Go see it.
Rated 13 Jan 2010
Rated 29 Dec 2009
45
17th
Hey cool, another Saw!
Rated 29 Dec 2009
Rated 24 Nov 2009
0
0th
How does the first sequel in an increasingly ludicrous (and ludicrously successful) franchise remain its low-point? This is vile, trashy exploitation that takes its aesthetic cues from puke and fools itself into believing its villain-cum-antihero has something meaningful to say. The first Saw was decent because it was campy and attempted to be something more than its death sequences; Saw II figures the latter is all we want. Worse yet, based on its popularity, I suppose that is true.
Rated 24 Nov 2009
Rated 17 Nov 2009
80
27th
best in series
my favorite horror flick
Rated 17 Nov 2009
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