Keeping up with my promise of viewing the first three Saw films before the release of Saw IV, I sat myself down and watched this film a few hours after seeing the first. Now, we all know what's coming, "the first movie was great and original and the second was just kind of there." Well to be honest, the first was original and stuff, but I liked this second one more surprisingly. My favorite element of movies is always plot twists and surprises, and this movie is full of them and has excellent connection to the first film making it a true sequel with returning characters, themes, and settings. The connections between the first and the sequel here definitely saved this movie.
So let's see what we got here, we got a bunch of new torture scenes, about twice as many new charact
ers as in the first film, and we already have captured the mastermind of the first film within the first 15 minutes of the film. We also have some recycled creepy scenes like the little puppet on the tricycle. I don't know if that puppet is suppose to be scary or mocking horror films of the past, but I find it hilarious. I feel the director knew these movies could include a little more fun like the boy's cell phone answering message being changed to the raspy voice was funny. I definitely did laugh at some of the over the edge deaths and dialogue, and only really found the foot cutting and eye gouge scenes in these two movie somewhat disturbing.
ers as in the first film, and we already have captured the mastermind of the first film within the first 15 minutes of the film. We also have some recycled creepy scenes like the little puppet on the tricycle. I don't know if that puppet is suppose to be scary or mocking horror films of the past, but I find it hilarious. I feel the director knew these movies could include a little more fun like the boy's cell phone answering message being changed to the raspy voice was funny. I definitely did laugh at some of the over the edge deaths and dialogue, and only really found the foot cutting and eye gouge scenes in these two movie somewhat disturbing. The characters are usually what makes or break films in my eyes, usually in horror everyone has the intelligence of a rhinoceros on narcotics, especially the steroid abusing
man who decides it would be easier forget logic and reason to not write the combination of the safe, start killing everyone, and even slice off part of his own skin. Come on, no one is that stupid. I felt that the characters stuck in the house did not play the desperate to live thing well at all; they all seemed d
umbfounded by nothing. The house was a great idea, but I would have loved to see more character interaction and maybe some of the more dry death scenes would have had more passion to the audience. When a movie features likable characters you care about it, you feel destroyed like someone you really know died, you feel like the director has created some injustice or crime by killing off the innocent person. I didn't feel happy or sad when these people died, they just kind of.... well died, I knew they would eventually, but at least make me feel some pride in the overly rich drug dealer or the serial rapist getting burned, shocked, stabbed, or sliced.
man who decides it would be easier forget logic and reason to not write the combination of the safe, start killing everyone, and even slice off part of his own skin. Come on, no one is that stupid. I felt that the characters stuck in the house did not play the desperate to live thing well at all; they all seemed d
umbfounded by nothing. The house was a great idea, but I would have loved to see more character interaction and maybe some of the more dry death scenes would have had more passion to the audience. When a movie features likable characters you care about it, you feel destroyed like someone you really know died, you feel like the director has created some injustice or crime by killing off the innocent person. I didn't feel happy or sad when these people died, they just kind of.... well died, I knew they would eventually, but at least make me feel some pride in the overly rich drug dealer or the serial rapist getting burned, shocked, stabbed, or sliced. 
Well I enjoyed the beginning and end of this film. There were a few plot holes here and there, but making a few personal assumptions never hurt anyone and was probably intended. Generally seems like most people wish this movie was nonexistent, but it's definitely a watchable sequel. If you loved Saw and need a little more check it out.
2 comments:
I agree with you when you say that the characters were just there. You knew that they would die eventually but when they did, you didn't really care. When the audience is allowed to get to know the characters and they are killed off, you're right, they feel like there is some injustice or crime in their deaths. I agree that in Saw 2, you never get to like any of the characters.
I'm not entirely shure I would have been able to cope with a character I actually like getting killed that way. For me, it was hard enough (and good enough as far as entertainment goes) to see the girl fall into the pit of needles. If that had been a main character who I really felt for, I probably would have gotten angry. Perhaps that's a weakness in my own character, but I thought it was good that they kept the main characters relatively safe, and only slaughtered the ones I didn't know.
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