Good acting, especially from Donnie Wahlberg and Tobin Bell.
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They establish a strong villain in Jigsaw, and create an ambiguity about him that would, sadly, be destroyed in later films.Eric Matthews, a sleazy police detective, is tasked with helping his department to capture the mysterious serial killer best known by Jigsaw. Secondly, they’re easily the best of the series, unless Saw VII has surprises up its sleeve later this week. Firstly, because watching more than two of these films in a row can become extremely demoralising. I watched Saw and Saw II together for two reasons.
While Daniel was in the room with his father the whole time, Amanda was Jigsaw’s woman on the inside, having been recruited following her survival in the first film. The final twists in the tale here is equal if not better than the great reveal in the first film, as what the cops think is a live feed of Jigsaw’s latest game is actually revealed to be a recording of a game that has already concluded with the survival of Daniel and Amanda. There’s some nice tension in the fact that they’re all connected by Matthews, in that he framed all of them except Daniel, who is, of course, his son. Where Saw found one compelling story to sustain the length of a feature, Saw II favours a house of horrors wherein some stock criminal characters travel from room to room while slowly choking on nerve gas. In the progressive shambles of traps, though, we see the beginning of the series’ undoing. The ‘needle in a haystack’ test, in particular, made me cringe more upon a repeat viewing, as Jigsaw survivor Amanda Young (Shawnee Smith), is chucked into the pit by despicable hustler Xavier. It starts a trend that reaches the terminal level of vomit inducing torture porn around about Saw IV, but it is at least still finding innovative ways to put characters through the wringer. The squeam factor is ramped up considerably in the sequel, it has to be said. A battle of wills ensues between Detective Matthews and Jigsaw, but one man’s refusal to listen to the other could have fatal consequences.
One of the people in Jigsaw’s grasp is Daniel, Eric’s son. Specifically, a SWAT team led by Detective Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg), who busts Jigsaw in his lair as he starts a new game, with several wasters stuck in a condemned house filled with his patented games of chance and torture. It might not have been to everyone’s taste, but it made over $100m at the worldwide box office, and so Saw II, the first of many annual sequels, came out close to Halloween 2005. It has the kind of intelligence that would be missed in the later sequels.įor its ingenuity and interesting approach to the idea of redemptive torture, Saw made a splash when it romped into cinemas in 2004. The reason why those who like Saw like it so much was because it’s smart as a whip, and it keeps an audience riveted even when they’re repulsed by such plot devices as the reverse bear trap or the room full of barbed wire. We suspect Tapp might be Jigsaw, Tapp suspects that Gordon is Jigsaw and both trapped men suspect each other by turns. Gordon gives the story outside of the bathroom a human element. Circumstances have conspired to bring Gordon here for a long time, but he never suspects it might have something to do with one John Kramer being one of his terminal patients.Īnother nice touch in the first film is Detective Tapp (Danny Glover), whose obsessive pursuit of Dr. Gordon’s task to kill Adam and secure both his freedom and the safety of his wife and kids. The complexities of the first film mount up and reveal themselves over 103 minutes.
Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam Faulkner-Stanheight (Leigh Whannell), brought together in a dilapidated bathroom and encouraged by Jigsaw to saw through their chained feet in order to escape. We don’t really meet him for the whole of Saw, the first film in the series, even though he’s onscreen for more of the running time than you first realise. In the earlier films, in particular, he has a cold logic that you can’t help but admire, even if you do totally disagree with his moral standpoint. He’s a man who’s on record saying that he abhors murderers, and yet believes that putting ne’er-do-wells through intensely violent trials can redeem them.
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