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| Saw II | |
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| File:SawIIposter2.jpg | |
| Directed by | Darren Bousman |
| Written by | Leigh Whannell |
| Starring | See below |
| Distributed by | Lions Gate Releasing |
| Running time | (approximately) 90 minutes |
Saw II is the sequel to the 2004 horror/thriller film Saw. It was released worldwide on October 28, 2005. Darren Lynn Bousman took over the directing duties of the film, and also co-wrote the story's script with Leigh Whannell, the original film's co-writer.
Cast
- Tobin Bell as John/Jigsaw
- Tim Burd as Obi
- John Fallon as Video Techie
- Franky G as Xavier
- Erik Knudsen as Daniel Matthews
- Dina Meyer as Kerry
- Beverley Mitchell as Laura
- Tony Nappo as Gus
- Glenn Plummer as Jonas
- Shawnee Smith as Amanda
- Emmanuelle Vaugier as Addison
- Donnie Wahlberg as Erick Matthews
Plot
- Tagline: Oh yes...there will be blood.
Eric Matthews has caught the Jigsaw killer and is looking to put a stop to his current game, already in progress. That game is staged in a house where 7 unfortunate participants are imprisoned. What Matthews doesn't realize is that another game is unfolding right in front of him...
The film starts off with a man waking up alone, seated in a chair in a grungy, sealed room. A device is secured around his neck. As he gets up from the chair, he triggers a timer built into the device. A nearby TV turns on, showing the familiar "clown" figure Jigsaw employed in the first film. Jigsaw's recorded message tells the man that as punishment for being a police informant, spying upon and betraying others, and for not appreciating life, he has to play Jigsaw's game. When the timer goes off, the device will snap closed, crushing the man's head with sharp nails inside the device (not unlike an iron maiden). The TV cuts to the man lying on an operating table with a shadowy figure standing over him, as Jigsaw tells him that the key to unlock the device has been implanted behind his eye. A scalpel has been left for the man to carve the key out from his eye socket, if he chooses to do so. The terrified man fails to extract the key in time and is killed.
Detective Matthews is called to the scene, as the deceased was his informant, and discovers a message scrawled on the ceiling which reads, "Look Closer, Detective Matthews." Matthews spots an engraving on the metal contraption, and believes he knows where Jigsaw is - the Wilson Steel building. After his initial reluctance, his former partner, Kerry, finally convinces him to join in the search warrant.
After some of the accompanying SWAT team fall prey to one of Jigsaw's booby traps, they find Jigsaw. Very ill due to his advanced stage cancer, he offers no further resistance as the SWAT team handcuffs him. As they start to take him away, he directs Matthews and the others to an adjoining room, which contains several monitors showing various rooms of a house, along with an electronic timer counting down from 2 hours. On one of the monitors, Matthews sees a room containing the group of Jigsaw's latest game-players, among them his own son, Daniel. He soon learns that the rest in the group are people he has framed for crimes they did not commit.
The story switches to the captives in the house. Amanda, (a surivivor from the original film) breaks through a loose section of a brick wall in the room they found themselves in, and finds a key and a tape recorder containing a taped message from Jigsaw explaining their predicament: they have been exposed to a deadly toxic gas, and will die within 2 hours unless they find the antidotes that are hidden around the house. The key has a note warning them not to use it to open the door in the room, but Xavier ignores the message, and turns the key in the lock while Gus looks through the eyehole. The lock is rigged to fire a gun pointing directly at the eyehole. The gun discharges into Gus's eye, killing him. Amanda reveals to the others that she has had to play one of Jigsaw's games before, and pleads with them that they have to follow his "rules".
The terrified captives begin to explore the house. Laura finds another door which leads to the basement, with another tape marked for Obi which reveals how he had assisted Jigsaw to get the others in the house and explaining that there are two antidote syringes inside a large furnace in the room. Obi climbs inside to retrieve them, the door closes and the furnace ignites. Obi is burned to death before they can get him out, and both antidotes are lost.
The Jigsaw killer insists that Matthews has to play a game to save his son. The game is simple, he just has to sit with Jigsaw--by himself--and listen to what he has to say. All the while, the timer is ticking away in the room with the monitors. Matthews is on the verge of cracking, but decided he has no other choice but to hear Jigsaw out.
Forcing open a door into another room, the captives find another tape, this one marked for Xavier. On the tape, Jigsaw condemns him for his life as a drug pusher and states that if he wants to escape, he must wallow in the filth that he made others wallow in. Daniel pulls back a sheet to reveal a pit full of syringes. The message says a key is in the pit that will open a door concealing another antidote. Xavier grabs Amanda and throws her into the pit, yelling at her to dig through them to find the key. Stabbed with dozens of needles, Amanda finally finds it and gives it to Xavier. He races to the lock but fumbles with it. The door's timer expires, sealing the door forever. Daniel helps Amanda out of the pit.
After growing tired of listening to Jigsaw and helplessly watching one captive after another die while the timer runs down, Matthews finally snaps and unleases his rage on the old man. After thrashing Jigsaw across the room, he says, "Game over," and finally agrees to take Matthews to the house, but only if he can take him alone.
Meanwhile, in the house, Xavier has snapped and is trying the kill his fellow captives to retrieve the numbers written on the back of their necks (the answer to Jigsaw's cryptic clue "You all possess the combination. It's all in the back of your mind."). These numbers are supposed to be the combination to the safe in the first room which holds an antidote. He kills Jonas and then goes after the others.
Addison finds a picture of Daniel and Matthews together and realizes that Daniel is the son of the cop who put her in prison. The effects of the toxin are starting to become more severe, and she wanders off as Laura succumbs to the nerve gas. Amanda finds Jonas's body and realizes Xavier means to kill them all. She goes back to rescue Daniel.
While pursuing Amanda and Daniel, Xavier comes across Addison who has fallen victim to another of Jigsaw's contraptions - a glass box suspended from the ceiling that contains an antidote. On the underside of the box are two holes just wide enough to put your arms through, once you push past the blades covering them. She discovers too late that the blades are arranged similar to a Chinese finger trap preventing her from removing her arms once inside; the edges dig deeper into her flesh the harder she pulls. Xavier reads her number and leaves her to die in the contraption.
Matthews leaves behind his team, and escapes with Jigsaw in his van. Almost immediately after this, the police finally locate the broadcast location of the video feed and take off for the house as well. Once at the house, Jigsaw gives Matthews the key to get inside. When Matthews gets inside he finds the dead bodies of the victims littered throughout the rooms.
Amanda and Daniel retreat to the first room as Xavier tries breaking through the door to get at them. Amanda pushes aside the safe, revealing a trap door underneath. They go through the hatch just as Xavier breaks through. He follows them, cornering them in the infamous bathroom from the first movie. The bodies of Adam and Zep are still there, rotted over with fungus and mold. Amanda tells Xavier that Daniel is dead and that if he kills her, he won't be able to find out the number on his own neck. Xavier, now insane from the poison, takes his knife and slices a section of skin off the back of his neck. He moves in to kill Amanda, Daniel suddenly jumps forward, crushing Xavier's ankle and, using the hacksaw from the first movie, slits Xavier's throat, killing him.
While the SWAT team enters the house, Kerry is watching the monitors, confused that the cameras aren't showing them in the house. They soon realise that they have been led to the wrong location, and the images on the monitors were not a live feed, but a recording.
Meanwhile, at the real location, Matthews sees the open trapdoor and goes down to search find Daniel. He gets into the darkened bathroom, and sees someone lying in the bathtub. He approaches cautiously, but the person inside, wearing the same animal mask from the first film, leaps up, stuns him with a taser and stabs him in the leg with a syringe. Matthews drops to the floor. The attacker removes the mask, it is Amanda.
The timer in the room at Wilson Steel expires and a safe across the room opens to reveal Daniel, wearing an oxygen mask, weary but alive. He had been there the whole time, had Matthews been able to win Jigsaw's "game", he would have found his son "in a safe, secure place" just as Jigsaw had told him.
When Matthews wakes up, he finds an audio cassette player lying next to him. Playing the tape, Matthews learns that Amanda has become Jigsaw's protege and has now taken his place. He watches helplessly as Amanda closes the door on him. "Game over," she says, coining Jigsaw's catchphrase. Matthews, chained to a pipe, is left in the room alone only with the light from his flashlight and his gun now just out of reach. Jigsaw is shown, still sitting in Matthew's van, smiling.
Analysis
At the end of the film, the viewer comes to realize that Jigsaw's game was not really with the people in the house but with Detective Matthews. John allowed the detective to find him in the beginning, requesting him and leaving him with the clues as to where he was hiding. John told Matthews numerous times that this was a game and that if he simply sat and talked to him, he would find his son in "a safe, secure place" (a hidden hint that Daniel was in fact in the safe in John's room). Had Matthews done this, he would have waited out the timer, retrieved his son, and never entered into Amanda's trap. Daniel himself had no reason to be in the house. Based on John's questions for the detective, Matthews was a prime subject for John's game.
Statistics
- Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller.
- Rated R – Restricted: Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.
- UK-Rated 18 – Restricted: 18 and over only!
Trivia
- In August 2005, the MPAA rejected the poster for Saw II which used two severed fingers to resemble "II" in the movie's title. A new poster was produced, still using the fingers but not explicitly showing that they're severed.
- The entire movie was shot in 25 days.