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Well, I tease. This one is probably the best of the three. Granted, this isn't saying much, really, but there it is. As with the other two movies, the acting was good, and the pacing did an excellent job of creating tension. And as with the other two movies, the basic premise is unbelievable. Granted, at this point, Jigsaw had two accomplices... but I get ahead of myself.
The plot of this one is simple: several victims are locked in a house with a lethal gas that will kill them in two hours. He never names the gas, but he mentions that the gas was used in the Tokyo subway attack, which means it was sarin. Forgetting, for a moment, that sarin is probably not the easiest thing on Earth to acquire, the writers of this movie should have done their research. Convulsions are realistic. Vomiting is realistic. Coughing up blood? Not so much. But then, I suppose most actors would not want to be shown on screen pissing themselves, shitting themselves, and foaming at the mouth. The other problem is that sarin is deadly in such tiny doses -- how would someone be able to release it slowly enough to give their victims two hours? I'm sure it could be done, but the writers are already expecting me to believe that Jigsaw is an expert in too many disciplines as it is. But hey, what's one more?
Meanwhile, the police confront Jigsaw, and one of them talks to him for a while. Insert lots of self-justifying bullshit from Jigsaw about how he's "testing" people. Hints of "before I kill you, Mister Bond," and all that rubbish. Meanwhile, the SWAT team is watching a life feed of what's going on in the sarin-filled house. We discover later that it's not really a live feed; everything that we see in that house happened a few hours before the police see it. A clever use of timing... or possibly just a cheat on the part of the writers. You be the judge.
But hey, gorehounds! Wanna see someone burn alive? Check! Wanna see someone thrown into a pit full of needles? Check! Wanna see someone slice the skin off the back of his own neck? Check. Wanna see a girl slice open her wrists in a glass box? Check! Wanna see someone die of sarin poisoning? Check! Well, sorta. Wanna see someone die in
(Plays a series of rapidly tapped triplets on an electric guitar.)
Sorry, Bill and Ted reference there.
Anyway, the same twist ending formula gets used, in which we realize that his one surviving victim in the first movie, who was already showing (rather believable) signs of Stockholm Syndrome, has turned to the Dark Side of the Farce, and in fact keeps one of the pawns in Jigsaw's game alive... and then kills this pawn's father. She pulls off her mask (metaphorically and literally -- the pig's face gets used again) and in a taped message, she announces that she's carrying on Jigsaw's work. And a good thing, too -- Jigsaw spent most of this movie tethered to an IV, and can't move around without assistance, so he's not going to be able to play much of a role in Saw III.
As with the other ones, this movie isn't bad for gorehounds. It's the same kind of sick fun that Friday the Thirteenth was... it's just pretending to be much more than that. And failing badly.
| Saw II is part of a series on Shit Sandwiches |
The Movies: Saw I • Saw II • Saw III • Saw IV • Saw V • Saw VI Other Comments: I Saw Bunnies • Saw Home Alone • Saw in 15 seconds |