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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NC-17
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0031398188599
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Lions Gate Films
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Films
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 14, 2006
Running Time: 93 minutes
Sales Rank: 3118
Studio: Lions Gate Films
Theatrical Release Date: October 28, 2005
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Product Description:
Jigsaw is back! the brilliant disturbed mastermind who wreaked havoc on his victims in 2004s saw is back for another round of horrifying life or death games. Dvd features audio commentary with director and actors the props of saw 2 and deconstructing jigsaws traps! Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/23/2008 Starring: Donnie Wahlberg Tobin Bell Run time: 92 minutes Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Saw II brings back many features of the original Saw: elaborate sadistic scenarios designed to 'test' the victims' will to live; Tobin Bell as the Machiavellian (yet doomed) serial killer Jigsaw; Shawnee Smith as Amanda, a survivor of one of Jigsaw's 'games', forced to play again; Dina Meyer (Starship Troopers), whose role as a detective is considerably expanded; and the stunningly godawful dialogue of screenwriter Leigh Whannel. The set-up this time is even more preposterous than before, as a rough-and-tumble cop named Eric (Donnie Whalberg, Band of Brothers) watches, on video monitors, his son trapped in a house filled with nerve gas and a handful of other victims, all of whom are mysteriously connected. Eric has captured Jigsaw, but the implacable killer refuses to reveal where the cop's son is being held... unless Eric will play by Jigsaw's rules. Fans of Saw will love Saw II, as the tortures are more gruesome than before; viewers who found Saw either detestable or laughable won't like Saw II either, as the characters rarely behave like actual people (even when a moment's explanation would solve a conflict, no one bothers to communicate, even though their lives are on the line). It's a festival of body fluids, agonized grimaces, and shrieks of pain--and if that's your thing, this is your movie. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good, effective sequel
This is a good piece of horror with some great & gruesome traps in it. There are a quite a few very effective setpieces and some really twisted games involving some truly unpleasant characters. It's a worthy sequel and worth watching for any horror fan.
Rating: - The Games Continue!!!
This was a really good sequel! I like the S.W.A.T team scenes and the traps and twists! After bailing his son out, Detective Eric Matthews finds out where Jigsaw is hiding, but for Jigsaw, getting caught is part of the game. Eight people are trapped in a house. Included in the game are Amanda from the original, Eric's son; Daniel, Xavier, Obi, Gus, Laura, Addison, and Jonas. They all must find an antidote for the poison gas they are breathing. Later, Xavier chases Amanda and Daniel to the classic Saw bathroom. Eric is finally enraged by Jigsaw that he beats him up until he tells him where the house is. If you love horror, Saw, and twists, you'll love SAW 2!!!
Rating: - very happy
I was very pleased with the speed of product delivery and the quality of the product.
Rating: - You gotta play by the rules
Saw 2 is a sequal that worked for the most part in my opinion. It stays true to the Saw theme by still asking if you are grateful to be alive, and asking how much blood you are willing to shed to stay alive once you are in a life or death situation (or game, as Jigsaw calls it). The games (or traps some may like to call them too) are more played out in this sequal, where as we only got to see glimpses in the first Saw. The main scenario is on a larger scale, played out in an old house with a group of people, as compared to the two men in a large bathroom in the first movie. A nice connection is made with the first movie (in addition to story elements) which brings some of the people into the same bathroom once again near the movie's end. There is also that unexpected surprise to the story that made probably the biggest impact (in my opinion) with the first Saw. Again, you couldn't quite see this one coming either, but it didn't have quite the satisfying and felt impact as the first Saw.
Tobin Bell is Jigsaw, and gets a lot more screen time in Saw 2, we even actually see his face quite a bit. More light is shed about who he is, where he's come from, and why he does what he does with these sick little games. The man has a point, but the scenarios he creates are so brutal its nearly impossible to see it as fear and panic take over. This is the case with detective Mathews (Donnie Whalberg) who is the main character in Saw 2, and whom the main game's focus is around. You got a house ... Read More
Rating:  - Not the cutting edge of sequels
This second installment of the Saw series is by far the worst of the bunch. Sequels are always a bad idea, especially when you're up against something as brilliant as the original Saw. Let's face it. This is a premise with severely limited room for expansion. The first Saw was a beautifully wretched and gruesome concept that was played out great on film. But this sequel didn't have much of a chance of matching the sweet bloody ambiance of its pedecessor. Like most sequels, since the premise of the movie was explained during the plot of the original flick, the writers don't feel the need to weigh down part II with a storyline. They just set the villian out in public again and have him wreek havoc and spill more blood with greater special effects than the first. And as always, it makes the sequel an insult to the original and a basic disappointment. They didn't even try to stand up to the original with this movie. The plot about all the people locked in a house with nerve gas was just so weak and contrived!! What was Lee W. thinking when he did this??? It was an okay movie over all. Blood, carnage and special effects are always fun to a point...but for the most part, this movie was the average expectation of a sequel...trying too hard to live off the name of the original, not bothering with a movie as long as we can depend on special effects. They really rushed through making a sequel before they had a real movie in mind. As much as I love carnage, I hate the obvious cheap capitalism displayed ... Read More
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