Ah, anothey day, another gruesome, disgustingly gory movie to watch. It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it. This movie had a lot to live up to after the success of the first movie. it's scary being a sequel when the original movie you'refollowing made eleventy-bajillion dollars. That raises the expectations of the amount you have to make at the box office in order to be considered a success. A full 98% of sequels are worse than the original movies, according to a study I just made up, so it's a lot of pressure put on the sequel to make lots of money and also to appease critics who are chomping at the bit, ready to condemn your movie as a pale comparison to the original movie. With how much money the first movie made, it was inevitable that a sequel would follow, and while there's a chance it will be good, there's an even bigger chance it will flop and destroy your reputation as a filmmaker (no pressure or anything). So how does this movie hold up?
The killer Jigsaw is back, and this time he hasn't just kidnapped one or two victims, he has a whole posse of them. A group of misfits wake up in a house with little to no memory of how they got there. They discover they are trapped with a slow acting poison in the air, and they have to find a way out before it kills them all. As time moves on, secrets are revealed, and they begin to discover what happened to them and how they ended up in Jigsaw's clutches in the first place. Meanwhile (back at the ranch), a bunch of cops are searching for another cop's son, who is trapped with the group of people in the house, many of whom don't like cops and all of whom have some beef with the cop, played by Donnie Wahlberg, whose son is trapped with them. yikes, I hope they don't find out who he is. Will anyone survive, or will Jigsaw kill a whole house full of victims?
i liked this movie even better than the original. That's rare, as I've mentioned before, since so many sequels fail to live up to the original films. This one was gritty and gross and I avoided all reviews for fear of spoilers, so the movie was full of surprises for me. Too many reviews give away the whole plot of the movie, that's why I try so hard to avoid spoiling the entire thing for you in my reviews. Heck, the poster for this movie even spoiled one of the best lines of the movie, "oh yes, there will be blood." That line would have flipped me out if I hadn't read it eleventy-bajillion times by the point I watched this movie.
What's worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack? Trying to find a needle in a stack of needles. that's just one of Jigsaw's traps in this movie, and it's gruesome how it plays out. There are some pretty cool traps in this movie. It was inevitable, with the success of the first movie, that the sequel would have to be bigger and better than the original, so we get to see more of Jigsaw's traps and more gore than the original had, too. Plus this one is just mean. There's a lot of mean-spirited gore in this movie, mostly coming from one character (jerk). The twist at the end is good, too, though I've seen it so many times now that I forget how good it is. Overall, this is one of those rare unicorns: a sequel that might even be better than the original.
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