SAW's self-perpetuating premise is a horror-franchise dream: an ingenious serial killer who stages life-or-death games that require "players" to horribly mutilate themselves or others in order to survive, a conceit limited only by the writer's sick imagination. Unfortunately, that imagination flags early in the first sequel to the grisly 2004 sleeper hit, though the bang-up ending nearly makes it all worthwhile and it opens with a set piece worthy of its predecessor. Michael (Noam Jenkins), a police informant, wakes up in an empty room with what looks like two halves of a spiked, spring-loaded walnut locked around his neck. On a closed-circuit TV, a puppet-man explai...
Released:
2005
Rated:
R
Length:
91 mins