Review“How much blood will you shed to stay alive?” - JohnJohn Kramer, a.k.a Jigsaw, is back with another group of people made to suffer under his sociopath game playing. Eight people are trapped in a house, with a slow release nerve gas apparently giving them only two hours to live. There is no way out of the house, but the doors will automatically open in three hours, and there are antidotes to the lethal gas positioned throughout the house. Play the game and survive or face being voted out of the house in dramatic fashion. Meanwhile Detective Eric Matthews tracks John to his lair, and looks ready to finish the game once and for all. Except Eric's son Daniel is one of the eight people trapped in John's latest fantasy about changing people's lives. All Detective Matthews has is a live video feed of the house, can he extract the location from John, and what lengths will he go to in order to get that location? Is everything as it seems? Is Amanda like the most unlucky person in the world as she is also in the house, once again playing a game! While the original movie was certainly interesting, in a sort of grunge look with a couple of surprises way, the sequel simply slips into gorenography and plays to the lowest common denominator. While the plot might have some clever twists coming at you the movie overall is playing to the sort of mouth breather who slows down at accidents. There isn't much in terms of redeeming features going down here with the movie being a clear cash in on the surprise result of the original. Overall it's pretty cynical and Boredwood should be ashamed of themselves for pandering to the sort of desensitisation that has lead to recent atrocities such as school yard massacres. Since when did torture become an acceptable form of entertainment? I can understand the Bogans all rushing along to see this shilling experience, but for horror fans to arrive by the truck load! Let's just say the genre has fallen a long way when the two major sub-genres are tween lite and gorenography. Thankfully in recent years gorenography, at least, has seen a major collapse at the box office, tween horror looks set to continue till the end of time or until someone drops a strategic nuke on L.A. Could Boredwood stop pandering to the "want to be scared" crowd! In the first movie we had a major grunge look happening and the question of just how far you would go in order to save yourself. There was a real feeling of tension laced throughout the movie with the shock twist catching everyone, except the pathetic liars on the internet, by surprise. Movie two goes for designer grunge, it's obviously made up, and the feeling that about everyone is going to fall afoul of one of the traps the ailing John has somehow created. The tension of the first movie is completely missing as we wait to see how inventive the kills will be, sort of like a 1980s slasher with an industrial spin if you like. At no stage did I get concerned for anyone, none of the characters are presented as sympathetic in the least, as that might detract from the traps the mouth breathers have flocked along to see, and the sub-plot about Daniel being Detective Matthews son gets dropped and left in the dust of yet another bad decision by a victim. If you are going to push a point in a movie then deliver on that plot point, don't leave it hanging like a Bogan's bottom jaw. There's more holes in the plot here than you can drive a decent sized apartment through. Clumsy and uneven writing comes to mind, with the central focus of the first movie diffused as eight potential victims are better than two right? The old “a forty foot shark is scarier than a twenty foot shark” is in evidence here with Boredwood showing they are pretty much a one trick pony when it comes to feeding the conveyor belt rubbish to the mouth breathers. What I found even more amusing is at the end of the movie when all is revealed and we get a major twist going down, the previous events are recycled in flash forward fashion so even the most mentally challenged mouth breather can get how clever the Writers think they are. No doubt this lead to a splurge of posts on faceborg about how individual bogans worked out the plot before it was revealed. Your mouth breather loves to think he/she is clever, sorry your not, you forked out your hard earned Government handout to catch a cynical movie. The only winner here is Boredwood kids, and the suits are laughing all the way to their Porsches. On the bright side of the bear trap the soundtrack is actually superior to the original, with Charlie Clouser delivering a pretty effective score. It helped me get though the pain of Director Darren Lynn Bousman trying to be clever with the kinetic head ache inducing bollocks. Sorry fast editing works if the scene is of some significance, not because things are freaking boring and you want to get some impact happening. Edgar Wright is about the only Director able to get away with that sort of thing, and he makes Bousman look like a moronic shampoo advert maker. Hey I'm out of space here and I didn't even get to talk about the ham fisted acting, seriously boring dialogue poor Tobin Bell has to spout, or the fact that about everyone working on this movie looks like they should just continue with their crew membership down MacDonalds. A movie that relies on an Audience of mouth breathers sitting through staged death scene after staged death scene by characters that make the normal slasher teens look like rocket scientists. A new low for Boredwood, even by their standards, but hey 9 out of 10 Bogans thought the plot, once it was explained to them at the end of the movie, was clever.
ScaryMinds Rates this movie as ... Cynical money maker that isn't as clever as it thinks it is.
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