The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.
In a fun house like this the elaborate tortures seem to leave behind the real world of pain and suffering for the realm of slapstick; they're the kind of horrors that make you scream and laugh at the same time.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
10 Dec 2005
fresh:
Quite possibly Saw II sheds enough blood to satisfy horror aficionados.
– Susan Walker,
Toronto Star,
28 Oct 2005
rotten:
As it was in the first Saw, audiences are faced with insane leaps in logic that sabotage the last part of the film.
– Peter Hartlaub,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Oct 2005
rotten:
Saw II only has one ambition -- to make us squirm. And it does. Just don't be surprised if you need to switch to an electric razor after this.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
28 Oct 2005
rotten:
Saw II -- better-acted than its predecessor, which isn't saying much -- is so gratuitously, sadistically violent, and to such little end, that it finally falls over dead on the far side of obscene.