Movies - Saw II

	Movies - Saw II

Saw II is the sequel to the 2004 horror/splatter/thriller film Saw. It was released in most parts of the world on October 28, 2005, but not released in Australia until November 17, 2005. Darren Lynn Bousman took over the directing duties of the film, and also co-wrote the story's script with Leigh Whannell, the original film's co-writer.

Cast

Tobin Bell
as John/Jigsaw
Tim Burd as Obi
John Fallon as Video Techie
Franky G
as Xavier
Erik Knudsen
as Daniel Matthews
Dina Meyer
as Kerry
Beverley Mitchell
as Laura

Tony Nappo as Gus

Glenn Plummer
as Jonas

Shawnee Smith
as Amanda

Emmanuelle Vaugier
as Addison

Donnie Wahlberg
as Erick Matthews

Plot

Tagline: Oh yes...there will be blood.

The film starts off with a man waking up alone, seated in a chair in a grungy, sealed room. A device is secured around his neck. A nearby TV turns on, showing the familiar "clown" figure Jigsaw employed in the first film. Jigsaw's recorded message tells the man that as punishment for being a police informant, spying upon and betraying others, and for not appreciating life, he has to play Jigsaw's "game". When the timer goes off, the device will snap closed, impaling the man's head with several sharp nails lining the inside of the device (like an iron maiden). The TV cuts to the man lying on an operating table with a shadowy figure standing over him, as Jigsaw tells him (and an x-ray photo confirms) that the key to unlock the device has been implanted behind his eye. A scalpel has been left for the man to carve the key out from his eye socket, if he chooses to do so. As he gets up from the chair, he triggers a timer built into the device. The terrified man fails to extract the key in time and is killed.

Detective Matthews is called to the scene, as the deceased was his informant, and discovers a message scrawled on the ceiling which reads, "Look Closer, Detective Matthews." Matthews spots an engraving on the metal contraption, and believes he knows where Jigsaw is — the Wilson Steel building. After his initial reluctance, his former partner, Kerry, finally convinces him to join the team entering the building to arrest Jigsaw.

After some of the accompanying SWAT team fall prey to one of Jigsaw's booby traps, they find Jigsaw. Very ill due to his advanced stage cancer, he offers no further resistance as the SWAT team handcuffs him. As they start to take him away, he directs Matthews and the others to an adjoining room, which contains several monitors showing various rooms of a house, along with an electronic timer counting down from 2 hours. On one of the monitors, Matthews sees a room with eight people forced to play Jigsaw's latest game; among them is Matthews's own son, Daniel. He later notices that all other seven are people he has framed for crimes they did not commit.

The story switches to the captives in the house. Amanda, (a survivor from the original film) breaks through a loose section of a brick wall in the room they found themselves in, and finds a key and a tape recorder containing a taped message from Jigsaw explaining their predicament: they have been exposed to a deadly toxic nerve gas (specifically sarin, which Jigsaw himself references as having been used in the real-life gas attack on the Tokyo Subway) and will die within 2 hours unless they find the antidotes that are hidden around the house (they are given the clue that they all have the combination to the safe in the back of their mind, and that the combination can be found "over the rainbow"). The key has a note warning them not to use it to open the door in the room, but Xavier ignores the message, and turns the key in the lock while Gus looks through the eyehole. The lock is rigged to fire a gun pointing directly at the eyehole. The gun discharges into Gus's eye, killing him. Amanda reveals to the others that she has had to play one of Jigsaw's games before, and pleads with them that they have to follow his "rules".
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