From E.B.:
"SAW II (2005) Crime/Horror/Thriller, Rated R for grisly violence and gore, terror, language and drug content, 93 minutes, Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Written by Bousman and Leigh Whannell (Starring Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Tobin Bell)
I gotta bash this one. I was so bored! I like a good horror movie -- not too gory, but it can have a hand cut off, something like that is OK. I wouldn't recommend buying it on DVD. It's the same plot as the first movie -- it's just a bad sequel. It was just too much like the first one. A guy kidnaps people and puts them in situations where they have to make life-or-death decisions. He puts them in traps and makes them try to figure out a way to save their lives. He might put a tattoo of a code on the back of a guy's neck and forces the guy to make a choice of cutting the tattoo off the back of his own neck within an hour, or die. Every turn the movie took, I didn't like it at all. I wouldn't recommend it. I feel sorry for people who actually spent money to go to this movie. I hate bashing people's movies. I liked the first movie, but this one did nothing for me."
Sequels are basically never good, pour one out for the 93 minutes of watching Saw II that Emil Brown will never get back. That said you got to love a guy, forced by an inept 2006 KC Royals FO to write movie reviews, looking out for the common man. Not only does Emil advise you to save your hard earned entertainment dollar; he goes out of his way to feel sorry for the people who already chose to see Saw II. "It was just too much like the first one" is the kind of to-the-point utilitarian critique of a movie that you just don't get from professional film critics. What a remarkable human being.
Emil Brown 1998 slash: .256/.293/.282
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