Saw II
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| German title | Saw II | ||
| Original title | Saw II | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2005 | ||
| length | Theatrical version 89 minutes Director’s Cut 91 minutes |
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| Age rating | FSK 18 | ||
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| Director | Darren Lynn Bousman | ||
| script |
Leigh Whannell Darren Lynn Bousman |
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| production |
Mark Burg Gregg Hoffman Oren Koules |
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| music | Charlie Clouser | ||
| camera | David A. Armstrong | ||
| cut | Kevin Greutert | ||
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Saw II is a horror - thriller from director Darren Lynn Bousman and the continuation of Saw . The script was co-written by Darren Lynn Bousman and Leigh Whannell .
action
The film starts some time after the end of the first part. In the opening scene you can see a young man who works as an informant for the police. He wakes up in a room with no memory of how he got there. A death mask studded with nails is strapped around his head. He gets the serial killer Jigsaw (English for. Jigsaw , Jigsaw puzzle = Puzzle ) via video the task to rid itself within one minute from the mask, resembling a iron maiden work. On the video he sees where to look for the key: behind his right eye. As the man looks around, he discovers a toolbox with a scalpel in it . He doesn't manage to cut out the key within the allotted time and the trap snaps shut. The young man falls to the ground. You can see blood pouring out of the mask.
When the police discover the young man's body, Detective Eric Matthews is also called to the scene, as "Look closer Detective Matthews" is written on the ceiling of the room. He identifies the young man as one of his informants, but shows himself uninterested in the case because he does not want to be dissuaded by a psychopathic perpetrator from doing his job with the police mostly quietly at his desk.
When Matthews understands the meaning of the hint - it points to the whereabouts of Jigsaw - he nevertheless agrees to be an "observer" when storming this place. Once there, the police actually found Jigsaw. He is on a drip and is debilitated from cancer and ailing. To their horror, however, they also discover some computer screens showing eight people trapped in a room: Daniel, the son of Detective Matthews, Amanda, the woman who was the only one of Jigsaw's victims to survive in the first part, the Businessman Gus, the choleric-aggressive Xavier, the unstable Laura, the rat-faced Obi, Jonas, who tries to be a leader, and the "tough" Addison.
A grueling game begins as the people breathe in the deadly nerve gas sarin , which will cause them to die of internal bleeding within two hours at the latest. The door to the outside opens only after three hours. They cannot escape from the house where they are, but there are syringes with the antidote hidden in the house . The victims have to solve quests in order to earn them and to show that they are so attached to life that, in Jigsaw's opinion, they are worth living on. One of those syringes is in the safe in the room where people wake up. According to a tape, everyone has "saved the combination for the safe at the very back". Only when Xavier sees the body of the manager, who was initially shot, does he recognize the colored number on his neck. The meaning of this message becomes clear to him: Each person has a number burned into the neck in the colors of the rainbow. These numbers must be entered in the correct order (like the colors of the rainbow) for the safe to open. Shortly afterwards he kills Jonas.
At the end of the film, Xavier cuts that piece of skin off his neck so that he can read his own number, but he dies afterwards because Daniel slits his throat with a saw from Part 1.
All together have something in common that needs to be found out. What they have in common is that Detective Matthews, whose son Daniel is a prisoner, put everyone else in jail by forging evidence.
Jigsaw wants to have a private conversation with the detective, explains the reasons for his actions and tries to convince Eric that he should change his life. Jigsaw, who is called John in “real” life, also says that he will see Daniel safe and sound if Matthews can talk to him alone and calmly. Eric breaks the rules, however, because he does not see any progress in the one-to-one conversation while his son is in mortal danger and time is running out. Ultimately, he beats up Jigsaw to find out where the house is where the victims are trapped. In fact, the puzzle killer wants to tell him, but demands that he drive to the house alone with Detective Matthews and only describe the way to him during the drive.
Only in the last few minutes is everything put into a logical sequence. It is learned that the eight people had already been locked up and that only one recording was presented to the police at all times. Daniel Matthews was locked in a safe at Jigsaw and his father speaking to him the entire time , and survives as the only victim. He had been given the injection with the antidote. This comes from the safe for which the number combination was required. So Jigsaw was telling the truth all along.
Amanda from the first part has meanwhile allied with Jigsaw and wants to continue his work after his death. That's why she's been aiming the whole time to lure Detective Matthews into the same room as the first part so that he can be used as the first test object. She also has the antidote in her body right from the start, which can be seen in the fact that she never coughs or spits up blood like the others do.
Finally, Detective Matthews is chained in the bathroom from the first part. Amanda closes the door with the words "Game Over". In the last shot you see Jigsaw sitting in Detective Matthews' van , seriously injured but smiling .
background
- It was released in theaters in the US on October 28, 2005, and in Germany on February 9, 2006.
- The production cost was estimated at four million US dollars.
- The film grossed around 148 million US dollars at box offices around the world, including around 87 million US dollars in the USA and around 7.5 million in Germany
- The film was also released abridged on DVD from the age of 16.
Reviews
"Terror film loosely based on relevant genre classics, which can neither formally nor content-wise tie in with the first part (" Saw ", 2004) and gives away its potential to a crude concept."
“As is so often the case with sequels, director Darren Lynn Bousman's cinema debut lacks the disturbing surprise effect of its predecessor. Nevertheless, his fast-paced and dirty staged adrenaline shocker with a whole arsenal of self-made torture devices makes even blood-trained splatter fans squint. A sadistic martyrdom that hits the stomach. Conclusion: Especially towards the end a somewhat conventional horror piece, which, however, could not have been nastier in terms of tension and terror. "
Awards
The film was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Horror Film in 2006 . Tobin Bell was nominated for the MTV Movie Award in 2006.
Web links
- Saw II in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Saw II at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Saw II at Metacritic (English)
- Saw II in the online movie database
- Saw II in the German dubbing file
- Review by Carsten Baumgardt on filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of Release for Saw II . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2006 (PDF; test number: 104 732 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Box Office Mojo.com: Box Office Results Saw 2
- ^ Saw II. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Cinema.de: Film review Saw II