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4.0étoiles sur 5
Oh, really?, Fév 14 2006
I don't know what the All Music Guide's Jeremy Wheeler finds implausible about the original Saw's finale, as the final two to five minutes (for me) revealed the sheer twisted, diabolical genius of Leigh's script. The denouement basically catapulted the film head and shoulders above any other horror movie I've ever seen (prompting multiple rewinds), breaking out of its genre and entering my shortlist of "recent classics". By attempting to echo the previous film's ending without as much substance, "Saw II" pales in comparison. Slightly.(And not to reveal any surprises, but a certain element central to "Saw II" makes the previous ending much more plausible, if one notices it. I risk spoiling the movie if I say any more.) Now, on to "Saw II": yes, this movie's ending attempts to treat the viewer to another quick-resolving ending, in which details are given in machine-gun fashion so that all is revealed... only this time, nothing is as amazingly brilliant. The first movie left us with more questions than answers. The second answers most of those questions, then just doesn't bring more up. While "Saw"'s puzzles and games seemed terrifyingly impossible to win, "Saw II" left me wanting to slap the participants silly, asking "How _could_ you?" Throughout the film, clues are laid out for most of the puzzles... yet the clues, in plain sight, go by unnoticed by the participants. Adrenaline? Fear? Distrust of their captor? This, combined with the ending, makes it impossible for me to give this five stars. Still, four stars as a film rating isn't shabby. The movie shocks and makes blood curdle by playing on many of our common fears. Take away the situation and put the same elements in, and many of us would still squirm in our seats. My fear is that "Saw II"'s partial use of "slasher gore" tactics (which, on the other hand, may increase delight from viewers who love watching slasher-type films) risks pointing the way to much more commonplace, and therefore mundane, "Saw" films to come.
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