#Saw 2 cast members tv#
but mainly I'm just sick to death of the ridiculously lame and consistently worthless deluge of PG-13 "horror" movies that offer nothing but formulaic stories, moronic dialogue, and photogenic TV actors who are way out of their element. Perhaps it's just the dormant Nine Inch Nails freak in me that loves the Saw flicks' cold and gruesome exteriors. The soon-to-be corpse cast-members are given perhaps one solid personality trait apiece to show off, which they do just prior to their inevitably icky demise. True that there's a good reason for this crew's collective crankiness, but aside from Mason's son Daniel (Eric Knudsen) and veteran Saw-avoider Amanda (Shawnee Smith) there's not much offered on the character menu. When we're not dealing with Mason and Jiggy, we're trapped in the death-house with eight of the most desperate whiners you ever will meet. Some of this material gets a bit redundant as the running time wears on, but Saw 2 moves at such a brisk clip that you'll just begin to notice the strain as the Act III insanity starts to kick in. For a little while we stick with Mason and Jigsaw as they throw dialogue at each other, most of which has to do with threats of violence or ruminations on the nature of human mortality.
Imagine Mason's amplified concern when he realizes that his teenage son is in among the poisoned captives.Īnd back and forth we go. So over the course of one extended interrogation, Jigsaw reveals that not only does he have eight people trapped inside a house filled with poison gas and horrible deathtraps, but also that we can all watch this sinful spectacle via live video! Detectives Mason (Donnie Wahlberg) and Kerry (Dina Meyer) are on the case he's got a short temper and an estranged son, while she's got a lot of exposition to unload and a pretty face. In come the police, and this time they have very little trouble apprehending the creatively kooky killer. I see a kinetic, exciting, and enjoyably intense inner struggle that ends with a crimson thwack. In this sequence some see pointlessly ugly desperation and gore for gore's sake. Suffice to say that sick ol' Jigsaw is up to his nasty tricks again: The prologue delivers a sequence in which one unfortunate guy gets his head squashed inside of a nail-coated, metallic venus-fly-trap mask thingamajig. This sequel doesn't slavishly follow up with the precise ending of Part 1, but it comes close enough to keep the loyal fans entertained.
#Saw 2 cast members movie#
Much of the movie is also your standard slasher stew mixed with some half-decent police procedural stuff - but when Saw 2 gets rolling with those gruesome, gritty puzzles, I think it's the coolest thing this side of Clive Barker's nasty ol' horror stories. Throughout both of these rusty little Saw movies, I'm posed with the question of " What would you do if you had to saw your own foot off / dig through a corpse's innards for a key / remand another person to death so that I might survive?" Saw 2 is the horror equivalent of that "Book of Questions" that we all bought and then broke out at parties.
I wouldn't go as far as to call Saw 2 a cerebral experience, but there's just something devilishly appealing about horror material that works in your brain and not just in your gut. By this point we already know how I feel about the Saw series, so you won't hurt my feelings if you skip down to the DVD specs.) (Note: The movie review section comes from my previous review(s) of Saw 2.
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