| | | "Blu-Ray Disc, Beyond High Definition."
Features: Widescreen, English, Subtitled, Spanish, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Jigsaw is back. The brilliant, disturbed mastermind returns for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game...
"Sickly brilliant and twistedly clever." Fred Topel, About.com
"Jigsaw is a wickedly fun villain..." Kyle Smith, New York Post
"...improves on all of the first film's problem areas, while leaving intact everything that was good about the concept." Luke Y. Thompson, Dallas Observer
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS OCTOBER 28, 2005The sequel to SAW, helmed by young director Darren Lynn Bousman, follows the exploits of a serial killer with a penchant for torture.
| Features | Audio: English DD-EX 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS HD 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 8/12/2008 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 20345 | | UPC: 00031398203452 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (2006) | | | MTV Award, Tobin Bell, Best Villain |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[It] takes the lead with its smoother landing, which is again primed to blow the movie wide open, but manages a more compelling job of it than the original's cheat finish." -- Grade: B- 11/04/2005 p.51Sight and Sound
"As Jigsaw, Tobin Bell is unnerving as the film's cancer-ridden, albino-skinned puppeteer." 01/01/2006 p.71 Rolling Stone
"Tobin Bell makes Jigsaw, the clue-dropping killer, a classic." 11/30/2006 p.100 San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
The people who thought up the plot to "Saw II" are much, much sicker than you and me. Imagine that the Zodiac killer took over as executive producer of "Fear Factor," and you might understand the level of suffering in this movie -- which makes the typical Wes Craven film look like "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"...There's a big twist that comes off totally false, in a movie that already stretched its credibility to the brink in the first 88 minutes. It doesn't ruin "Saw II," which is still an above-average slasher film. But fans of this kind of movie should be able to enjoy the mayhem without feeling as if they'd been victimized themselves. - Peter Hartlaub
Variety 7 of 10
Cooking up new Rube Goldberg torture contraptions isn't enough to get "Saw II" out of the shadow of its unnerving predecessor. The notion of victims killing themselves while trying to get free from traps set by an evil genius took "Saw" beyond cult hit status to $100 million in worldwide B.O., but new pic lets the air out by divulging the startling mystery that concluded the original...While "Saw" dropped viewers into a puzzling setting that the chained victims gradually made sense of through flashbacks, "Saw II" strides down what appears to be a straight narrative line, but is nevertheless bogged down in various genre traps of its own. - Robert Koehler
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