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• Tagline: Oh yes...there will be blood.

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Detective Eric Matthews has caught the Jigsaw killer and is looking to put a stop to his current game, already in progress. That game includes a house where unlucky participants are imprisoned and forced to kill each other in brutal ways while a series of video cameras capture the killings. What Matthews doesn't realize is that the game is unfolding right in front of him...

The film starts off with a man waking up in a chair, alone in a grungy room, with a device around his neck. The device has a wire attached to it. A TV turns to show the figure of a "clown" sculpture - Jigsaw. He tells the man that this is his punishment for being a police informant, spying upon and betraying others, and for not appreciating life. The device around the man's neck is attached to a timer. Once time expires the device will close, crushing the man's head with sharp nails attached to the inside of the device. A segment of the video is shown where the informant is lying on an operating table. Jigsaw shows him that the key to unlock the device has been implanted in his eye. A knife has been left for the man to carve the key out from his eye socket if he chooses to do so. The man fails to extract the key and dies as a result of the device.

Detective Matthews is called on scene because the deceased was supposed to be his informant and there happens to be a note to Matthews on the ceiling. The note reads, "Look Closer, Detective Matthews." After first refusing to take the case at the request of his former partner, Kerry, Matthews realizes that he knows where Jigsaw is - the Wilson Steel building.

Matthews finds the Jigsaw killer in his factory. Very ill due to the cancer that he is dying from, Jigsaw is frail and is connected to an IV. The SWAT team apprehends the Jigsaw killer and handcuffs him.

In response to the officers attempt to take him away, Jigsaw tells Matthews and the others that they should worry about what's in the adjoining room. The officers uncover a table to reveal several monitors. Through these monitors, Matthews realizes that Jigsaw has gathered another group to his torture house, including Matthews's son Daniel and Amanda, the person from the original film who was the only person ever to "beat" Jigsaw's game.

The captives learn they are breathing in a nerve gas that will kill them within two hours. There are antidotes hidden throughout the house.

Gus is the first to die. Taking a key marked "Do not use this key to open the door," Gus turns a lock that he thinks will let him out of the initial room. Instead, it fires a gun, shooting him through the eye and killing him.(Note: Xavier is the one who turns the key. Gus looks through the eyepiece while Xavier turns the key and the gun fires into Gus' brain, killing him.)

The door does eventually open and the captives begin to explore the house. Laura finds a door which leads to the basement. Here, they find another tape, this one marked for Obi, explaining how he had helped Jigsaw kidnap Laura. Obi goes into a furnace to retrieve two syringes of the antidote. While in the furnace, the door closes and the furnace ignites. Obi is burned alive with none of the captives getting the antidote.

The Jigsaw killer wants to speak to Matthews alone. Matthews keeps his CB on so the team can hear what they are talking about. The Jigsaw killer tells Matthews that he likes to be called John as Jigsaw is the name the media gave to him. John tells Matthews to go along with the rules and just talk to him. All the while, a timer is ticking away in the room with the monitors.

Entering another room, the captives find another tape, this one marked for Xavier. Jigsaw condemns him for his life as a drug pusher and states that if he wants to escape, he must wallow in the filth that he made others wallow in. Daniel pulls back a sheet to reveal a pit full of syringes. The tape tells Xavier that there is a key in the pit that will open a door that Jigsaw claims to be the exit from the house. It is assumed that Xavier is the one who must go into the pit to find the key but he instead grabs Amanda and throws her into the pit. Stabbed with dozens of needles, Amanda searches through the pit and finds the key. Xavier races to the lock but his fumbling with the key allows time to expire and seal the door forever. Daniel helps Amanda out of the pit.

After growing tired of playing John's games and watching one captive after another die, Matthews finally snaps and unleases his rage on the cancer-ridden old man. After thrashing John across the room, John says, "Game over," and finally agrees to tell Matthews where the house is.

Meanwhile, in the house, Xavier has snapped and is trying the kill his fellow captives to retrieve the numbers written on the back of their necks (the answer to Jigsaw's riddle "You all possess the combination. It's all in the back of your mind."). These numbers are supposed to be the combination to the safe in the first room which holds an antidote. He kills Jonas and then goes after the others.

Addison finds a picture of Daniel and Matthews together and realizes that Daniel is the son of the cop who put her in prison. It turns out that Matthews is the one who put all those in the house in prison, many times with planted or false evidence. Addison wanders off after Laura dies from the nerve gas. Amanda finds the dead Jonas and goes back to rescue Daniel. The two are then chased by Xavier.

While trying to hunt down Amanda and Daniel, Xavier comes across Addison who has fallen victim to a contraption - a glass box containing a syringe that, though you can stick your arms in, you cannot take them back out due to the knives that dig into your flesh. He quickly reads her number and leaves her to die in the contraption.

Matthews goes against the orders of his team and takes John in a van to the house. Almost immediately after this, the tech team locates the broadcast location of the video feed and takes off to reach the house. Once at the house, John gives Matthews the key to get inside. When Matthews gets inside he finds the dead bodies of the victims littered throughout the rooms.

Amanda and Daniel, while trying to keep Xavier from catching them in the initial room, realize that there is an exit below the safe. They move the safe and then go through the hatch. Xavier follows them. He corners them in the bathroom from the first movie which is at the end of the corridor. The bodies of Adam and Zep from the first film are still there and have rotted over with fungus and mold. Amanda tells Xavier that Daniel is dead and that if he kills her, he won't ever know what number is on his neck. Xavier, now insane from the poison, takes his knife and slices the number off his neck. He then moves in to kill Amanda. Daniel suddenly jumps forward, crushing Xavier's ankle and, using the hacksaw from the first movie, slits Xavier's throat, killing him.

While the SWAT team is raiding the house, Kerry is watching the monitors. For some reason, the video isn't showing them in the house. The SWAT team soon realizes that, not only were they led to the wrong location, but that what they have been watching for the past few hours is nothing but a recording.

Meanwhile, at the correct location, Matthews goes downstairs to find Daniel. Eventually, he gets into the bathroom but does not see his son. He goes up to the tub and finds someone he thinks may be his son. Without warning, the person leaps up and stabs Matthews in the leg with a syringe. Drugged, Matthews drops to the floor.

The timer in the room at Wilson Steel expires and a safe across the room opens to reveal that Daniel has been locked inside, with an oxygen mask, this whole time. All the time that John was telling Matthews just to talk with him, he knew that Matthews wouldn't be able to wait the time needed for the safe to open and would instead succumb to his violent urges and go to the house.

When Matthews wakes up, he finds an audio cassette player lying next to him. Playing the tape, Matthews learns that Amanda has become John's protege and has now taken his place. It was she who kidnapped Matthews' son and has now imprisoned Matthews in the bathroom. The final thing that Matthews sees is Amanda closing the door on him. "Game over," she says, mirorring Adam's fate in the first movie. Matthews is chained to a pipe and is left in the room alone only with the light from his flashlight and with his gun now just out of reach. John is in the van dead, but smiling.

Analysis

At the end of the film, the viewer comes to realize that Jigsaw's game was not really with the people in the house but with Detective Matthews. John allowed the detective to find him in the beginning, requesting him and leaving him with the clues as to where he was hiding. John told Matthews numerous times that this was a game and that if he simply sat and talked to him, he would find his son in "a safe, secure place" (a hidden hint that Daniel was in fact in the safe in John's room). Had Matthews done this, he would have waited out the timer, retrieved his son, and never entered into Amanda's trap. Daniel himself had no reason to be in the house. Based on John's questions for the detective, Matthews was a prime subject for John's game.

Statistics

• Genres: Suspense/Horror, Thriller.
• Rating: R

Trivia

• In August 2005, the MPAA rejected the poster for Saw II which used two severed fingers to resemble "II" in the movie's title. A new poster was produced, still using the fingers but not explicitly showing that they're severed.

• The entire movie was shot in 25 days.

Similar movies

• Saw II
• Cube
• Seven
• Phone Booth
• Mindhunters

External links

• Saw II at IMDb
• Official website
• Official Fansite