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Soulful Baker: From Highly Creative Fruit Tarts and Pies to Chocolate, Desserts and Weekend Brunch

Julie Jones and Lisa Linder

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Baking became a form of therapy for Julie when her mother, who taught her to bake, was diagnosed...

The Fragrant Pharmacy: A Home and Health Care Guide to Aromatherapy and Essential Oils

Valerie Ann Worwood

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"The Fragrant Pharmacy" opens the way to a whole world of fresh possibilities. It is a new approach...

LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Saw II (2005) in Movies

Oct 3, 2020

Saw II (2005)

2005 | Horror, Mystery

6.7

(23 Ratings)

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Out of the slew of sequels that followed in the wake of the success of the first film, Saw II is easily the most watchable.

Everything is upped - more blood, more victims, more absurd traps for them to escape from - but it succeeds where the other sequels miserably failed, keeping it all fairly reigned in for the most part, assuring that the plot carries a substantial amount of intrigue, instead of getting buried under gratuitous torture.

We get to see more Tobin Bell this time around, which is certainly a good thing. His increased presence as antagonist Jigsaw is a high point of the movie. Donnie Wahlberg and Shawnee Smith have a little more to do in the franchise going forward, but the rest of the cast are hugely dull and forgettable, obvious cannon fodder for Jigsaws' games.

The various traps are imaginative without going overboard as well, and are effective - the pit of syringes, the pig carcasses, and especially the lockbox with wrist slicing blades, are all pretty memorable without throwing heaps of gore at the viewer.

Saw II is a half decent follow up to the great original. You could happily watch the first two and not bother with any of the others, and still be suitably satisfied, unless, like me, you're a glutton for punishment.