Saw II

Year:

2005

Duration:

93 min | 95 min (unrated version)

Genres:

Horror | Mystery

IMDB rate:

6.6

Director:

Darren Lynn Bousman

Awards:

2 wins & 7 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2005-10-28

Filming Locations: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Earnings

Budget: $4,000,000

Opening Weekend: $31,725,652 (USA) (30 October 2005)

Gross: $87,025,093 (USA) (1 January 2006)

Cast

Actor

Character

Emmanuelle Vaugier

Saw II

Tobin Bell

Jigsaw

Shawnee Smith

Amanda Young

Donnie Wahlberg

Eric Matthews

Erik Knudsen

Daniel Matthews

Franky G

Xavier Chavez

Glenn Plummer

Jonas Singer

Beverley Mitchell

Laura Hunter

Tim Burd

Obi Tate

Dina Meyer

Detective Allison Kerry

Lyriq Bent

Daniel Rigg

Noam Jenkins

Michael Marks

Tony Nappo

Gus Colyard

Kelly Jones

SWAT Member Pete

Vincent Rother

SWAT Member Joe

Linette Doherty

Mother in Cancer Ward

Gretchen Helbig

Nurse in Cancer Ward

Kofi Payton

Boy in Cancer Ward

John Fallon

Video Techie

Ho Chow

Security Officer

Conrad Coates

Additional Voice Talent (voice)

James Gallanders

Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Sam Malkin

Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Robin Ward

Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Did you know?

Trivia

A few of the traps actually worked: the Venus fly trap could close, turning the key could shoot the gun, and the blades in the razor box could cut you if they were metal.

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It can be inferred that Amanda and Daniel never needed an antidote; toward the end of the movie, while everybody else is coughing and becoming impaired, Amanda and Daniel never even breathe hard or show confusion.

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at around 1h 8 mins) The "hand trap" containing the syringe actually has a padlock with a key in it; you can see it out of focus at the top of the screen when Addison puts her hands into the trap. The filmmakers deliberately included this as a way of showing that Jigsaw knew the characters would rush in without checking the trap for a simple solution.

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Goofs

(at around 50 mins) When Xavier opens the door to the Syringe Pit, it shows a very short clip showing the timer on the door for the antidote. If you slow the clip down, you will see that the timer shows '4:00', in the next scene it shows '2:58'.

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(at around 1h 9 mins) In the hand razor trap scene, when Addison puts her hands in and Xavier has entered the room, blood is suddenly all over her hands, while when she put them in they were practically clean from blood. There is no way blood can cover her hands like that just by getting stuck like that.

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(at around 51 mins) When Xavier is trying to open the door/vault that was timed 4 minutes, there is no number at the back of his neck.

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Quotes

Jonas: What the fuck is a Obi?

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Addison: [Trying to open a door] It's stuck on something.

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John: You all possess the combination to the safe. Think hard. The numbers are in the back of your minds. The clue to their order can be found over the rainbow.

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Faq

Q

How could Jigsaw have known about Eric Matthews' corruption, since they never met before?

A

This movie gives no definite answer to that question, other than that Jigsaw has enlisted the help of Obi in finding and kidnapping the other victims before becoming one himself. Perhaps Obi told Jigsaw about how Matthews had once framed him, but there is little reason to assume that Obi would know the exact details of the other people that Matthews had framed. Maybe Jigsaw had paid other people to provide the information, just as he enlisted Adam from the first movie to get information about Dr. Gordon.

Q

What is the body count?

A

Michael Marks, SWAT Member #1, SWAT Member #2, Gus Colyard, Obi Tate, Jonas Singer, Laura Hunter, Addison Corday, and Xavier Chavez. Detective Eric Matthews' fate is left open.

Q

What is Detective Matthews' sin?

A

Matthews' sin is that he is corrupt and brutal. He has framed people for crimes they hadn't committed, and manipulated justice by shooting unarmed suspects. He is also a failure as a father and husband; he had an affair with Detective Kerry (Dina Meyer) that cost him his marriage, and he is not there for his son. He easily meets Jigsaw's criteria for someone who does not appreciate what he has. So Matthews' game is psychological in nature: the 'trap' is that he has to play by the rules for a change, by watching his son suffer among people who have a grudge against him. He needs to sit and let the game play out, against his nature of interfering with and manipulating the normal course of things.

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