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Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: You'll be hard-pressed to find a shred of the perverse ingenuity that made Saw so effectively unnerving. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: No point in labeling this a horror film. This is a sadism film, and while all good and great horror films know what sadism tastes like, a sadism film settles for nothing of lasting, imaginative horror. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: As it was in the first Saw, audiences are faced with insane leaps in logic that sabotage the last part of the film. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Saw fans -- and there are plenty -- will be pleased. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Although not as clever as the original, Saw II takes its cuts. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Saw II is not for the faint of heart. It's for the foolish of wallet. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: For the most part the film succeeds in producing a frightening Halloween weekend experience. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: In a fun house like this the elaborate tortures seem to leave behind the real world of pain and suffering for the realm of slapstick; they're the kind of horrors that make you scream and laugh at the same time. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Even hard-core horror can go too far. Saw II is as punishing as it gets. It's effective, all right, but to what end? Certainly not entertainment. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The contest is close, but Saw II is just barely a better B flick than Saw. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Saw II goes to great lengths to be smart and not just viscerally but intellectually provocative. An admirable ambition, but it just makes the movie even more silly when it fails so utterly in the effort. Read more
Christopher Orr, L.A. Weekly: Saw II repels, morally and aesthetically, and while some -- including the filmmakers, perhaps -- may take this as a compliment, it isn't intended as one. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Saw II -- better-acted than its predecessor, which isn't saying much -- is so gratuitously, sadistically violent, and to such little end, that it finally falls over dead on the far side of obscene. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: At the very least, with Saw II, you get what you pay for. Read more
Laura Kern, New York Times: Saw II, directed by a newcomer, Darren Lynn Bousman, delivers practically humorless frights and hair-raising tension. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Saw II only has one ambition -- to make us squirm. And it does. Just don't be surprised if you need to switch to an electric razor after this. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The serpentine plot is logical; the acting is passable and the film creates a palpable atmosphere of paranoia and tension. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: I saw Saw, I saw Saw II, and I have lived to tell about it. Aren't you glad? Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: Quite possibly Saw II sheds enough blood to satisfy horror aficionados. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Essentially, this is one more movie that, regardless of its setting or even planet, exists to knock off its cast members one by one. Read more
Robert Koehler, Variety: Cooking up new Rube Goldberg torture contraptions isn't enough to get Saw II out of the shadow of its unnerving predecessor. Read more
Benjamin Strong, Village Voice: What's worth noting is how much greater deliberation was given to the marketing than the screenplay of this cursory dud, rushed to theaters exactly a year after its amusing predecessor. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: The most horrifying moment is saved for last: when you realize things have been obviously set up for yet another sequel. Read more