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On a dark road, taxi driver Kyung-chul Choi Min-sik comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over -- but not to help her. Once he finds Kyung-chul, things get twisted. After brutally beating the murderer, Kim lets him go free, and a demented game of cat and mouse begins. Kim Jee-woon. Kim Hyun Woo. Park Hun-jeong. Mar 4, limited. May 10, Magnet Releasing.
Lee Byung-hun Soo-hyun. Choi Min-sik Kyung-chul. Jeon Gook-hwan Capt. Chun Ho-jin Detective Oh. San-ha Oh Ju-yeon. Yoon-seo Kim Se-yeon. Choi Moo-sung Tae-ju. In-seo Kim Se-jung. Kim Jee-woon Director. Park Hun-jeong Screenwriter. Kim Hyun Woo Producer.
Greg Moon Executive Producer. You Jeong-hun Executive Producer. View All Critic Reviews Dec 29, Sanity Assassin! Oct 21, Although sadistic, repulsive and pointless in its subject matter, the approach is strangely stylish and engaging throughout. Not a pleasant experience, but intense and hard to forget. Pierluigi P Super Reviewer. Jan 28, Once the credits start rolling, and you reflect on the film you've just seen, it will be hard to find flaws in 'I Saw the Devil.
Min-sik Choi's's acting is incredible, and Byung-hun Lee is no slouch himself. Quite simply, this film is amazing. Sunny D Super Reviewer. Jan 10, A bold and electrifying new breed of revenge film. A bone-chilling and heart-pounding adrenaline-charged edge of your seat thriller. A frightening masterpiece that is truly a must-see. Director, Ji-woon Kim crafts one of his most accomplished and brilliant films so far. Revenge films don't get more shocking or exhilarating than this.
Byung-hun Lee and Min-sik Choi are absolutely sensational. Choi is sadistically brilliant. Laura succumbs to the nerve agent and dies, after finding the clue revealing Daniel's identity.
Addison and Amanda abandon him, but Amanda returns after finding Jonas' body. Addison finds a glass box containing an antidote, but her arms become trapped in the arm holes which are lined with hidden blades.
Amanda and Daniel find a tunnel in the safe room, which leads to the bathroom from the first film. Daniel collapses inside just before Xavier finds them. Amanda notes that he cannot read his own number, so he skins a piece of the back of his neck off. As he approaches Amanda as an attempt to kill her, Daniel, who feigned his collapse, jumps in the way and slashes his throat with a hacksaw, killing him. Having seen Xavier chasing his son, Eric brutally assaults John and forces him to lead him to the house.
John's sitting area is revealed to be a lift, which they use to leave the factory. The tech team tracks the video's source and Rigg leads his team to a house, where they find VCRs playing previously recorded images. As Kerry realizes the game took place before they found John, the timer expires and a large safe opens, revealing Daniel bound and breathing into an oxygen mask. Eric enters the house alone and eventually locates the bathroom, where he is attacked by a pig-masked figure.
He awakens shackled at the ankle to a pipe, and a tape recorder left by Amanda reveals that she is John's accomplice and intends to continue his work after he dies. Amanda suddenly appears in the doorway, and says 'Game Over' before sealing the door, leaving Eric to die. Saw II was immediately green-lit after Saw ' s successful opening weekend a year earlier.
Music video director Darren Lynn Bousman had just completed a script for his first film The Desperate , and was trying to sell it to studios but was getting reactions that the script was very similar to Saw.
Just as they were looking for a cinematographer, the American cinematographer David A. Armstrong, who had worked on Saw , arrived on the scene and suggested showing the script to Saw producer Gregg Hoffman. After Hoffman showed the script to his partners Mark Burg and Oren Koules, [8] the two decided that The Desperate was the starting script they needed for Saw II and two months later, Bousman was flown to Toronto to direct.
Whannell polished the script, with input from Wan, [9] in order to bring it into the Saw universe, [6] but kept the characters, traps and deaths from The Desperate script.
All the previous film's crew members returned: editor Kevin Greutert, cinematographer Armstrong, and composer Charlie Clouser. This was to be Hoffman's last film. He died unexpectedly on December 4, Only those key cast and crew members who were involved in the film's ending were given the full script; the rest received only the first 88 pages. If a particular page was rewritten, the old page was shredded.
Members were also required to sign confidentiality agreements requiring them not to release any plot details. For instance, instead of only showing the aftermath of a character violently dying in a flashback, they would allow it to unfold as it happened.
This was in contrast to Saw , in which most of the violence was implied off-screen. After two months of pre-production, [10] principal photography took place over 25 days at Toronto's Cinespace Film Studios from May 2, to June 6, It was completely finished by September 9. Digital Pictures and post-production services were provided by Deluxe. David Hackl, the film's production designer, took three weeks to construct 27 sets on a single sound stage. Given the larger budget for the sequel, Billy was upgraded with remote-controlled eyes and a servo-driven mouth.
In order for this to be done safely, four people, over a period of four days, removed the needle tips from syringes and replaced them with fiber optic tips. They modified a total of , fake needles. However, this number was insufficient and the pit had to be filled with styrofoam and other materials to make it appear to have more needles. The needles that were apparently stuck into Smith were actually blunted syringes stuck into padding under her clothing.
For certain shots, a fake arm was used. Bousman came up with an idea whereby a character's hands would get stuck in some sort of vessel and this resulted in the 'Hand Trap'. It proved to be a challenge but after much discussion, Hackl, property master Jim Murray and art director Michele Brady came up with a suitable design.
They arranged a glass box suspended by chains from the ceiling which contained a hypodermic needle with the antidote and which had two hand-holes on the underside. As soon as Vaugier's character Addison put her hands into the holes razor blades would close in on her hands and any attempt to withdraw from the trap would cause her to bleed to death.
In order for the trap to be used safely, the prop builders made the handcuffs move inside the box and fake blades that would retract from the actress's hands, thus allowing her to slide her hands out. Hackl subsequently commented that the character did not have to put her hands into the trap as there was a lock with a key on the other side box that would have opened the contraption. The original idea for the 'Furnace Trap' came from the house having been a crematorium at some point, but this would have involved turning the house into a funeral parlor, so it was instead decided that the furnace would be part of the house's boiler system.
The furnace was visualized in the form of a computer model so that Bousman could better understand how shots could be filmed. Using the computer model as a guide, the furnace was constructed in three days using cement board and tin with removable sides and top so Timothy Burd Obi could be filmed crawling inside. The furnace produced real flames and, in place of Burd, a stunt man using a fire retardant gel crawled into the fire.
The original teaser poster showing two bloody, severed fingers, representing the Roman numeral, II, was rejected by the Motion Picture Association of America.
The DVD debuted as number one selling 2. It went on to sell 3. On October 24, , an Unrated Special Edition was released, while an Unrated Blu-ray edition was also released with various special features on January 23, Dangal worldwide gross revenue breakdownTerritories Gross revenue Footfalls est. Dangal is also the highest-grossing sports film, and Disney's fourth highest-grossing film of OverseasDeadline Hollywood reported that Dangal would open in North American screens, the hitherto highest for a Bollywood film, on 21 December ChinaIn China, a nation where Indian films were rarely shown, it became the highest grossing Indian film.
In its second week, it emerged as the number one film in the country,[][] outselling Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Commercial analysisIndiaDespite the hype created by the film prior to its release, it was not expected to perform very well on two accounts. Aamir Khan's comment in November during the ongoing intolerance debate in India had sparked outrage and backlash from certain sections of people.
Despite his clarification that the statement made was taken out of context and publicized, the criticism, primarily on social media, continued to the extent that prior to the film's release, campaigns calling for boycotting the film began, on ground that Khan was 'anti-national'.
Following the exercise, it was reported that business fell by 60 per cent and that theatres even shut,[] including a few that deciding not to renew their licenses, converted into wedding halls. The earnings of films Dear Zindagi, Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh and Befikre that were released around this time were significantly affected, and their corresponding producers had handed out limited prints to single-screen theatres, to keep losses at a minimum. However, that neither of the two affected the performance of Dangal was evident in that the online ticketing platform BookMyShow hit its fastest one million tickets booked before the release.
An average occupancy of over 60 per cent was reported on the first few days in multiplexes. ChinaDangal performed particularly well in China. This was attributed partly to Khan's popularity in China owing to the success of his previous films 3 Idiots and PK there. However, it was the pirate market that introduced 3 Idiots to most Chinese audiences, becoming a cult hit in the country.
It became China's 12th favourite film of all time, according to ratings on Chinese film review site Douban, with only one domestic Chinese film Farewell My Concubine ranked higher.
Aamir Khan gained a large growing Chinese fanbase as a result. By , China grew to become the world's second largest film market after the United States , paving the way for Aamir Khan's Chinese box office success, with Dhoom 3 , PK, and eventually Dangal.
It was also reported that Chinese audiences could relate to the underlying social theme of Dangal in that it portrayed the success story of sisters in the backdrop of a patriarchal and gender inequal society, much like the conditions inherent in China. On its fourth day, the first Monday, it rose to According to Chinese media, Dangal is one of the highest-rated films on Chinese film sites Douban[][][] and Maoyan,[] which helped the film generate strong word of mouth.
Since Dangal's release in May through to October , it has significantly out-grossed nearly every Hollywood film released in China during that time, with the only exception being Transformers 5. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics, who praised the acting, particularly the performances of Bell and Wahlberg, while criticizing the gruesome nature of the story.
The site's consensus was, 'Saw II is likely to please the gore-happy fans of the original, though it may be too gruesome for those not familiar with first film's premise. Robert Koehler of Variety gave the film a negative review, saying 'cooking up new Rube Goldberg torture contraptions isn't enough to get Saw II out of the shadow of its unnerving predecessor'. He praised Bell's performance as Jigsaw, saying 'As the droopy-lidded maniac in the flesh, Tobin Bell is, for all the film's gewgaws, Saw II 's sturdiest horror, a Terence Stamp look-alike who calls to mind a seedy General Zod lazily overseeing the universe from his evildoer's lair'.
He ended his review: 'Where Saw II lags behind in Saw's novelty, 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'.
He said the story was 'much more focused on an endgame than the original film.
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