The first one was absolute crap. I'm not saying that because I didn't have the stomach for it either. I'm not nearly that squeamish. It was just flat-out a bad movie. Poor directing. Bad writing. Lazy filmmaking.

It's not even good as a "torture porn" or exploitative movie (which I don't even mind - I actually liked Hostel a bit and Saw was good till they ran it into the ground). But this was just horrible.

The entire premise idiotic. To make it worse, the director tries to be serious and artsy about it. Ultimate fail. It's not even nearly as boundary-pushing and controversial as people make it out to be. Of course, that's the only reason people talk about it and the only reason it gets any recognition. All cause of one scene really. The rest is just idiotic nonsense done for shock value. Strip that away and it's actually fairly cliche in its storytelling and execution.

Trust me. Don't waste your time with the first one. And especially this second one since it seems to just regurgitate the exact some ingredients just on a bigger scale.