Saw V (2008)
Average Rating: 2.9/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 64
If its plot were as interesting as its torture devices, or its violence less painful than its performances, perhaps Saw V might not feel like it was running on fumes.
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 14
If its plot were as interesting as its torture devices, or its violence less painful than its performances, perhaps Saw V might not feel like it was running on fumes.
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Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) might be dead, but his traps live on in this fifth Saw entry, which finds the series' production designer David Hackl at the helm for his debut directing gig. Costas Mandylor reprises his role as Hoffman, the detective whose involvement in the string of grisly murders turns out to be more than meets the eye. Picking up where the fourth entry left off, Hoffman is revealed to be a hidden accomplice in Jigsaw's grisly games of death, which look to be continued by the lawman. The
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Tobin Bell
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Julie Benz
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Meagan Good
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Betsy Russell
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Mark Rolston
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All Critics (76) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (66) | DVD (9)
Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.
Top CriticEven the most die-hard of Saw fans won't credit how tedious, lame and pointless this fourth sequel manages to be.
Saw V isn't anywhere close to the best Saw movie, but it makes the entire series coalesce a little bit better.
Woefully ponderous, convoluted and improbable.
Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes 'ka-ching!'
The latest and least of the Saw films is just plain boring and even a little tame -- albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase "torture porn" into the lexicon.
The best thing about this-and any-Saw film is the sick production design. Whoever's responsible for creating these disgustingly grungy chambers of death deserves an Oscar for scuzziness.
See you next year, I guess. Sigh.
Será que os fãs da série não percebem que o conceito dos flashbacks e de mexer com a cronologia dos capítulos anteriores é uma forma encontrada pelos produtores para que possam refazer o original de novo e de novo e de novo?
A disappointing film that breaks all of the series' own rules.
Saw V? You'll wish you hadn't.
This is definitely the worst film of the series, and probably the worst horror film I've seen all year.
An insult to fourth-rate ripoffs of Se7en, and even that may not be harsh enough.
Being the fifth annual go-round for this durable splatter franchise, this film has really no power to change any minds.
...hardcore fans of Jigsaw's exploits will probably find something here worth embracing.
A cut above its pretentious predecessors; the graphic set-pieces -- including an opening inspired by Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' -- deliver the gory goods.
Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV
Saw V or High School Musical 3? Make your choice. All of a sudden, picking between self-mutilation and disembowelment doesn't sound so frightening, does it?
Saw V may still have the power to make audiences squirm, but only for the most obvious reasons.
Nails? Where else but in a Saw movie can a puzzle-minded sadist cobble together elaborate torture contraptions from the same Home Depot that provides his replacement windows and his garage storage solution?
Audience Reviews for Saw V
Super Reviewer
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- Mallick: My god it's a hook!
- Brit: Just stick it in the head, God-dammit!
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- Charles: Relax!
- Mallick: I am fucking relaxed!
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- Luba: What did you do?
- Brit: You go first.
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- Jigsaw/John: I am the man you call 'Jigsaw.'
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- Hoffman: You didn't see the blood! You didn't see what he fucking did to her!
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- Jigsaw/John: If you're good at anticipating the human mind, it leaves nothing to chance.
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Foreign Titles
- Saw 5 (FR)
yet more weird and wonderful traps of torture and death but some are getting slightly unimaginative these days. The plot twists n turns like a slippery eel and includes plenty of flashbacks referring to the previous flicks and shows how 'Jigsaw' did stuff. Kinda interesting but to be honest I have forgotten what happened in all of the last 3 films (I only remember the first films plot line really) so this makes this fifth film hard to follow haha.
Lets be honest here...the films thing is gruesome traps, thats why we are here, and to be honest (again) as said they are good but getting less visionary. The best being a really wincing blood letting test near the end for a woman and man and the final trap being REALLY nasty for the pursuing cop...but you don't see the whole sick outcome as the this is where the film ends very abruptly..shame.
Not bad but getting atad too long in the tooth now, it should end.