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 plot bounces back and forth from the beginning of their relationship to the present, as Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) delves farther into the case. As I watched this I realized something is missing? I believe this started to fast not enough story on jigsaws death and it imedeatly went into the torcher mode. wish there was more story in the other series. But still a great movie..would recommend to anyone who likes the saw series... {Mrs puman}Read full review
In as much as Hollywood would have to admit that there is only a very slim clientele for these types of films, the genre continues to attract the curious. After four years of running in the Halloween weekends, it finally fell off the top 4 list of films that made the box office top list. That being said, the audience finally got a fill of this type of insanity. This film, not falling off the list at a better time, has represented a period of time when people would rather see blood on the screen rather than dance with death at the hands of justice. During the period of time where justice was due, but never solved, based on the 9/11 crisis, people wanted to justify seeing violence on the screen, but not on the streets of Iraq or Afghanistan. Nevertheless, there are still many audiences out there who outwardly oppose everything the Saw series stands for; that involving torturous blood and gore, the message it sends to our society about immoral behavior, and the quixotic snapshots of people being trapped and mutilated (in some fashion) in sheer and utter horror. This kind of entertainment would never had been filmed even 20 years ago in an unrated world. The sheer possibility that going from then, which is easily blown off as just some tacky horror movie sequel, in general, to the mainstream film based on psycho thrillers, really blows the average viewer for a loop when they first set foot into this type of film. Yet, having said this, my first reaction to this film is as expected. The story blows sheer stupidity as did the first film. Let's just be real. The first film was, without a shadow of a doubt, enough to curdle your blood for life. The rest of the films were mainly there to convince you that you were a serial psycho bent on seeing someone tortured. Typically, as I have been witness to many films of this horror genre and what it has to offer in terms of entertainment, so far this year I can safely say that, while Saw V is, by no means a masterpiece, nor as significant as its first production, it still beats out most of the competition by quite some distance. As you well know, Saw wouldn't be Saw without its morally challenging undercurrent squirming underneath all the corpses and violence, and in this regard, number 5 does well to incorporates the same subtext. ********************** Extreme Spoiler ****************** There are several primary flaws in this film that deserve mentioning. Firstly, there didn't seem to be any main character driving the film forward. Also as well, the script was extremely flimsy in trying to convince the audience that a detective of 22 years (Hoffman) would ever actually turn into the guy he was trying to catch. Another major complaint that I had was most of the short cuts of the film was just reaction shots from various players with little to no meaningful dialog. Even when Jigsaw captured Hoffman and scared him into becoming his accomplice, the dialogue was quite unbelievable. Straham's narration was quite distracting and out of character with the film. With everything else going on, it became quite evident that trying so hard to tie all the tiny pieces of story-line together was enough to break or choke anyone's neck regardless of what crazy box someone in this film was trying to drown or saw off someone's stupid head. I honestly didn't get the fact that Hoffman and his partner were two different people after the editing which really confused me after viewing.Read full review
We really enjoyed the first couple SAW movies, and kind of lost some interests as new ones were introduced. With SAW V, we give it an AVERAGE RATING. It lost our attention a few times throughout the movie, but as always, it offered some really cool gore scenes. The creativity is still A PLUS, while the acting cast rated just about AVERAGE. Not a movie to HOOT & HOLLAR over, but a must if you want to complete your SAW Collection. Our Overall Rating: 6 out ot 10 Rent It or Buy It? We say RENT IT first, or buy it if you own all of the other four. Please VOTE BELOW if you found this Review HELPFUL. By Voting below, CLICK YES, and let us know that this Review helped you in your buying/renting decision. We write all of our Reviews with YOU in mind. We try to help out anywhere we can. We have over 200 other Reviews on eBay, so be sure to check them out if you get the chance! THANKS for stopping by eBay's Reviews & Guides!!Read full review
Thumbs up: 1. the logical plot 2. the morals of working together as a team in face of impending doom..and 3. Jigsaw's yet-to-be ended legacy Thumbs down: 1. terrible acting (of some of the movie's victims)...and 2. what the hell is in that box that Jigsaw gave to his ex-wife? Saw V...the unveiling...this movie is basically the unveiling of every twists and mysteries of the past 4 Saw movies. This could have ended the franchise's good run at the box -office but then again, like it's predecessors, Saw V's conclusion didn't quite end it all. With the good-guy-turned-out-to-be-the-accomplice was spared of death, it looks like Saw VI is just lurking around. The question is, who are the next targets? I'm looking forward to the next chapter...
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