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Saw V
2008
Jigsaw's deadly game continues in the fifth film of the Saw franchise. Agent Perez, the last detective to play through Jigsaws grizzly games, has been captured. After the events of Saw IV, officer Rigg is after Hoffman but doesnt know there is a new piece to the puzzle he must decifier before its too late... Read more
| Starring | Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell |
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| Director | David Hackl |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
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Saw V
Jigsaw's deadly game continues in the fifth film of the Saw franchise. Agent Perez, the last detective to play through Jigsaws grizzly games, has been captured. After the events of Saw IV, officer Rigg is after Hoffman but doesnt know there is a new piece to the puzzle he must decifier before its too late...
| Starring | Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Samantha Lemole, Carlo Rota, Julie Benz, Greg Bryk, Laura Gordon, Meagan Good |
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| Director | David Hackl |
| Studio | LIONSGATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 28 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Hot Hits |
| Genres | Horror, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Released | DVD: 09 Mar 2009 Blu-ray: 09 Mar 2009 Production year: 2008 |
| Format | DVD |
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You wont believe how it ends, proclaim the posters for the latest Saw movie. Its a good strap-line,... read more on Time Out
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61 out of 62 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
THEY'VE REPLACED THE TRAPS WITH KITTENS AND FLOWERS!!!
Nah, not really... PHEW! Instead David Hackl, production designer on the previous SAW installments and man in charge of the traps, gets in the director's chair and ups the ante. The result? More traps! Nastier traps!
The absence of Leigh Wannell, who kicked off the series together with James Wan and has been at least co-writing until now, might have suggested a slackening of the plot. Luckily, Hackl's own fondness of the series has prevented this from happening. This is, simply put, more of the same. The loose ends of Saw IV get followed up, background plot is developed and explored while the new bunch of victims fight their way through a series of gruesome puzzles, twists ensuing in due course. The cast are watchable as always, with Tobin Bell as Jigsaw true to form and Scott Patterson and Julie Benz as capable additions.
So, time to wrap it up then? Not quite yet, number 6 is in the pipeline already. To the serie's credit it has to be said though that the quality of each installment is consistent, with SAW IV and V closer to the original's standard than the second and third helping.
No, there is nothing new here, but then originality was cast off with the decision to franchise. For those who enjoy the SAW movies as parts of a saga, this is just the ticket.
Gore, gore and more gore and still not for the faint hearted or easily rattled, this is SAW at its best.
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- hunkydomste from Liverpool
- Posted 24 Oct 2008 17:06
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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Good film if you have not paid for the ticket.
I was getting pretty excited about this movie purely because the story had followed on since the beginning and that interests me a lot so that was a good start in my book. As you would expect it starts off with a game which everyone is going to clearly love because that is what it's primarily down to and it's nice to see how creative they can be in having different variations.
Unfortunately it goes downhill from this point onwards. The great thing about previous Saw films was that the main character was always someone who lost something or who had a terrible experience and Jigsaw would lead them to a path of redemption in a twisted, sick way. None of this was evident, it seemed to slightly focus more on a detective story which is good if the character is someone you really care for but Agent Strahm is not a good character that I care for and his sections are really boring and it was somehow a great idea to let him describe the revelations out loud to himself (just in case the audience didn't understand).
Secondly, the final 5 victims of the Jigsaw games before being taken over by Hoffman are so uninteresting and the reason for their victimisation is so feeble that he might as well prey on someone who steals a Double Decker from a toddler, and can someone please explain to me why on earth every woman that appears in these films no matter what their character is has to be attractive? David Hackl needs to realise that there are ugly women on Earth as well.
Thirdly, it is all over the place. I did like the pieces fitting together with regards to Hoffman but there was too much going on for the film to flow smoothly.
Fourthly, there could be a sixth installment coming and they have took it too far already. Very risky and it will probably be worse than this one and that is saying something. -
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Saw V
- 28 Oct 2008
You have to give credit to the Saw team: five films in five years from a standing start, they’re fast and they’re efficient. Coming in to this hit horror franchise at this late stage is a bit like starting The Da Vinci Code on the penultimate chapter – there’s a lot of catching up to do. On the other hand, as the movie spends a lot of its 88 minute running time explaining itself, it’s by no means impossible. I’ve avoided the previous Saw movies because, well, Read more
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