Saw V Details

[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.

disappointed to say the Least

Having bought all the saw series i am an avid fan. I rented this this other night and found it quite boring to be frank.

The story line just wasnt there, you know the ending you know who is doing what and how they are doing it. Ok it helped to answer a few questions from saw 4 and it was good to see Jigsaw a lot in the film but i was very disappointed by the end and my partner and I both sat there and said 'is that it'.

If you are a fan of the others of course you will watch it but watch it with caution that nothin new happens. it has the same level of gore and some new devices but the games were predictable and the characters playing them were quite boring, i didnt really care if they lived or died. In previous saw's i iked the fact you knew why the people were there and the intensity in which they had to complete thier game, this is really lacking from this film. Worth watching only because it is part of the Saw series and answers a few questions.