Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.
The latest installment in the torture-porn franchise is plodding, ponderous and even convoluted.
Sitting through it is torture of the worst cinematic kind. No amount of distraction in the form of spraying blood or severed limbs can lessen the blunt-force trauma of all the terrible performances.
It's almost as if it is written in the contracts to act as badly as possible, so as not to upstage the blood or decapitated heads.
Scott Patterson, so likable in TV's Gilmore Girls, wastes his talents returning as FBI Agent Strahm...
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 ens...
Saw V Jigsaw continues to wreak havoc from beyond the grave
When the producers of Saw III needed to replicate the jigsaw killer's bathroom from the first film, they knew exactly where to turn: Scary Movie 4, which had already built a near-identical set for their movie spoof. It's entirely fitting. The Saw franchise is now virtually indistinguishable from the Scary Movie series. Except the former has better jokes.
If you've wound up here, this far down the trail, you're almost certainly familiar with the sprawling backstory, as interlaced as any prime-time soap, so let's cut very brutally and without anaesthetic to the chase. Number five picks up immediately where the previo...
When the producers of Saw III needed to replicate the jigsaw killer's bathroom from the first film, they knew exactly where to turn: Scary Movie 4, which had already built a near-identical set for their movie spoof. It's entirely fitting. The Saw franchise is now virtually indistinguishable from the Scary Movie series. Except the former has better jokes.
If you've wound up here, this far down the trail, you're almost certainly familiar with the sprawling backstory, as interlaced as any prime-time soap, so let's cut very brutally and without anaesthetic to the chase. Number five picks up immediately where the previous sequel left off, with detec...
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