Saw V (2008)

You Won't Believe How It Ends

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Release Date: Oct 23, 2008
Rated: R | Runtime: 95 Mins | Language: English
Director: David Hackl
Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Mark Rolston, Julie Benz, Carlo Rota

Summary

Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.

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Saw V (2008) - Movie Review

What to Expect

Saw 5 is about a group of new Jigsaw victims and a continued investigation to catch who's behind it. So basically it's Saw, Saw 2, Saw 3 and Saw 4. It opens up with a guy strapped to a table with a giant pendulum swinging above his belly. The only way out is to voluntarily crush his hands to a pulp. He does, it doesn't work, something's up. Cut to FBI Agent Strahm trying to break out of the room that Lt. Hoffman locked him in at the end of Saw 4. He finally gets out, only to find a new game that has his name written all over it.

Jigsaw is dead, his sidekick Amanda is dead, and now his second sidekick is setting up another guy. This is starting to feel seriously repetitive. Jigsaw also seems to be running out of people who need to learn lessons. The franchise started out making sense, but now he's torturing guys who are angry after losing kids to drunk drivers and cops who are too eager to help people. I wonder what Agent Strahm's goin Read more...

Saw 5 has the usual group of people forced to play Jigsaw's games, but it's also about Strahm's investigation to figure out what's up with Hoffman, who he rightfully suspects to be a Jigsaw sidekick.

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Critic Reviews:

So overall, this is a waste of time and money. Really, I guess the tagline should be “You won’t believe you just wasted your money”, because I sure couldn’t.

– HNN

Let's be clear though: this is all "good" in the relative sense that this is still a Saw film.

– Alternet Ending

While definitely not among the upper tier of the series, Saw V isn't too bad.

– DeviantArt