42
Entertainment Weekly
The production values have become so horror-movie shoddy that Saw V has more in common with kitsch like "Friday the 13th Part V" than the original "Saw."
Saw V
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- United States,
- Canada
- 2008
- · 95m
Director
David Hackl
Cast
Tobin Bell,
Costas Mandylor,
Scott Patterson,
Betsy Russell,
Julie Benz,
Meagan Good
Genre
Horror,
Thriller,
Crime
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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40
Film Threat
This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget.
40
L.A. Weekly
The method to the madness of the traps turns out to be quite clever, but the rewriting of Saw mythology is the slasher equivalent of revising Star Wars so that Greedo fires at Han Solo first.
30
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Truly, the greatest torture of all is boredom.
25
USA Today by Claudia Puig
Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.
25
The A.V. Club by Nathan Rabin
Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode.
20
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
By-the-numbers retread.
20
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.
10
The New York Times by Nathan Lee
Skips back and forth in time, trying to piece together who did what, when and why. The only question really worth asking here: Who cares?
10
Los Angeles Times
A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current.
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