Critic Reviews
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Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
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."
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LA Weekly
Luke Y. Thompson
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.
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Film Threat
Scott Mendelson
This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget.
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TV Guide
Jeremy Wheeler
It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.
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Austin Chronicle
Truly, the greatest torture of all is boredom.
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USA Today
Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.
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The Onion (A.V. Club)
Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode.
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New York Daily News
This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.
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The Hollywood Reporter
By-the-numbers retread.
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Boston Globe
Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"
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Los Angeles Times
Sam Adams
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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The New York Times
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?
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