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Year One
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Saw V
Overwhelming dislike
Based on 12 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 106 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Crime | Horror | Mystery | Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Patrick Melton
Marcus Dunstan
Directed by: David Hackl
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 24, 2008
DVD: January 20, 2009
Running Time: 88 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, language and brief nudity
Starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell, Carlo Rota, and Julie Benz
In the fifth installment of the SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends. (Lionsgate)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Saw Saw II Saw III Saw IV Saw VI
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Scott Mendelson
This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Jeremy Wheeler
It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times 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?
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 106 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Chris K. gave it a7:
Are these movies starting to get disgusting and to similar.
Tim E gave it a0:
I've seen all the Saw movies and this one was really weak. The plot was sort of nothing, the "game" itsself was really short. I think this series is done.
daniel daniel gave it a0:
saw is the most disgusting thing ever,how can any of you saw saw 1-4 are the best is it nice watching others get tortured, i know it is only a movie but a movie represents something i am not saying dont watch em but still you cant say they give you anything you to learn
mauricio l. gave it a6:
Ok , if u have seen all the others u have to see this one ,. i really liked it. and it really gives a concluicion to all of the otthers.
Jay H gave it a3:
Unpleasant people doing extremely unpleasant things. My, what fun! Extremely gory and nasty, not much of a plot. The acting is fair. Pointless.
Jessica S. gave it a2:
At first I was a big Saw fan as i enjoy gory horror films, and i like all of the games throughout the films. This Saw went so far away from the first movie it was unbelievable, After all when you go to watch a horror you do expect blood, all there was in this was one game which was crap, a plot that jumped around from 1 saw to another throughout it made you feel dizzy and a ending which was a total let down, i mean i love saw 1 but it has now got terribly numb.
Sawno M. gave it a0:
Saw 1 and 3 were great, (i personally prefer three) saw 2 was alright, but saw 4 was pretty bad. by saw 4 they were making shit up and production values were getting lower. But by saw five... well lets just say it was MORTIFYING.
