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LB80

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Still not as good as the first 3 films, but a definate improvement over `Saw IV`

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Posted mar 15, 2009 9:01 pm pt

chloeclover

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Saw V shouldve stopped at Saw ONE! But hey, the film was entertaining enough to finish it atleast. I personally would rather have watched the Omen or even Halloween. If any of you like good horror films than theres this application that is really...
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Saw V shouldve stopped at Saw ONE! But hey, the film was entertaining enough to finish it atleast. I personally would rather have watched the Omen or even Halloween. If any of you like good horror films than theres this application that is really fun. You can watch clips from your favorite horror films and interact with each of them. http://www.dareyoutowatch.com/

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Posted nov 9, 2008 12:43 pm pt

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It was so so.. It was definitely LESS gory than the rest and the traps were less creative than normal. That was its downfall. I loved the storylines though and the character developments. This is probably a very important film for the conclusion...
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It was so so.. It was definitely LESS gory than the rest and the traps were less creative than normal. That was its downfall. I loved the storylines though and the character developments. This is probably a very important film for the conclusion of the series. This just can't be the last one.

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Posted oct 29, 2008 10:42 pm pt

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I like these movies, But I think they over killed in the last one. This one gives you more story which I guess helps in the long run. This one was also gorry then the last couple have been. Well they could stop it here if they wanted to, but they...
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I like these movies, But I think they over killed in the last one. This one gives you more story which I guess helps in the long run. This one was also gorry then the last couple have been. Well they could stop it here if they wanted to, but they left more questions. Whats in the box, will anybody eles find out who the killer is, and not get killed this time. I think the endding was not really that much of a twist. The five that were playing the game, I thought the whole time they only needed one key to unlock them all. I figured out that everybody could live by the last room, because I knew that everybody was going to be involved in the last trap. As soon as he took the phone out of eveidince I knew he was planning to pin everything on the other guy, to make him look like jigsaw. I think he had more then enough time get out of that room before the door closed on him. I thouht this movie was good be nothing really suprised that much like a couple of the other ones did.

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Posted oct 26, 2008 1:32 am pt

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I like these movies, But I think they over killed in the last one. This one gives you more story which I guess helps in the long run. This one was also gorry then the last couple have been. Well they could stop it here if they wanted to, but they...
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I like these movies, But I think they over killed in the last one. This one gives you more story which I guess helps in the long run. This one was also gorry then the last couple have been. Well they could stop it here if they wanted to, but they left more questions. Whats in the box, will anybody eles find out who the killer is, and not get killed this time. I think the endding was not really that much of a twist. The five that were playing the game, I thought the whole time they only needed one key to unlock them all. I figured out that everybody could live by the last room, because I knew that everybody was going to be involved in the last trap. As soon as he took the phone out of eveidince I knew he was planning to pin everything on the other guy, to make him look like jigsaw. I think he had more then enough time get out of that room before the door closed on him. I thouht this movie was good be nothing really suprised that much like a couple of the other ones did.

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Posted oct 26, 2008 1:32 am pt

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Overall the movie was average. The plot was okay and so were the characters; however, the ending wasn't all that great. In the first four, they all had unexpecting endings and they all had a twist to it (John laying was in the room the entire...
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Overall the movie was average. The plot was okay and so were the characters; however, the ending wasn't all that great. In the first four, they all had unexpecting endings and they all had a twist to it (John laying was in the room the entire time, Detective Matthews son was in a safe secure place, the husband and wife, and the new jigsaw). I was confused because I thought in the beginning of Saw 4 that John was in the autopsy room yet in the Saw 5 (not in a flash back) he is back in room that he died in. Also, they never said anything else about jigsaws wife and what was in the box?

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Posted oct 24, 2008 11:19 pm pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  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."

  by Gregory Kirschling | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  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.

  by Luke Y. Thompson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Film Threat
  
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  This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget.

  by Scott Mendelson | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  38
  It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.

  by Jeremy Wheeler | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  30
  Truly, the greatest torture of all is boredom.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  25
  Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
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  Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
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  This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
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  By-the-numbers retread.

  by Frank Scheck | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
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  Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  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.

  by Sam Adams | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  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?

  by Nathan Lee | Read Full Review »