It’s all very anonymous and detached, furthering the “torture porn” categorization of these movies.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 5, 2023

With few of the series' blackly comedic traps and the lack of any real plot twist, Saw V is the first entry that feels truly dull.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2021

Sometimes, I hate Hollywood.

| Original Score: 0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

I will say this for Saw V, this film is less concerned with gore and more concerned with story than any of its predecessors. Unfortunately, the story is just a series of convoluted flashbacks designed to rework the happenings of the previous four films.

| Original Score: D | Oct 15, 2019

There's heartwarming cooperation and redemption, but also vicious backstabbing, and it makes for the best murder-house dynamic in the franchise.

| Oct 27, 2017

Everything Saw V shoots at us is something we've seen before, but to a lesser extent.

| Oct 11, 2017

The best thing about this-and any-Saw film is the sick production design. Whoever's responsible for creating these disgustingly grungy chambers of death deserves an Oscar for scuzziness.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 15, 2013

See you next year, I guess. Sigh.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Será que os fãs da série não percebem que o conceito dos flashbacks e de mexer com a cronologia dos capítulos anteriores é uma forma encontrada pelos produtores para que possam refazer o original de novo e de novo e de novo?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 17, 2010

A disappointing film that breaks all of the series' own rules.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2009

Saw V? You'll wish you hadn't.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 1, 2009

This is definitely the worst film of the series, and probably the worst horror film I've seen all year.

| Original Score: D- | Feb 11, 2009

An insult to fourth-rate ripoffs of Se7en, and even that may not be harsh enough.

| Original Score: F | Jan 20, 2009

Being the fifth annual go-round for this durable splatter franchise, this film has really no power to change any minds.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 30, 2008

...hardcore fans of Jigsaw's exploits will probably find something here worth embracing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 15, 2008

A cut above its pretentious predecessors; the graphic set-pieces -- including an opening inspired by Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' -- deliver the gory goods.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2008

Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 31, 2008

Saw V or High School Musical 3? Make your choice. All of a sudden, picking between self-mutilation and disembowelment doesn't sound so frightening, does it?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 31, 2008

Saw V may still have the power to make audiences squirm, but only for the most obvious reasons.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 31, 2008