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

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

Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull.

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

Even the most die-hard of Saw fans won't credit how tedious, lame and pointless this fourth sequel manages to be.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 27, 2008

The Saw series isn't nearly as interesting without Jigsaw, but it's getting harder and harder to find ways to include him in increasingly-desperate sequels.

Full Review | Oct 27, 2008

Saw V isn't anywhere close to the best Saw movie, but it makes the entire series coalesce a little bit better.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 27, 2008

Woefully ponderous, convoluted and improbable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 27, 2008

Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes 'ka-ching!'

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 27, 2008

The latest and least of the Saw films is just plain boring and even a little tame -- albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase "torture porn" into the lexicon.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 27, 2008

Deadly traps may remain the bread and butter of the Saw series, but the real trick has become keeping these fetid sequels moderately fresh.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 24, 2008

The periodic traps set for five new victims, all linked by a rotten real-estate deal, are neither as terrifying nor as yucky as in the earlier films. The only real horror in these scenes, in fact, is the jaw-droppingly bad acting on display.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2008

The creatives behind the franchise clearly have taken pride in their stylistic consistency throughout the series, but here they even fail to deliver enough of the cleverly gruesome Rube Goldberg torture devices that are its raison d'etre.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2008

Saw V is dead on the table.

| Original Score: C- | Oct 24, 2008

The driving force is inertia and commercial calculation, not inspiration.

| Original Score: D | Oct 24, 2008

Thank goodness Lionsgate made another Saw film! Otherwise, how would we as a country get to feel good about ourselves while watching humans suffer through prolonged torture, degradation and death?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 24, 2008

It's not a good sign when watching someone stick their hand into a table saw is easier than listening to them recite dialogue.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008

The torture devices, once so fiendishly adapted to each offender, have become generic excuses to spatter gore. The script is insultingly lazy, and inept direction from newcomer David Hackl hardly helps.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 24, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 24, 2008

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Oct 24, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2008