Review of Saw V (2008) by Evan S — 02 Feb 2011

It would have been nice if they had ended at the third one which the Jigsaw killer being killed. Instead, they decided to continue it with SPOILER ALERT Costas Mandylor as a dirty cop carrying on the killers legacy.

Honestly, how much money did the Jigsaw killer have to get the equipment for such elaborate contraptions and prime real estate to set them up so no one would stumble across a death trap and screw the whole thing up.

What we get this time around is a retread of the second one in which five people go through a lot of elaborate traps and get offed one by one. there's a lot of explosions every 15 minutes, surely someone would call the cops, but movies like this rely on the law of improbability, meaning when the least likely thing to happens happens.

The traps are too elaborate there's so much room for failure. But this is a movie and a bad one at it. Tobin Bell pops up again acting like he's on life support in flashbacks that we really don't care about.

Like Saw IV, most of this relies on flashbacks, that I really didn't care about the five people who get offed in the elaborate traps. They're introduced so late in the movie and we don't get to see much of them anyway.

Who cares about them? Instead, we watch some awful story about Scott Patterson as a fed tracking Mandylor leading up to the twist ending in which Mandylor gets away, but who cares? By now, it's obvious that the Jigsaw and his apprentice were so smart and so crafty that they thought about everything ahead of time.

There's a Saw IV currently in the works and it's in 3-D, which at one time was considered the last refuge for a failing series. But I'm sure we're going to see Saw VIII and Saw IX and Saw X and so on and so on.