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24.10.08 # 13:25 # Review # 48 Comments
Saw 5 is not being screened for critics ahead of its release. It’s a tactic that has paid dividends for the franchise in previous years. So here’s a round-up of the Saw 5 reviews that are out there.
“Were they painted into a corner after killing Jigsaw off so undeniably in IV? Running out of ideas? Jaded? Just cashing in? I won’t hazard a guess, but I do know without doubt that I was bored to the point of pinwheel-eyed numbness during the never-ending mouse machinations of Saw 5. Most missed is Darren Lynn Bousman.” (director of Saws 2, 3, and 4)
“…if you manage to stay awake during this incredibly dull installment of the dwindling Saw franchise, you’ll not only believe the ending, but you’ll see it coming miles away. (3/10)”
“I have a special place in my heart for the first four films…Saw 5 looked like a made-for-TV movie that might air on the Sci-Fi Channel. It was dull, boring and even looked cheap. (3/10)”
And those are the horror fans…
Saw 5 currently holds a 14% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, from 29 reviews.
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Saw that coming. Ha!
Just for that comment you’ll be forced to watch this film with your eyelids taped open. It’s the law.
That movie wasnt as good as they made it out to be. i wanted to fall asleep. it was that boring
This movie sucked so much! predictable,long,boring,pointless,and really lame. Save your money and pick another movie to watch. For the people in the saw franchise…stop making movies or start making them good again.
Loved it, had me on the edge of my seat the whole time! Very gruesome at the end!
The saw 5 movie was put up to be this great movie. The movie was no where as good as everyone made it seem. I personally dont like the movie because A.there was no plot in the movie. B.they tryed to make the movie to good. i think that if they would have had the same mind set that they had for the first 4 it would have been a great movie but since they were tryin to make it that much better than the rest they failed to even make a good movie!. i should have waited for it to come out on dvd!
After promising to fit all the pieces together and being the goriest one yet…. It failed to deliver anything but yawns and more questions!! A poorly made film compared to the others. Clearly left it open for a six and maybe even a seven. Clearly scrabbling around themselves to make the story fit even resorting to bringing in a random body that was never mentioned in the previous 4 (Seth Baxter)to try and make it make sense. No amazing traps or contraptions of torture either. Very disappointing
They have dragged this franchise on for far too long, already some of the movies had been terrible (saw 2), they should have stopped but no the money is irrestible.what a waste of money and time to go see.
it wuznt dat bad 4real. i mean it wuznt good as it wuz hype but it wuz cooh and enjoyable. could have ben way better. traps wuznt dat good either but of course they gon milk it 4da money but stop watchin da Saw movies if itz ben dragged since 2. we on 5 now. but personally u can wait 4 dvd but if u jus want sumthin 2do i woodnt say itz ah waist of me, jus dnt beleve da hype. but i luv Jigsaw. jus hope dey approve on 6 and 7
I didn’t think it was all that bad. The movies have started to take a little bit of a different approach. Starting at III i think the movies are more a focus on the investigator(s) and a little less about the people in the “main game”. This may not be edge of your seat excitement but it is interesting nonetheless. My only complaint is the characters for the 2 detectives. Horrible attitudes for the movie. Something about shady cops is extraordinarily boring to watch. I would still suggest it to anyone who has watched the rest of the series.
Waste of time and money. The movie didn’t get anywhere with the plot. At the end you are at the same place as at the end of Saw 4. Hopefully Saw 6 will pick up the slack of this installment.
went to see it last night - i did fall asleep! caught the last 20 or so minutes but i’d missed so much i didnt care much for the ending. wait for the dvd!
WOW!!! I am a massive saw fan. I have always been obsessed with horror movies……. although it seems extremely difficult to find a ’scary’ movie now a days that has a combination of good acting, a good story line, and at least alittle bit of intellegance in the script. needless to say that when saw came out I was thrilled!! 1,2,3, and 4 all were amazing and I was sooooooo excited about 5. OUCH…. what a painful experience that was sitting there watching that. I got the same feeling of dread that I got when I discovered that Jewel (the singer) had actually sold out and was not just making a brilliant political statement with that horrible song ‘intuition’!!!
it was not good. They completely dumbed the movie down- gave their audience absulutly NO credit. They turned it into a simple gore movie- no more symbolism, no more amazing statements on humanity, no more attempts at irony, NO MORE GOODNESS. I was pissed. oh well, all good things come to an end I suppose. bring back the old director, or writer or whatever it was that you changed, and for fu*k sakes- give your watchers back at least alittle more credit!!! nasty.
Dalmatian:
I felt bad about my pun. So I watched it. Here is my review:
Unlike most other horror villains whose infamy is achieved well in advance of the fourth sequel, Jigsaw remains a forgotten face. Could it be something to do with the fact that each sequel somehow gets even worse as time goes on? The Friday the 13th series is abysmal, but at least it has never plumbed the depths of atrocious franchise.
The main problem with all horrors is the need to explain the villain. Finding out anything of Jason (beyond the fact that he died many years before the first movie) breaks the monster. Likewise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween reboot revealed so much of Michael that the Shape was erased from fear. The rare exception to this rule is Freddy, who became somehow worse when you found out his history.
So Saw makes exactly the same mistakes: you take a faceless, fearsome opponent (Jigsaw) and you expand on his character until nothing remains of the mystery. Every successive Saw has done more damage to the monster than good, so will the writers finally learn from their mistakes?
No.
Saw 5 takes the low road: the entire movie is backstory and exposition into Jigsaw and Hoffman as Agent Strahm runs around somehow piecing together clues from a ridiculously convoluted puzzle. Meanwhile, five faceless entities run through a series of rooms spewing dialogue and dying in hilariously over the top manners.
With Saw 6 being announced at the same time as this movie, it becomes immediately obvious that no closure is coming to the franchise any time soon. The endgame is obvious within ten minutes. The traps are laughably silly. And the worst part of all? Jigsaw’s golden rule of “giving people a chance” (remember when it was about morals?) is here shattered beyond recognition.
The main story features the Faceless Five, with the only recognisable person in the crowd being Julie Benz, formerly Darla in Buffy. Their objective, it seems, is to run from one end of a building to the other, killing each other off to survive. Because that’s what “giving people a chance” and redemption is all about – forcing them to die one after the other.
As roughly two thirds of the film feels stale and repetitive, director David Hackl must take the blame – it’s incredibly difficult to be more horrified by contrived plot twists than by a man being cut in half by a pendulum.
In an interview before the release, Hackl revealed that the final trap in this film was devised by his seven year old son. If that’s true then that explains the entire feel of the film: childish.
Don’t expect Saw 6 to get things back on track. In fact, just ignore Jigsaw altogether. He seems to want to be forgotten.
Its just gnna turn out like JAWS when they made all the damn sequels and what not