The re-watchening continues w/ my 31 Dys Of Horror - are you kidding me that we even watched the 5th one too?

Good cop and bad cop in the game of traps, and the series continues.

This movie is about a detective figuring out the plots of Saw III and Saw IV.

After the awful fourth part, "Saw V" is again a minor improvement for me. But that's not exactly because of the main plot, which has the same weaknesses as its predecessor. Most of the actors are still lousy, especially Costas Mandylor and Betsy Russell. The plot holes remain, and the characters do not behave in a comprehensible manner. It's obvious why Jigsaw speaks in riddles, but why do all the other characters do the same? What saves the film for me in the end are the traps and the whole "game". This time it's halfway interesting again, even if the writers don't manage to build even a rudimentary connection between the two plot elements. Thus, both things run parallel. The finale, however, worked quite well for me, both in terms of brutality and the prospects for the sequel.

>*"If you're good at anticipating the human mind, it leaves nothing to chance."*

- Started strong with the Pendulum Trap, that was amazing.
- The franchise is starting to feel like a TV show at this point. In this weeks episode...
- No idea what's going on in the timeline. All over the place and convoluted.
- Too many detectives at this point, it's ridiculous.
- More trash characters and acting.
- Some of the traps are deadly, sure, but where's the originality? They're so simplistic and uninspired.

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**Traps Ranked** (worst way to die order):

[spoiler]1. *Pendulum Trap* - you had me at "bones crushed to dust". I thought the hand crushing was bad until I saw the pendulum
2. *Glass Coffin* - crushed to death. Outch!
3. *Water Cube* - drowning is up there in the worst ways to die for sure
4. *Shotgun Chair* - instant death. "Distasteful" trap for this franchise
5. *10 Pints of Sacrifice* - hurts but doesn't kill you. Nice gore
6. *Electric Bathtub* - Lame
7. *Neck Tie Trap* - Lame
8. *Ceiling Jars* - can't believe this actually counts as a trap. Lame[/spoiler]

Even if they made 300 saw movies I'd still watch them...

_Saw 5_ is like the story of something exciting that happened to you that you share with everyone you know. The first couple times it's fun and exciting, but by the time you get to the 5th telling, you cut corners and try less because it gets old fast.

It's not easy to say the same thing 5 times and act like it's new each time. And I swear to God the director got paid by the flashback -- I'd create some kind of drinking game (Wanna play a game?) where you have to drink a shot for every flashback, but then y'all would die from alcohol poisoning.

WELL THIS WAS SUPER FREAKING AWESOME IMPRESSIVE. NUMBER 2 WAS MY FAVOURITE UNTIL THIS AWESOMENESS CAME ALONG.
BEST ONE YET, I HAVE
THE FINAL-CUT BOXSET OF THESE FANTASTIC MOVIE'S AND THE FINAL CUT ON NUMBER 5 IS ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL AND I LOVED EVERY SECOND OF IT.
REALLY SHOWS UP ALL OTHER CUTS OF THESE MOVIE'S,
EVEN THE ONE'S THAT SAY THEY ARE UNCUT. HONESTLY THIS ONE WAS THE MOST INTERESTING AND GRAPHIC
BLOODY ONE DO FAR AND THE PACING ON THIS MOVIE WAS ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR,
I REALLY REALLY HOPE THEY KEEP THIS LEVEL OF BLOOD GORE AND AWESOMENESS FOR THE OTHER'S,
HELLA YEAH.
10/10.


NEXT........

Jigsaw may be dead, but his work continues on in Saw V. FBI agent Peter Strahm plays a deadly game of cat and mouse with police detective Mark Hoffman after coming to suspect that he was Jigsaw’s accomplice; meanwhile 5 people fight for their lives in a maze full of death traps. The writing is really poor, as Strahm’s investigation into Hoffman couldn’t be more boring and the death maze segments seem completely disconnected from the rest of the film. Void of any suspense or thrills, Saw V is a pale imitation of what has come before.

Saw V isn't as interesting as the rest of the bunch that came before. It again chances everything with flashbacks and we get a cop vs. cop cat and mouse game. With one being Jigsaw and the other being framed as Jigsaw.

Like every Saw IV this one picks up at the end of III as well. They show us how Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) became Jigsaw's successor. How he is involved in various traps from the past movies etc. etc. The best that those scenes has going for it is Tobin Bell. His scenes are what is the best about this SAW, well almost every SAW film.

We also get a group that has to go through room to room, trap to trap. Most of them, well all but 3, involving bombs. You are really creative Jigsaw Hoffman! Anyway, we get the most brutal trap in the opening, which was very well filmed!

So yeah this one is okay but not one I would recommend.

I'm currently binge watching all Saw movies, it is getting worse and worse. They should have stopped on Saw 3.

I had trouble differentiating between the two cops (Strahm and Hoffman) throughout the movie. Why cast two males that look so similar and then give them identical haircuts?

>“Killing is distasteful... to me."

Ok these flashbacks are getting a little out of hand. It was a little cool at first but by the 5th film I got tired of it.