SAW - V (2008)

Synopsis:
Following Jigsaw's grisly demise, Mark Hoffman, the final apprentice to the serial killer is deigned a hero. Meanwhile, Agent Strahm is tested and puts the pieces together. While Strahm realizes that Hoffman is helping Jigsaw, five seemingly unconnected people face a horrible lesson about teamwork.

Strahm follows all the leads he can get off Hoffman, including the death of his sister and why he joined Jigsaw. Hoffman and Strahm circle each other until it boils down to a gruesome and bone-crushing finale.

Review: The story has flashbacks to previous films and previous characters and at times, you are so busy trying to remember what happened in the previous films that it distracts you from this one. This leaves enough questions and storyline threads to guarantee that we'll be watching Saw VI this time next year.

For me this is on a par with part IV and basically it is more of what we have come to expect. It's not a bad film, it's just not anything new or particularly memorable.

Shockingly, there is no big shock in Saw V, no mind-busting twist, only a series of small realizations,

Genre: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson
Runtime: 92 min
Language: English
Studio: Lionsgate
Director: David Hackl
Writers: Patrick Melton (screenplay) & Marcus Dunstan (screenplay)
Release Date: 24 October 2008 (USA)
Rating: Rated R for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture, language and brief nudity.

Overall Rating: 7.5/10