Saw V
Lionsgate | Release Date: October 24, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
20
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
4
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
Hackl weaves scenes from the previous films into this one in clever ways, without adding to the confusion. The director also does a good job of maintaining the dark tone, which includes FBI offices that look as if they're being illuminated by night-lights, and dungeons that look as if you'd catch a venereal disease or two just by touching the door handles. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirschling
The production values have become so horror-movie shoddy that Saw V has more in common with kitsch like "Friday the 13th Part V" than the original "Saw." Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyLuke Y. Thompson
The method to the madness of the traps turns out to be quite clever, but the rewriting of Saw mythology is the slasher equivalent of revising Star Wars so that Greedo fires at Han Solo first. Read full review
40
Film ThreatScott Mendelson
This is easily the smallest-scale of the sequels, and it has the feeling of a massively shrunken budget. Read full review
38
TV Guide MagazineJeremy Wheeler
It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Truly, the greatest torture of all is boredom. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode. Read full review
25
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck
By-the-numbers retread. Read full review
12
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!" Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesSam Adams
A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current. Read full review
10
The New York TimesNathan Lee
Skips back and forth in time, trying to piece together who did what, when and why. The only question really worth asking here: Who cares? Read full review
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