Saw V

Saw V, 2.5 out of 4 stars

Tobin Bell as John Kramer/Jigsaw and there will be a lot of flash back in "Saw V".

Although Halloween has passed long time ago, but I still need to review this movie. Happy new year to you all. Now is 2009, so I need to spend this night to review last year movies. Saw V, directed by David Hackl, who is a first time director. The films begins with a criminal who was released from a prison and chained to a table and above him is a pendulum which can slice off his body. If he want to survive the game, he must crushed his hand so that he wont hit by the pendulum. Even though he crushed his hand but the pendulum still cut him into half. That's mean the trap is inescapable, and someone except jigsaw has purposely done this trap. Then the films jump to Agent Peter Strahm (Scott Patterson) enter the room where jigsaw died. Suddenly he has been attacked by a person who wear a pig mask. After surviving the jigsaw game, Peter Strahm started to gather some of the jigsaw's victim and revisits some of the crime scene and pieces altogether the puzzle. So, he on his way to find out who was the apprentice of jigsaw. So there will be a lot of flash back. The flash back is about how does the jigsaw has a apprentice and how he influence someone to join him. So there will be a lot of psychology thinking here. The best part of this film is how he influence that person (I don't want to be a spoiler) to follow his step. After that, the film jump to the scene where five people are waking up in a sewer and have to play a few stages of jigsaw game. In the end, although the ending is predictable but still contain a bit of plot twist. Actually the whole movie has a lot of jump scene, so I don't know how to explain the whole story. In my opinion, this movie is the weakest in the Saw franchise. There will be a bit disappointment throughout the story. The story is quite disappointing is because this movie is too focus on the flashback instead of five people in the sewer. Because of this, there will be less blood and gore than it predecessor. So, I minus 0.5 mark here. Besides that, the tag line of this movie is "You won't believe how it ends", the "How" means a lot of things, actually. Other than that, there will be a big plot hole in this movie. The first 5 minutes of the movie is a plot hole (I won't tell you what it is unless you already watch the movie. If you don't know, just message me. Haha). Because of that, I minus another 1 mark. Is "Saw V" a bad movie? I don't think so, because there are many things that I like from this movie. The jigsaw game is quite creative, although is less blood and gore, but the game requires some teamwork, and it really shows the characteristic and mindset of the five people in the sewer. The director done a great job in it. I do really hope that Saw VI will do much more better than this. Here comes an overall of this movie, "Although it is less blood and gore but still a watchable intelligence horror movie."