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(1 - 22) of 22 OFCS Rating: 18% Rotten Page   1   "'Saw V' emerges as merely a passable horror movie, freaky enough to get by but a far cry from the jaw-dropping start of the series."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   A. J. Hakari 1/5 "Saw V? You'll wish you hadn't."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 2/5 "The weakest installment so far."   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron D "More careful viewers might be starting to question the validity of this ongoing story: a five-film-too-long journey that has never felt more arbitrarily plotted than in the final 10 minutes of Saw V."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf D- "Everything after its gory "pit-and-the-pendulum" opening scare sequence is downhill in the fifth and potentially last installment in a horror franchise that has run completely out of steam."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2.5/4 "...hardcore fans of Jigsaw's exploits will probably find something here worth embracing."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 1.5/4 "Jigsaw was put out of his misery two movies ago. Lionsgate might want to consider doing this misbegotten series the same favor."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D "As rote and mechanical as one of Jigsaw's traps, though at least Jigsaw's traps are suspenseful and ingenious. The movie is neither of those things."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider F "There's really nothing new here, and what's old is not good."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "Dullest film in series is still brutal and bloody."   Common Sense Media   James Rocchi 3.0/4.0 "... the Saw franchise continues to provide at least one decent horror film to look forward to at Halloween."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 3.5/5 "Like High School Musical 3, which is opening against this film, Saw V is made for the fans."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr "Beyond entertaining fans with variations on the life-or-death challenges that seemed so startlingly fresh a mere four years ago, Saw V's primary purpose seems to be setting up a new series of films featuring Hoffman as the evil puppet-master. Wheth"   Film Journal International   Maitland McDonagh 1/4 "Being the fifth annual go-round for this durable splatter franchise, this film has really no power to change any minds."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 2/5 "About the only thing that really interested me about Saw V was the fact that it shares this odd parallel relationship to the fifth installment of Friday the 13th."   Mike Bracken's Horror Films   Mike Bracken 1/4 "Deadly traps may remain the bread and butter of the Saw series, but the real trick has become keeping these fetid sequels moderately fresh."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 1/5 "Saw V is a bloody bore from beginning to end and the only scenes in the movie that come close to being scary are the ones that seem to have been inserted solely to set up a possible Saw VI."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 0/5 "The Saw franchise has become a weekend-before-Halloween tradition; ironically, though, it has ceased to be a horror series."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves "An insult to fourth-rate ripoffs of Se7en, and even that may not be harsh enough."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick 3/5 "There are only so many alternate flashbacks and massive explanations that a horror freak can take ... but I think the series is still amusing enough to warrant 90 minutes a year."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg 3/10 "Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV"   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 1.5/4 "A disappointing film that breaks all of the series' own rules."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell  (1 - 22) of 22 OFCS Rating: 18% Rotten Page   1