There's only so much audiences can take. After reaching it's umpteenth entry, a horror film franchise becomes harder and harder to keep audiences interested. Plot lines become repetitive and the stories become dull and boring. Such is the case with Saw V.
It's been a couple years since Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) died (he did so in Saw III), but for some reason, he work goes on. It's revealed that the person who's been named as Jigsaw's successor (would he be called Jigsaw II?) is none other than Det. Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). As he continues Jigsaw's work, FBI Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) gets closer and closer to uncovering Jigsaw. Meanwhile, four strangers (but all with ties to each other) get trapped in a room and engage in a series of traps to find their way out.
If it weren't for the constant clever traps and puzzles that the filmmakers come up with, this franchise would be completely dead in the water. It is heading there, as the story is stale. It's a standard cop investigation story with nothing really to go on. There is a clever scene where Agent Strohm is trapped with his head in a glass box of water. He takes his pen, stabs himself in the throat, and then uses his pen to perform an emergency trachyotomy so he can breath. Whether that can really work or not, it's still the most clever thing about this movie. Going into it, you know what to expect. A cop story with people attempting to get out of live-threatening moral traps in order to survive. However, this franchise has run its course. The saw's blade is now rather dull.
1 1/2 stars
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