You remember how we revisited the events of the first “Back To The Future” in “Back To The Future Part II”? Well, “Saw V” felt like it was doing the same type of thing (just without the time travel element). This is a total disaster from beginning to end as the plot gets even more ludicrous and the traps get so bland that it’s obvious the filmmakers have just stopped caring.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more confusing, “Saw V” throws a load more absurd plot threads at us to try and stitch all the films together. With Jigsaw (Tobin Bell “The Firm”) now dead, Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor “Virtuosity”) is hailed as hero but is he hiding something? More people are facing the deadly ‘games’ so get ready for more blood to be spilled.

Jigsaw is dead yet the makers somehow keep finding ways to incorporate Tobin Bell in the movies with flashbacks, audio recordings and just about every other trick in the book. It’s like they’re trying to keep him on life-support when he literally has no life left. The way this film tries to make us believe that other characters were present during the events of the previous films is just stupid and feels so forced. We just know that they can repeat this trick for all eternity.

The “Saw” franchise should have died a long time ago but it keeps coming back and it keeps getting dumber and lazier. If you are into seeing people mutilated in lots of horrible ways then there are numerous traps that we see used on the killer’s victims but the traps themselves are not remotely creative. If you love the “Saw” films and you get sucked into all the whacky ways that the filmmakers keep bending the plot around then you’ll like “Saw V”. However, I just hated this movie.