Oct 27 2008
SAW 5
SAW
Four years ago a powerful franchise started with just a dollar and a dream. Leigh Whannell and James Wan created the infamous film SAW. The film centered around two people who were shackled in a rundown bathroom with a dead body in the middle of the room. The movie than plays out likes a talking head movie as the characters try to figure out how they got there and who each other were. The film was an instant classic and gave life to a new serial killer icon of that of JIGSAW. Jigsaw played by Tobin Bell is the underlying driving force of the series. In each installment, up to five (currently as of yesterday), we get a new piece of Jigsaw’s back-story and a new element to the whole SAW odyssey. The series
As whole consists of strangers who are connected with some secret, being place together or alone, in a series of “therapeutic” torture devices. It’s if they stay true to themselves and face their sins is the only way to survive.
Now on to SAW 5, if you didn’t see the previous installments or most importantly SAW 4, then this film will make absolutely no sense at all. That is a major problem with all these films, except the first one, you have to see them all for them to make sense. Each SAW film webs back to the original and the previous sequels. However, with this film like the others the ending is exactly the same. (MINOR SPOILER) In all five SAW’s there is a montage sequence where a cop who is playing the game goes into a scary building or area alone and gets tricked by JIGSAW. My complaint is if the cop is up on the tricks of JIGSAW why would you go into his “lair” without a semi-automatic weapon or a S.W.A.T team. I don’t want to go into spoiling SAW 5, except the ending is similar to the other films, and this is a spoiler, a SAW 6 is already in the works for 2009.
See SAW 5, only in theaters. Playing now. http://saw5.asmik-ace.co.jp/
