DVD
REVIEW: SAW 5
UNRATED
DIRECTOR'S CUT
01/17/09
One of the things that has
made the Saw franchise succeed all these years is the
creativity and consistency of the writers in linking each
movie to the next without making it repetitive or boring. It
has been this capacity of the writers that has made each
movie both independent and related to each other at the same
time, every time one of its movie comes out it brings
something new to the story without trashing its older
version, it something that writers from previous horror
franchises forgot to do after a promising first part; you
could say that it is this regularity has made Saw in my
opinion the most successful and profitable horror movie of
all times, each year , around Halloween, it has given us a
new piece of the puzzle that seems it will never be solved.
But for how long are they going to able to keep doing it,
without falling into a ruinous repetition ? So far as a fan
of the series I can happily say there is at least room for
one more, SAW V gives the same exciting thrills, games and
deaths as the previous installations, and left the story
pending for a good and well elaborated finale.
Saw V Continues offering the same great quality, graphical
and imaginative traps set by Jigsaw, while it goes deeper
into his past and legacy. He has left one student who has
not finished Jigsaw’s rehabilitation’s process. This time
around the main victim is Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) who
was left behind in Saw IV trapped in the room where John and
Amanda had met their end. Fortunately for him, and
surprisingly to the audience he survives the test, and it
becomes his obsession to catch the last of John’s
compliance. An obsession that although reveals some truth
might take him to his end. Along Strahm story, there is a
side story of five new people left to play one more deadly
game, at the end as usual in these movies both stories fit
together, as it they were parts of the same puzzle in a not
that surprising ending.
As fan of the series I can not say that this movie
disappoints, and as I stated before it has all the other
qualities that have made the previous ones excel in the
genre. And a big part for this is due to the writing. Yes,
the special effects, imaginative games and acting are as
good as the previous ones, but it has been the ability of
the writers to kept the franchise alive masterfully linking
the past and the present in this twisted universe without
given the audience a sense of worthlessness or stiffness.
The movies flows as a combination of the multi player
obstacle course form the second film and the Past, present
junction from the fourth movie. this keeps the audience in
suspense, even when they know that the main character
(Jigsaw) is dead , for a final revelation to close these
extensive puzzle, which at the end we are left with more
questions than answers again.
For me Saw has become like the movie version of the TV
Series, year after year Twisted Pictures brings us a new set
of related events that keeps entertaining us as it was one
of those never series shown in TV. After the fourth I said
to myself that it was going to be the last one, that I would
like to leave the series as a successful one, but when I
found out about the fifth installment of the series I was
both excited and hesitant. First because I wanted to be
emerge once again into this bloody, and Thrilled world, and
I wanted to know what would be the Real Ending for this
movie, but at the same time I was afraid that it was just
going to be a collection of creative and gruesome deaths.
Well I got to say that I was right, both things happened,
first the movie entertain me like all the other, I enjoyed
every second like the first time I saw the first one, but at
the same time I could not help to notice that although the
story was well thought out and written, in general it could
have been shown in 45 minutes, the remaining fifty were just
filling deaths that up to this point of the series did not
make any sense but just to disturb us with violent images. I
do not know if the new characters will have an important
role in future productions but it seems to me that they were
just there to extend the movie. Nonetheless for fans of
horror and specially of the series this is a most have, I
recommend this movie to anyone who is in the mood for a
mystery and have a strong stomach, although if you are not
familiar with the series I recommend to see I, III, and IV
before. It is not a secret that this years the sixth
installment is coming out in theaters, now with Jigsaw dead
for more than a movie, and its accomplice identify, I hope
the writers keep providing us with an interesting story and
finish the Series without falling prey of economical
ambition, or worse repetition and inconsistency in a story
that has captivated us for years. For now we could be happy
that this horror classical has made it to its fifth movie
and it still standing tall.
Review
By Milo
milo@smartcine.com
VIDEO:
Widescreen (1.78:1)
AUDIO:
English 5.1 Dolby
Digital EX
Subtitles - English Spanish
SPECIAL FEATURES: The DVD set comes well design as all
the previous ones, just by looking at its cover, it gives
you the chills but at the same time curiosity for the movie,
it matches and will looked good with the other three DVDs
Covers in your collection. The unrated versions shows a
little more blood that the theatrical one but it is hard to
see the difference. In bonus material I think it is pretty
hard for production to come up with something new, most of
the mythology and explanations has been given to us in
previous DVDs, nonetheless the few features are interesting
since they are mostly about how the traps were constructed
and the scenes were taken. For fans is ok to watch at least
once. One major complain about this DVD it is that it has
too many previous, when you inserted it you at least have a
good 15 minutes of trailers, this was quite annoying and put
me in a bad mood to watch the movie.
Audio Commentary with Director David Hackl and First
Assistant Director Steve Webb : Watch the movie
while the director expresses his point of view and
experiences in each scene of the movie
Audio Commentary with Producers Mark Burg and Oren Koules
and Executive Producers Peter
Block and Jason Constantine
“The Pendulum Trap” featurette : Watch how this trap
was design the ideas behind, and the precaution taken to
shoot this scene. (5:47)
“The Cube Trap” featurette : Watch how this trap was
design the ideas behind it, and the precaution taken and the
struggles the actor have in this scene since it was shot as
real as it could have been. (5:12)
“The Coffin Trap” featurette : Watch how this trap
was design the ideas behind, and the precaution taken to
shoot this scene. This has been one of the largest and
although it is the less creative of traps it is one of the
most impressive ones for the scale and simplicity. (5:44)
“The Fatal Five” featurette : This feature covers
the five traps that the new characters face Watch how these
traps were design the ideas behind them, and the precaution
taken and comments from the actors (11:54).
“Slicing the Cube: Editing the Cube Trap” featurette
: This shows in detail how this scene was shot, the
reactions, special effects and editing process of one of the
most simple but scariest traps seen in SAW history. (5:03)
Theatrical Trailer
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