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Metascore®19 out of 100 | Generally unfavorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Gregory Kirschling

    The production values have become so horror-movie shoddy that Saw V has more in common with kitsch like "Friday the 13th Part V" than the original "Saw." Read full review

  • 25
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    Devotes so much time and energy to flashbacks and recycling footage from its predecessors that it threatens to implode. Read full review

  • 25
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Saw V is a terrible combination: grisly and tedious. Let's just call it bloody dull. Read full review

  • 20
    The Hollywood Reporter | Frank Scheck

    By-the-numbers retread. Read full review

  • 10
    Los Angeles Times | Sam Adams

    A particularly dull and discombobulated affair, shot and acted with all the flair of a basic-cable procedural. Patterson and Mandylor are so wooden that their cat-and-mouse game has all the excitement of watching dust bunnies swirl in an air current. Read full review

  • 10
    The New York Times | Nathan Lee

    Skips back and forth in time, trying to piece together who did what, when and why. The only question really worth asking here: Who cares? Read full review

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