Saw V

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."

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."

It's cheap, sloppy, and too jumbled up to know what it should be.

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

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

This year's installment is as disappointing as a Halloween bag filled with nothing but raisins.

Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"

Oh, Jigsaw. Here we go again. You kill. I doze off. Someone at the studio goes "ka-ching!"

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.

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?