This movie would have been okay for TV. If I would have been watching it on TV, I probably would have changed the channel because this movie is predictable and uneventful.
This definitely is not a movie that should be at the theatre.
As always, JigSaw developed some interesting games. I was intrigued but not scared. I do wish the writer would have explained how JigSaw could possibly still be alive if his heart stopped in the prior movie (by virtue of the doctor's head being blown off!). I think someone from Saw IV should have been the main character in Saw V because I was struggling to understand where these new characters came from. Oops, I forgot--we killed everyone in Saw IV--:). I found myself wanting to dose off a few times about half way through the movie--:)--but the movie was good.
This is a great "high tech big brother is watching" movie. I love the way the computer just took the "everyday person" and manipulated their lives to make them do whatever the computer wanted. I really appreciated those scenes where the computer was desperately seeking ways to spy on people--lip reading and everything! And to top it all off, the computr picked its own next president. Great suspense thriller that managed to tie up all lose ends.
To me, this was a regular 7pm or 9pm TV movie for any night of the week. I don't think it's really a theater movie. The plot is the same as a TV movie -- adultry, backstabbing in the midst of a long-term friendship. The acting was excellent, and the established actors really pulled this one off. To me it wasn't a Christian movie, but I'll have to just state for the record that you don't baptize a person who has not accepted Christ--I really wish that baptism wasn't in the movie since the application was incorrect.
I really enjoyed this movie. Samuel L. Jackson did a great job antagonizing his neighbors. I found the movie to be believable (even though I was wondering how someone on a police officer's salary could afford that house. Samuel did give an explanation later in the movie--worked O.T., extra jobs, etc.). I also liked that Patrick Wilson wasn't "Mr. Innocent"--he had some character flaws that served to really "set" Samuel L. Jackson "off."
The plot was great. The acting was great. I understood all of the traveling around in order to not get caught. But, I still found myself bored. I needed more action. This simply was not "my" type of movie.
This movie was scary enough. The plot was o.k., but the writer didn't seem to be sure what he/she wanted to focus on. Many things occured which did not make sense once the viewer began to make certain assumptions. For example, if the problem was a demon that was transferred into those mirrors, the ending does not make sense. If the demon could travel through any mirror to find anyone, even for the opening kill scene, why couldn't the demon find Ana? At times, the demon could travel through "anything" that provided a reflection -- you couldn't even take a bath! This didn't make sense, again, because the demon could not find Ana. She had to be bathing, etc., all those years. In sum, the movie just didn't make sense -- too many angles.
The Joker was involved in so much mentally crazy activity that I really didn't feel like I was at a Batman movie. I felt more like I was watching "The Shining" or "Silence of the Lambs" or "Hannibal." This movie is long, but I never got bored. I found myself begging for the end because I was simply overwhelmed by the Joker's ability to just murder one person after another without end! Like in the movie "Seven," I felt the Joker would just go on killing until "he" simply felt like stopping! To me, this was the best "murdering mad man" movie I've seen in a long time. The plot was wonderful, and the twist at the end was wonderful too. Some parts were predictable, but many parts were not -- the killing, torture, and havoc level was very unexpected.