Media Review-Saw 5

MAYA HABDAS

For my media review I chose to write about the movie Saw 5. This series, as

you are probably familiar with are about a deranged psychopath that makes

jaw-clenching, unthinkably horrid death traps and gives his victims a certain

amount of time for them to “save themselves” from death.

I found this recent addition to the series to be even more brutal and painful

to watch, but it was even more painful to see how the audience was barely

unnerved by it. How can such violence and disturbing images go emotionally

and physically unannounced by it’s viewers.

Cinematically, this movie did have excellent yet gruesome shots. The

portrayal of each characters antagonizing emotion really makes the movie

even more horrifying to watch and I feel the shots brought this out. For

this Saw movie however, there was a new Director, David Hackl. It was very

apparent though. The way the camera would be placed and even the script,

seemed like a whole new production crew had been brought out, and everyone

looked at it as just another horror movie.

Overall, I would rate this movie 6 out of 10 stars. It was a could “keep you

at the edge of your seat” kind of film and it was entertaining, but I wouldn’t

recommend it to anyone that likes real cinematic productions.