導演：大衛?海克爾
主演：托賓?貝爾 斯科特?帕特森 朱莉?本茨
類型：動作/驚悚/犯罪/恐怖/懸疑
上映日期： 2008年10月24日 美國
推薦指數：★★★★
劇情介紹
前四集中所有挑戰電鋸的人都是非死即殘，約翰的尸體還在醫院的停尸房，李戈警官身負重傷躺在倉庫里，探員皮爾茲在醫院里養傷，探員斯特拉木依舊失蹤……當然，這樣哀鴻遍野的結果比起當初被屠戮的過程來說已經是天上人間了。在這里，殺人和刑罰早已經突破了道德約束的疆界升級成為了一種藝術。暴力美學這種后現代詞匯當然不足以形容在這里發生的一切，人類殘忍的本能似乎才是影片真正的主旨。總之，這一集中，各種虐殺又可以讓血漿迷們大飽眼福了。而這一次的倒霉鬼是一個叫做霍夫曼的偵探——如果簡潔的說，這一句話就可以概括本片全部的劇情了，眾所周知，劇情在這里只是一個借口，對人肉血淋淋的烹炒煎炸才是影片的主菜……
推薦理由
自從第一集以密室生存與殺戮作為噱頭之后，隨后的幾集都在第一集的基礎上進一步延伸其劇情，于是關于“堅鋸”老者的背景、殺人的深層動機等等逐一呈現，而殺人狂的新信奉者、警察的偵破過程等等新加入的元素也使得續集的內容更加豐富。當然，最核心的故事，依然是那些從睡夢中醒來茫然不知，卻要面對恐怕是人生中最殘酷的一次考驗的實驗者們……在這一集內，以往4集中留下的諸多疑點將會在本集內逐步揭開。
Plot summary
Saw V is the fifth installment in the Saw franchise. The film was released on October 23, 2008 in Australia, and October 24 in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. Saw V was directed by David Hackl, unlike the previous three installments which were directed by Darren Lynn Bousman. Hackl was the production designer of Saws II, III and IV, and second-unit director for Saw III and Saw IV.
Seth Baxter (Joris Jarsky), a convicted murderer who was released early from prison on a technicality, is chained to a table beneath a pendulum blade. A videotaped message informs him that in order to survive, he must crush his hands by putting them into two presses and pushing the buttons inside. Even though he does so, the pendulum swings down and slices him in half. The fact that the trap was inescapable marks it as a creation of someone other than John Kramer (Tobin Bell).
In a scene from the end of Saw IV, Agent Peter Strahm (Scott Patterson) enters the room containing the corpses of John Kramer, Amanda Young and Lynn Denlon, and shoots Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) dead in self-defense. As he examines Jigsaw's corpse, he is trapped in the room by Lieutenant Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor). Discovering a hidden door that leads into a passage and a microcassette that urges him not to proceed any further, he moves down the passage and is attacked by a figure in a pig mask. Regaining consciousness, he discovers that his head is trapped in a small glass box that begins to fill with water. A self-administered tracheotomy using a pen keeps him breathing until the police arrive at the Gideon meatpacking plant, where Hoffman emerges carrying Jeff's daughter Corbett (Niamh Wilson), claiming that they are the only survivors until Strahm is brought out alive as well.
Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell), John Kramer's ex-wife, receives a videotape and a locked, wooden box from John's lawyer. On the tape, John tells her that the items in the box are of "grave importance" and that she will know what to do with them. She unlocks it with a key on a chain around her neck. After looking inside, she takes the box and hurries away without revealing its contents. Meanwhile, the chief of police announces an end to the Jigsaw murders and promotes Hoffman for closing the cases.
Strahm begins questioning Hoffman's innocence upon learning that Agent Perez said Hoffman's name before dying from the wounds inflicted on her by the exploding Billy doll. Gathering up all the files on Jigsaw’s victims, Strahm revisits some of the crime scenes and pieces together Hoffman's involvement: Hoffman set up the inescapable pendulum trap to kill Seth (who murdered Hoffman's sister) and blamed it on Jigsaw, who used his knowledge of these events to blackmail Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.
Meanwhile, in a sewer, Ashley, Charles, Brit, Mallick, and Luba Gibbs wake up in a trap in which collars are locked around their necks, strung on a cable connected to a set of guillotine blades mounted on the wall behind them. The keys to the collars are in glass boxes at the other end of the room. All but Ashley (Laura Gordon) are able to escape in time; she is decapitated when the collars are automatically pulled back to the wall and into the blades.
In the next room, the four survivors must break jars hanging from the ceiling and find three keys to shelters that can protect them from the room's bombs. Charles (Carlo Rota) is left to die in the explosion after Luba (Meagan Good) knocks him down and takes a key that he had taken from Mallick (Greg Bryk). The third room requires five electrical cables to be connected to a bathtub full of water in order to unlock the door (set to a countdown timer), but they are all too short to reach it. Luba attempts to use Mallick to complete the circuits, whereupon Brit (Julie Benz) fatally stabs her in the neck. By throwing her body in the tub and hooking all the cables to it, Brit and Mallick get the door open.
The exit door to the fourth and final room can only be opened by filling a beaker with ten pints of blood, to be obtained by the captives putting their arms into a box fitted with circular saws. Brit realizes that the five of them were meant to work together so that they could all survive to this point, and that each had been involved in a recent fire that killed eight people. With no other options, she and Mallick begin sawing their arms to fill the beaker themselves.
While these games are playing out, Hoffman steals Strahm’s cell phone and uses it to make Strahm’s boss, Dan Erickson (Mark Rolston), suspect that Strahm is Jigsaw's accomplice. He plants the phone and Erickson's own personnel file outside the exit from the fourth room, and Erickson arrives there just as Brit and Mallick get the door open. Both pass out from blood loss as Erickson calls for backup; he then puts out an all-points bulletin for Strahm's arrest.
Strahm’s investigation brings him to a small underground room that contains a transparent box full of glass shards. A recorder inside the box delivers a message from Hoffman: Strahm will have to trust him and get in the box if he wants to survive. Instead, Strahm stops the tape short and ambushes Hoffman when he enters the room, eventually throwing him into the box and closing it. When the door to the room suddenly slams shut and locks, Hoffman advises Strahm to finish the tape. As the box sinks into the floor, the tape explains that if Strahm does not comply, he will die in that room with Jigsaw's legacy becoming his own. Strahm then attempts to escape the room when the walls begin to move inward, but is eventually crushed to death while Hoffman watches from below.
(Source: wikipedia.org，英語點津 Julie編輯）
