Sometimes I am envious of people who enjoy watching “Saw” and I can’t possibly deny that I would like to learn how to value this blood drenched franchise (if one can actually become skilled at this) taking into account a more intuitive and primitive intensity. Sending shattering screams together with other eager moviegoers when pandemonium sets off, blood pours like water, corpses fill the grey grounds and Jigsaw’s bequest is entwined even further into an inconceivable conundrum only the most serene out there were able to cope with… It sounds horrifyingly appealing. However, tempting often equals impossible and this case makes no exception. When I watch a “Saw” movie I can’t help analyzing the cheap values, the dreadful performances and the damp sequence of events that has simply slipped away from the merest reality standards. Then what is it that holds the horror franchise together? Evidently, the superfluous eagerness of dismay fans, excessive bewilderment, and the magnanimous scenery of Halloween time of year.

Thus, if you have a weakness for observing people being disfigured in ingenious, yet distressing manners, “Saw V” will come as a moderately entertaining film.

As we got used to, this movie starts on where its prequel stopped, so you can’t just take a bite out of the living without looking into the dead. Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) is trying to fill the shoes of Jigsaw, giving outlaws a final lesson before they face supreme judgment.

In the meantime, several people captured by Hoffman (including Meagan Good and Julie Benz) are going all-out to understand why he did this to them and if they can escape the torture chamber safe and sound. Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) goes on with his extreme pursue of the new lunatic. Nevertheless, is he close enough or is he just approaching a hallucination?

David Hackl is in the position of “Saw” director for the first time, but as everyone else who has helped create an installment, he is far from being a stranger to the series, since he served as production designer for three movies.

I never thought the “Saw” legacy would get this far, although its diabolical tricks lost their originality with every succeeding sequel. And it seems that the new episodes are more torturing than ever… at least for viewers. It’s Trick or Treat season and candies appear to be more fun than boring bloody slayings lacking an innovative touch.

Jigsaw’s fans, on the other hand, must surely disagree. But Jigsaw is dead, remember?