导演：大卫•海克尔

主演：托宾•贝尔 斯科特•帕特森 朱莉•本茨

类型：动作/惊悚/犯罪/恐怖/悬疑

上映日期： 2008年10月24日 美国

推荐指数：★★★★

剧情介绍

前四集中所有挑战电锯的人都是非死即残，约翰的尸体还在医院的停尸房，李戈警官身负重伤躺在仓库里，探员皮尔兹在医院里养伤，探员斯特拉木依旧失踪……当然，这样哀鸿遍野的结果比起当初被屠戮的过程来说已经是天上人间了。在这里，杀人和刑罚早已经突破了道德约束的疆界升级成为了一种艺术。暴力美学这种后现代词汇当然不足以形容在这里发生的一切，人类残忍的本能似乎才是影片真正的主旨。总之，这一集中，各种虐杀又可以让血浆迷们大饱眼福了。而这一次的倒霉鬼是一个叫做霍夫曼的侦探——如果简洁的说，这一句话就可以概括本片全部的剧情了，众所周知，剧情在这里只是一个借口，对人肉血淋淋的烹炒煎炸才是影片的主菜……

推荐理由

自从第一集以密室生存与杀戮作为噱头之后，随后的几集都在第一集的基础上进一步延伸其剧情，于是关于“坚锯”老者的背景、杀人的深层动机等等逐一呈现，而杀人狂的新信奉者、警察的侦破过程等等新加入的元素也使得续集的内容更加丰富。当然，最核心的故事，依然是那些从睡梦中醒来茫然不知，却要面对恐怕是人生中最残酷的一次考验的实验者们……在这一集内，以往4集中留下的诸多疑点将会在本集内逐步揭开。

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，英语点津 Julie编辑）