Every Saw Film Ranked From Worst To Best

9. Saw V

Plot: FBI agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) chases Jigsaw apprentice Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), having figured out his true nature, while five luckless citizens are put through a brutal series of tests.

This won't be a controversial placement for the bottom spot, since this is often considered the worst of the Saw films and deservedly so.

Saw V can best be described as a 'nothing' movie. The traps are very bland, most of the many flashback scenes feel completely pointless, nothing interesting or weighty occurs and worst of all, this movie is so atrociously edited and put together that it doesn't even feel like a movie - rather, a group of dull, disconnected subplots that don't add up to anything.

Additionally, the acting is wildly inconsistent, the visuals are poor and the ending is laughably bad. Aside from a few neat moments such as the Water Cube trap, there's little to recommend this one.

Essentially, this one combines all the biggest problems with the weaker Saw movies - jarring non-linear storytelling, not enough characterisation and an emphasis on gore over substance or tension - and turns them up to eleven. As such, it feels very fair to call this the worst Saw film to date.