Every Twist In The Saw Franchise - Ranked From Worst To Best

9. The Test Subjects Needed To Work Together, Strahm Gets Killed & Framed As Jigsaw (Saw V)

Saw V boasts the most predictable and low-effort plot twists of the entire series, so mild and unimaginative that they can barely even be called twists at all.

The movie's marketing boldly boasted "you won't believe how it ends," and while technically true, the twists ultimately mustered a very different kind of disbelief than the filmmakers were presumably expecting.

The first reveal relates to the five focal test subjects, who were all involved in causing a building fire which killed eight people.

Jigsaw makes it clear early on that they all need to work together against their selfish instincts, so the climactic confirmation that they all could've survived by teaming up lands with a whimper.

And anyone hoping for a jaw-dropping climactic surprise was sure to be left yawning when it turned out - shocker! - that Agent Strahm (Scott Patterson) ends up crushed to death because he refuses to listen to Hoffman's (Costas Mandylor) "advice." Worse still, he gets framed as Jigsaw.

Hoffman being lowered into the floor while Strahm dies is just too silly, even for Saw, and because both of these reveals were telegraphed far in advance, Saw V ended on the biggest "Is that it?" shoulder shrug of the entire series.