Saw V

This may be the least exciting part in the Saw series.

Don't get me wrong, there is blood and guts a-plenty, but there is also a lot of talking. And I mean a lot. Time line wise, this is even more confusing than parts III and IV, which are happen parallel each other. This is before and alongside those two. I think.

Anyway, this is cop against cop. The not-so-nice-guy (Agent Strahm) and the I-am-so-mean-I-don't-ever-smile-(and-if-I-would-it-would-probably-be-creepy)-guy (Mark Hoffman) are kind of hunting each other. Just to be clear, Hoffman is the bad guy in this scenario. This was established at the end of part IV. I think.

While this happens, a group of people have to go through their own private hell. They only stop to figure out their connection and what Jigsaw meant to go against their instinct when it is too late for most of them. Whether or not the last one standing actually survives is not quite clear. (Also irrelevant.) An ambulance gets called on her behalf but that is the last we get on that situation. This person is played by Julie Benz.With dark hair that looks totally like a wig.

In the end, Agent Strahm is asked to trust in Jigsaw to trust him when he tells him that the only way out alive is to climb into this hear casket filled with shards of glass. Strahm, of course, hasn't learn anything from hunting the culprit(s) and - in a fight - throws his new nemesis Hoffman into said casket. Hoffman is saved, Strahm is being squashed to death.

5/10

The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day

Connor and Murphy have disappeared from Boston and spent the last 8 years herding sheep in Ireland, when a hit on a priest, made to look like they did it, draws them back to clear out the leftovers.

The opponent this time around is the son of their last victim, the Italian mob boss they executed very publicly in a court room. They have to deal with a short (5'5") assassin (killer of said priest) and a whole posse of bad guys. Yet again they are aided by a few local cops as well as FBI special agent Eunice Bloom, who picks right up where agent Smecker has left off in part one.

They also get a new sidekick, Romeo, who they first come in contact with on they journey overseas. The three take out the majority of the bad guys. Of course, nothing ever goes according to Connor's cunning plans, which makes it all the more amusing.

However, it turns out that the local mob guys are not really in charge of what was orchestrated. Behind everything is someone only referred to as 'The Old Man' or, once 'The Roman', who turns out to be an old acquaintance of Poppa MacManus.

Much like part one, funny and full of quotable one liners.

8/10