Saw IV (2007)

You think it is over...but the games have just begun

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Release Date: Oct 25, 2007
Rated: R | Runtime: 96 Mins | Language: English
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Stars: Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent, Louis Ferreira, Athena Karkanis

Summary

Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through Jigsaw's latest grisly remains and piecing together the puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend...or face the deadly consequences.

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What to Expect

Saw 4 starts off with John Kramer, aka The Jigsaw Killer, laid out on a medical examiners slab. A very graphic autopsy ensues that leads to the discovery of a "I want to play a game" tape lodged in his intestines that talks of a new game targeting Lieutenant Hoffman, the last living detective from the original case.

Cut to a guy in a mausoleum chained to another guy. One guy has his eyelids sewn shut while the other has his lips sewn shut. The key to free the lips guy is wrapped around the eyes guy's neck. Of course he can't tell him this because of the lips thing and the eyes guy can't trust what he can't see. A clever Jigsaw trap from beyond the grave.

Saw 4 revolves around Hoffman and his team's investigation to figure out who is helping Jigsaw and/or Amanda, Jigsaw's original sidekick. As the investigation unspools we also learn more about Jigsaw's roots via an interrogation of his ex wife.< Read more...

This is the first movie in the Saw series so far that feels repetitive. It's just more of the same. Sure, there's a bit more background on what happened in Saw 3, but really it's just more traps. Not a bad thing, I mean if you're watching Saw 4 it's what you came to see, it just doesn't bring anything new to the table.

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Critic Reviews:

Despite being pretty complicated at times, this is a pretty solid installment in the series, and a good way to bridge the first three with the final three.

– DeviantArt

Saw IV will likely sate the appetite of long-term, hardcore fans of the franchise, but it offers nothing to anyone who does not fall into that category.

– Reelviews

I think Saw IV falls flat in a number of areas. The acting is fine, but it all feels like a rehashed, re-telling of the previous movies.

– HNN