Saw IV (2007)

Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

Better Late Then Never

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Plummeting into the sea of excess gore & violence, the 4th chapter of the Saw franchise continues to explore Jigsaw's background despite his demise in the preceding instalment and is as useless as sequels can get, for Saw III finished the saga on a satisfying, if not memorable, note and another one was certainly not required.There isn't much to mention about its plot. It takes the basic outline of the franchise i.e. trapping a few people in the sadistic games to make them pay for their misdeeds, and runs along with it. The few minute details that weren't tied up in the previous chapter are dealt with here, poorly. And the ending only signifies that there's more to come.Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw IV begins with Jigsaw's post-mortem, depicted in graphic detail, and it only gets more gruesome & violent from that point onwards. There's no real effort to streamline its narrative as the film is simply an array of one booby trap after another that do their job while the numerous twists n turns are hardly convincing.The story is heavily reliant on flashbacks and is unable to find a balance between the events set in past & ones unfolding in present. There's an effort to keep its look n feel in close proximity with its predecessors and Tobin Bell's performance as John Kramer/Jigsaw is able to keep things together to an extent but it isn't enough to overcome the massive shortcomings evident in other aspects.The film has no interest in telling a compelling story and solely exists to appease those who are content with on-screen violence even when narrative takes a backseat. The characters are mostly dull, torture sequences are devoid of any imagination, and the film as a whole is unable to justify its existence plus it is severely lacking in both direction & purpose. Only for die-hard fans of the franchise.

Saw 4 (2007): Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman / Cast: Tobin Bell, Scott Paterson, Lyrig Bent, Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor: More bodies being mutilated in all sorts of methods. Jigsaw is dead but a tape is found in his body and played thus leading to a series of events to find two missing detectives. Detective Rigg follows the clues that lead to traps set to punish those whom have committed criminal acts against innocent people. Structure is detailed but violence is graphic. Director Darren Lynn Bousman is skillful but he needs to grow beyond the Saw franchise, which he has been part of since the first two sequels. Tobin Bell is seen in flashbacks as the cancer ridden Jigsaw. As the film opens, he is dead but we are given his relationship with the Betsy Russell character. Scott Patterson plays a detective who targets Russell for questions before learning where the traps are rigged. Lyrig Bent plays another detective who is the latest victim tested with gruesome traps that will advance himself and give explicit justice to criminals who have gotten away until now. Betsy Russell plays the stunning vixen who is revealed to be a target. She tells of her miscarriage and destroyed marriage before her relationship to Jigsaw. Costas Mandylor plays the detective listening to a tape and being tested. The ending rots like its victims in its disgusting display that opens for another sequel. Score: 5 / 10

Finding one of the newest crime scenes, an FBI profiler tries to track down the truth about the murders while attempting to make sure a fellow officer caught in another game doesn't become another victim of Jigsaw's legacy.While this one certainly had its moments, this one ended up being quite a troubling effort as well. What really stands out here is that the gore, as usual, saves this one with a multitude of brutal, bloody scenes here that are rather entertaining and fun. Starting with the opening autopsy of graphically removing many of the interior organs from his corpse and cutting the body open to reveal the contents of the new game, the first game to be played here where the two disfigured and chained figures are playing a demented version of tug-of-war that gets very messy as it goes along and the later scenes of the traps from the previous games all give this one some rather gory times though it's the main game featured here that gives this the most gruesome moments. The apartment encounter and the motel sequence are fine, while the biggest one here is the game at the school where the previous victims are found and really give this some solid and twisted moments here. While the final game results in some fine moments, just about everything else about this one serves it up even lower. The biggest flaw here is the continuous going's back to the past three films to try to make sure that whatever piles onto it makes sense. This was attempted previously in the last installment which really made no sense there and continues on here by instead making it clear those should be watched instead while offering the same problem as the previous one did in halting the traps to clear-up something from another film entirely. This also ties into another crippling factor here that there's so many subplots here that's just not that interesting at all, ranging from the relationship between the two and how he turned into a killer which is just annoying and not at all scary, the traps aren't confined like they used to be as leaving his handiwork out in the open in order for others to see and follow him is almost as if they just decided to throw them in there in order to stay connected to the series since they've all had them so this one should've as well which makes no sense if he's such a masterful serial killer while dealing with the current lesson, and there's so much to keep track of it's just not that worthwhile. The last problem here is that the lessons are stupid based on his own dubious morality that frankly doesn't seem all that likely to make an impact on someone at all based on how they're utilized here which is carried over from the others. These all help bring this one down from what it could've been.Rated R: Extreme Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

This movie is awful. The short 9 minute version of the first Saw movie is very scary. It 100000000000 time better then this pooh pooh. Saw (2004) is a better movie and that was awful. Saw II is better movie and that was awful. Saw III is a better movie and that was awful. This movie is badly written. It also badly edited. Dead bodies end up in to places at the same time. They are just don't know what there are doing. The ending is awful. This movie is pooh pooh. Do not see this movie. It is crap. It an overrated pile of stinky pile of pooh pooh with pee pee on top of it. Do not wast your money. Do not wast your time. This movie is not scary. It is just a big pile of pooh pooh.