This is hard core Pain And Suffering territory... The film wastes no time getting down to nasty business, ripping, slicing, gouging, piercing, smashing and tearing every part of the human body
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10/27/07
Saw IV (2007)
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Reviews Counted:68
Fresh:12
Rotten:56
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Saw IV is more disturbing than compelling, with material already seen in the prior installments.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $63,270,259
Synopsis: The fourth SAW film takes fans into uncharted waters. Now that John/Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is dead, screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan (writers of the Project Greenlight-produced FEAST)... [More]
Starring: Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Costas Mandylor
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Reviews for Saw IV
Top CriticIt's a been-there, done-that sort of sequel, but it's still more creative than most of what passes for Hollywood horror these days.
10/26/07
With Saw IV, the pieces have all come together and [it's] the best of the lot.
10/25/07
By far the best installment of this cringingly moronic odyssey of pain. There's something to be said about leaving a theater with only a mild cultural headache instead of a knee-buckling case of cinematic depression.
10/26/07
Despite the clucking disapproval of the cinematic intelligentsia, the Saw films aren’t successful by accident.
10/31/07
Easily the worst entry in the series, and the first one that undeniably feels like a sloppily thrown-together rush job.
10/26/07
Saw IV is a fluid film, as neatly constructed as the deadly puzzles Jigsaw creates to snare his victims.
10/29/07
It's deeply unsettling; just like a horror movie should be.
10/30/07
Saw IV almost makes you believe there are hundreds of rooms out there at this very minute with puppets, tricycles, and audio tapes just waiting for the next game.
10/26/07
Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles
11/01/07
If it ever had a prime, the Saw franchise is well past it...a mess...and an ugly mess at that.
10/27/07
Even fans of good, old-fashioned, onscreen torture will find themselves rolling their eyes at the twists and turns in this impossibly convoluted story.
10/26/07
Might be the best since the first, but still a task to watch. A painful, meaningless task.
11/04/07
The absurdity reaches new highs in Saw IV, which asks us to swallow developments that simply aren't logistically possible, never mind realistic.
10/29/07
After two solid entries and an OK one, the franchise is getting long in the tooth: This one is Saw It Be-IV.
10/29/07
There's more gore in store. Now here's "Saw IV."
11/01/07
Torture, you may recall, used to be an unparsable, unpardonable sin. Now it's porn.
11/17/07
If the original Saw was the kernel of a potential terror universe, Saw IV is, by this time, a series of satellites and lesser celestial bodies bound together by some of the best bloodletting in modern macabre.
10/26/07
Like many villains before him, John turns out to have been wronged rather randomly, an act of terrible violence that he absorbs into his worldview.
11/14/07
As far as fourth installments in a series, Saw IV is quite impressive.
10/26/07
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