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 CriticIf the gore quotient has been upped in this chapter (really, after a certain threshold has been reached, who can tell?), the style has, too.
10/29/07
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
Despite the clucking disapproval of the cinematic intelligentsia, the Saw films aren’t successful by accident.
10/31/07
Saw IV is a fluid film, as neatly constructed as the deadly puzzles Jigsaw creates to snare his victims.
10/29/07
Were it not for the saving grace of Tobin Bell's mere presence, there's little doubt that Saw IV would come off about as well as a typical straight-to-video horror sequel.
11/21/07
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
It's deeply unsettling; just like a horror movie should be.
10/30/07
Whereas the first Saw and the third met the right balance, the second film and now the fourth push things a little too far and end up being less effective as a result.
12/26/07
As far as fourth installments in a series, Saw IV is quite impressive.
10/26/07
There's more gore in store. Now here's "Saw IV."
11/01/07
It'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
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10/18/08
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
The series has essentially become a shell game, entertaining for a while if you can stomach the gore, and then the credits roll and you're pretty sure you've been cheated somehow.
10/29/07
I do wish that these movies were well made, because I actually think the premises are quite clever, but unless a veteran who is more confident in his abilities takes over, we are left with what could have been...
07/22/08
Might be the best since the first, but still a task to watch. A painful, meaningless task.
11/04/07
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11/02/07
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
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