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Saw IV (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.7/10
Reviews Counted: 72
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 60

Saw IV is more disturbing than compelling, with material already seen in the prior installments.

Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 15

Saw IV is more disturbing than compelling, with material already seen in the prior installments.

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Just when audiences thought they'd heard the last of the demented killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), here comes Saw IV, continuing his trap-filled legacy -- this time, targeting the last remaining officer who has touched the case, SWAT Commander Rigg (Lyriq Bent). As FBI agents Strahm (Scott Patterson) and Perez (Athena Karkanis) begin to dig through the remains of Jigsaw's crime-scene hideout, a new puzzle presents itself, with Rigg as the pawn in another deadly game filled with moral quandaries and

R, 1 hr. 32 min.

Mystery & Suspense, Horror

Directed By: Marcus Dunstan , Darren Lynn Bousman

Written By: Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan

In Theaters: Oct 26, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Jan 22, 2008

Box Office:$63.3M

Lionsgate Films

The reports of torture porn's demise may have been greatly exaggerated, but this fourth entry in the mutilate-yourself-or-die series joins what may be the worst genre of the decade: the lamely ''sympathetic'' serial-killer backstory.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

This death trap may be rusty, but as long as it keeps generating fresh blood, it's unlikely to slam shut anytime soon.

October 29, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

Just as Jigsaw tests his victims, the franchise's own test will be whether such suspension can be maintained, or if matters lapse into a torture chamber of self-parody.

October 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Variety

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Robert Koehler

Variety

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An incomprehensible cacophony of screams, shock cuts, dour pseudo-philosophizing, heavy metal mutilation and low-rent TV-standard performances.

October 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

The Syriana of slasher films, so complicated and circuitous that your only hope of understanding everything is to eat lots of fish the night before and then watch each of the previous films, in order, right before you enter the theater.

October 29, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

It's somewhat better put together than Saw II or III, though there isn't a scare in it.

October 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

We now find ourselves in the downward slope of the Saw series as Saw IV stretches credibility to the breaking point.

October 31, 2009 Full Review Source: Oscar Guy

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Wesley Lovell

Oscar Guy

Jigsaw is an interesting character with an interesting worldview and an interesting way of carrying out his will. It's too bad the movies themselves aren't worthy of him.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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...

July 22, 2008 Full Review | Comment

Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

Poor Jigsaw. The architect of the most deadly traps ever committed to celluloid has endured inoperable cancer, a debilitating car crash and even the premature death of his son, but nothing as painful or degrading as 'Saw IV.'

April 10, 2008 Comment

Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

There is nothing spectacular included here, but fans of the Saw franchise should easily be satisfied by what is offered on this DVD.

February 27, 2008 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

... any serious consideration of the killer's fascination with violence is superseded by the director's (and the returning viewers') own sadistic pleasures.

February 27, 2008 Full Review Source: DVD Review

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Felix Gonzalez Jr.

DVD Review

Director Darren Lynn Bousman, helming his third sequel in a row, has plenty of gratuitous style to enhance the gratuitous violence and sadistic torture devices...

January 22, 2008 Full Review Source: MSN.com

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Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

[It has a] not only an entertaining yak-track, it's also quite informative. I have seen all the Saw movies, each of them at least two or three times, and I learned quite a lot from the verbal puzzle-piecing.

January 19, 2008 Full Review Source: Horror.com

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Staci Layne Wilson

Horror.com Source: Horror.com

Outro t�pico exemplar da s�rie: o final, como de h�bito, � at� engenhoso, mas a f�rmula cada vez mais desgastada exige paci�ncia at� que cheguemos a ele.

January 8, 2008 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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.

December 26, 2007 Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com

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Kevin A. Ranson

MovieCrypt.com

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Audience Reviews for Saw IV

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Saw IV is a bad film to make, and I know realize they should have stopped making Saw films after the first one. The plot is very boring, after the second film I thought "oh cool, this will all be one big story," but now I realize they are running out of ideas and are now making crappy sequels just to make money, and i

August 18, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

This is one of my least favourite Saw movies and that depresses me because it has a lot of good in it, yet somehow between trying to give us the history of John Kramer (Jigsaw) and keep up with the usual inovative gore fest that we know, I think this movie got a little lost along the way. It seemed hurried, overplotted

August 27, 2011

Unknown Hobo

Super Reviewer

Saw IV Quotes

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1. Tracy: What you can't do, is save everyone.
– Submitted by Rob B (8 months ago)
1. Cecil: I don't have a fucking soul.
– Submitted by Rob B (8 months ago)
1. Agent Strahm: Girl loves boy, Boy loves girl. Boy gets girl pregnant, Girl loses baby... boy turns into a serial killer. Jill, I'm not buying it.
– Submitted by Rob B (8 months ago)
1. Jigsaw/John: You don't want to do that.
2. Cecil: The fuck's your problem?
3. Jigsaw/John: You're my problem... and you're becoming everybody else's too.
– Submitted by Rob B (8 months ago)
1. Art: I recommend that you stay alive until the fucking... clock counts down.
– Submitted by Rob B (8 months ago)

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