The famously inventive torture sequences here seem depleted of imagination.
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10/29/07
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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.
Theatrical Release:Oct 26, 2007 Wide
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
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Reviews for Saw IV
The original Saw was crafted with thought and precision. Saw IV is an orgy of blood.
10/29/07
Top CriticThe 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
The dullest Saw in the shed.
10/29/07
A film as edgy as a rubber knife.
10/29/07
If 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
Saw IV is no Saw III. Just as Saw III is no Saw II. But neither Lionsgate, the Saw distributor, nor the North American box office seems to care.
10/29/07
Top CriticAfter 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
Top CriticFor devotees of the series, the gore is still there and the traps are just as weird as they were in the other entries but for the rest of us, your mind will forget it the second the end credits roll.
10/28/07
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
10/27/07
If it ever had a prime, the Saw franchise is well past it...a mess...and an ugly mess at that.
10/27/07
as cheap and cheesy as its brethren, but oddly boring for long stretches
10/27/07
Easily the worst and most pointless episode of the gore-saturated quadrology.
10/27/07
Top CriticOver the course of [its] sequels, the Saw franchise took a novel, if distasteful, idea and basically tortured it to death.
10/27/07
Top CriticA commercially savvy though ultimately empty combination of warped morality tale, mystery, gore-fest, and torture porn.
10/27/07
The appeal, I suppose, is that some really awful stuff is unfolding up there on the screen and not to us.
10/26/07
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
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
I can think of five things that are more torturous than what the victims endure in Saw IV...
10/26/07
An excessively convoluted rehash of its predecessors.
10/26/07
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