Saw IV
Jigsaw (Bell) and his apprentice Amanda (Smith) are now dead (or are they?). Two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive at the depleted police precinct and help veteran Detective Hoffman sift through Jigsaw's puzzle. However, when SWAT Commander Rigg (Bent), the last officer untouched by Jigsaw, is suddenly abducted and thrust into the madman's harrowing game, the officer has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of interconnected traps... or face the deadly consequences.
The genesis of Jigsaw's evil will be unveiled, exposing the puppet master's true intentions and the sinister plan for his past, present and future victims.
- Director:
- Darren Lynn Bousman ('Butterfly Dreams', 'Saw II', 'Saw III')
- Writer:
- Patrick MeltonMarcus Dunstan
- Cast:
- Tobin BellCostas MandylorLyriq BentShawnee Smith
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressEven by the standards of the recent "Saws," which have enjoyed considerably larger budgets than the first pic, the new edition is more frenetically cut (by editors Kevin Greutert and Brett Sullivan), more dimly lit (by lenser David A. Armstrong), sweatier in terms of perfs by the grimly serious cast, more madly packed with micro-incidents and action, and more brazen in requiring suspension of disbelief...
Hollywood Reporter
pressDirector Darren Lynn Bousman, who also helmed the past two installments, doesn't deviate from the stylistic formula, which includes grinding industrial music, frenzied editing and a blue-gray color palette...
San Francisco Chronicle
pressOne more small thing: Every other scene in Saw IV starts and ends with a potential victim pressing "play" on a tape recorder, to the point where it's almost funny...
Premiere Magazine
pressThough the series seemed like a great concept three years ago, it's now just a repeated assault on the senses, designed strictly for the gross-out crowd, and disturbs rather than scares...
Film Threat
pressFor 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...
Christchurch Press
pressThe series seems headed down the path of the Nightmare on Elm St movies, with an increasingly bizarre backstory trying to piece together a patchwork of gruesome set pieces...
Variety
pressEven by the standards of the recent "Saws," which have enjoyed considerably larger budgets than the first pic, the new edition is more frenetically cut (by editors Kevin Greutert and Brett Sullivan), more dimly lit (by lenser David A. Armstrong), sweatier in terms of perfs by the grimly serious cast, more madly packed with micro-incidents and action, and more brazen in requiring suspension of disbelief...
Hollywood Reporter
pressDirector Darren Lynn Bousman, who also helmed the past two installments, doesn't deviate from the stylistic formula, which includes grinding industrial music, frenzied editing and a blue-gray color palette...
San Francisco Chronicle
pressOne more small thing: Every other scene in Saw IV starts and ends with a potential victim pressing "play" on a tape recorder, to the point where it's almost funny...
Premiere Magazine
pressThough the series seemed like a great concept three years ago, it's now just a repeated assault on the senses, designed strictly for the gross-out crowd, and disturbs rather than scares...
Film Threat
pressFor 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...
Christchurch Press
pressThe series seems headed down the path of the Nightmare on Elm St movies, with an increasingly bizarre backstory trying to piece together a patchwork of gruesome set pieces...
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