Saw IV

  • 2007


MOVIE IS arrogant horrifying serious perversely
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18 % Rotten
$ 139 Million
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Positive Reviews 13
Negative reviews 34
Average Rating 2.0/5
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3.0
A commercially savvy though ultimately empty combination of warped morality tale, mystery, gore fest, and torture porn. Av Club
2.0
Advertisement With this perversely unforgiving sense of morality, Saw IV pushes the old slasher movie trope of disproportionately punishing victims fo .. Av Club
2.0
The reports of torture porns demise may have been greatly exaggerated, but this fourth entry in the mutilate yourself or die series joins what may be .. EW
4.5
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. Common Sense Media
0.8
The need to incorporate familiar characters and icons from the earlier films, together with flashbacks that flesh out Jigsaws pre puppet master past, .. Time Out
2.5
Torture, you may recall, used to be an unparsable, unpardonable sin. Now its porn.
1.0
Jigsaw is an interesting character with an interesting worldview and an interesting way of carrying out his will. Its too bad the movies themselves ar .. E Film Critic
1.0
Two of the more degrading and debasing hours of big screen entertainment that you are likely to endure in this lifetime. E Film Critic
2.0
By far the best installment of this cringingly moronic odyssey of pain. Theres something to be said about leaving a theater with only a mild cultural .. E Film Critic
1.3
Unfortunately, theres way too much story, at the expense of pacing, logic and the creative carnage that has made the franchise so much sickening fun t .. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Previously, Jigsaw and the filmmakers played fair, but too much about this latest instalment seems simply arbitrary.
3.5
The franchise definitely doesnt hold back on the gore factor, which is kind of cool in an era where so many movies shoot for the PG 13 crowd. Cinema Blend
2.5
This death trap may be rusty, but as long as it keeps generating fresh blood, its unlikely to slam shut anytime soon. Ny Daily News
2.0
If it ever had a prime, the Saw franchise is well past it...a mess...and an ugly mess at that. One Guys Opinion
1.9
He stays dead, although that doesnt mean hes absent from the movie. ReelViews
2.5
Those of us who quickly tired of the grisly fun and games midway through Saw II will resent the unnecessarily convoluted plotting and storylines that .. Tv Guide
3.1
Were it not for the saving grace of Tobin Bells mere presence, theres little doubt that Saw IV would come off about as well as a typical straight to v .. Reel Film Reviews
2.0
Everything thats not set in a Jigsaw torture lair is tedious and over acted. Eric Ds Nider
1.5
While the acting is far from spectacular in this installment, nobody stinks up the place as bad as Danny Glover and Cary Elwes did in chapter one, so .. News Review
2.5
http://www.kylesmithonline.com SAW IV Not the sharpest tool in the shed. New York Post
0.5
The absurdity reaches new highs in Saw IV, which asks us to swallow developments that simply arent logistically possible, never mind realistic. Film Journal International ..
0.6
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. Boston
1.5
What newcomer scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan offer isnt remotely clever, being nothing more than a heavy reliance on flashbacks and a rehas .. Mountain X
1.5
Saw IV doesnt seem to acknowledge this as it gives us a rushed and stale torture storyline. Film Inquiry
4.5
But credibility isnt the films strong point after all; this is hard core Pain And Suffering territory.
1.9
Easily the worst entry in the series, and the first one that undeniably feels like a sloppily thrown together rush job. The Movie Boy
1.9
At a certain point you have to wonder how long audiences are going to keep flocking to this stuff. Movie Freak
1.5
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. Boxoffice Magazine
2.0
The series has essentially become a shell game, entertaining for a while if you can stomach the gore, and then the credits roll and youre pretty sure .. E Online
3.0
As far as fourth installments in a series, Saw IV is quite impressive. Film School Rejects
1.5
Like the movies mysterious Jigsaw doppelgnger, Saw IV is itself a poor substitute for the original (or even the first two sequels). La Weekly
1.0
Perfunctory and confusing and needlessly over plotty...but somewhat better constructed and significantly less morally outrageous than at the very leas .. Antagony & Ecstasy
1.3
Saw IV isnt particularly scary, suspenseful or horrifying..its simply graphic to the point of nonsensical violence.
3.1
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 effec .. Movie Crypt
2.0
Believe it or not, theres still plenty of mileage in the Saw series yet. The Shiz Nit
1.0
Fortunately, amid all the slavishly photographed grotesquery, theres comic relief. Its called the script. Jam! Movies
2.0
as cheap and cheesy as its brethren, but oddly boring for long stretches Filmcritic.com
1.5
Despite the clucking disapproval of the cinematic intelligentsia, the Saw films arent successful by accident. IGN Movies
3.0
Even fans of good, old fashioned, onscreen torture will find themselves rolling their eyes at the twists and turns in this impossibly convoluted story .. Detroit News
0.0
Boasting more posthumous recordings than Tupac, Jigsaw should have spent time devising clever new traps instead of buying Radio Shacks entire inventor .. Metromix.com
2.5
Opens with the clinically graphic dissection of the deceased Jigsaw, who finally lives up to (dies down to) his name by being separated into pieces... Commercial Appeal
3.5
Saw IV is a perfectly serviceable sequel to a series that, for all intents and purposes, shouldve gone to outer space by now. Dread Central
1.0
The Saw franchise lost its potency after Saw II, whichwith its intense action and over the top wickednesswas quite a hoot, and a serious improvement o .. Ear Of Newt
4.5
Its not only gory and twisted, but its genuinely suspenseful, well acted, and has a satisfyingly shocking finale. Horror
2.0
The puzzles in this movie and the infinite number of sequels which have already been queued behind it have been designed to tear the dead presidents f .. Movie Juice
2.5
The games, the traps, are still the thing and as long as Jigsaws flunkies continue to build em, we will come. Imdb
3.0
Its a been there, done that sort of sequel, but its still more creative than most of what passes for Hollywood horror these days. FEARnet
1.9
We now find ourselves in the downward slope of the Saw series as Saw IV stretches credibility to the breaking point. Cinema Sight
1.5
...parts of it are good, and the rest really feels like cynical photocopying. LYTRules.com
1.5
... any serious consideration of the killers fascination with violence is superseded by the directors (and the returning viewers) own sadistic pleasur .. DVD Review
3.0
Saw IV has a nice twist ending actually three twists in one and might be the best of the sequels. Black Horror Movies
1.9
He isnt a cold, arrogant and self involved doctor, a hot headed and crooked cop or a grieving father whose personality has been twisted by a craving f .. matthewrozsa.com
3.0
Serras new film, the audaciously perverse and amorphous Libert, doesnt give up its game so readily.



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