Saw IV came out,who knew,like I always say. The film follows a new police officer has to go out on a horrible walk through at what the new Jigsaw is going to do to these horrible,guilty,ya,ya,ya people..for some reason. So,when Saw IV came out,I was actually kind of excited also because of the cool posters they released all over the internet..Saw is neat..but it sequels can not be,so the film opened with one of the actual most gruesome scenes in horror cinematic history and I kind of though,like,what the hell?! This is not a opening scene,this is just some random strangers examining the body of Jigsaw,like..what the f*ck?! This is so stupid and then even worse,the next scene,yes,the trap with those two people,like sure its creative but its so dumb!! ITS SO Dumb! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS?! The next hour and a half of the film then bores us with awful gay writing,disgustingly horrible traps that make you wanna vomit on the woman beside you's shoes..I swear that did'int happen,na I was joking!! Saw IV..ahhhhh!..codswallop..

'Saw 4' to me was the last great entry into the original 'Saw' series. While some cracks had begun to appear (it is certainly not as good as the first 3 were and we'll get to why later) it is still a thoroughly enjoyable film that is both smart and brutal all at once. The twist ending is again brilliant and highly memorable and all the other traits we have become accustomed to in 'Saw' films are present.Any negatives mentioned here are being very nitpicky, however they are necessary to show why the film wasn't quite as good as the first three. The first thing is that this film doesn't have a unique identity like each of those films did. Each one of them was set up in a very simple, yet memorable way which stuck with you long after seeing it. 'Saw 4' is a little bit all over the place and hence doesn't have this quality. Being intricately complicated, in an incredibly simple set-up, was what made the first three so brilliant.The second thing is that a lot of traps weren't quite as creative as we had come to expect. Again, simplicity in the trap is the biggest strength. On this occasion it sometimes felt like too much thinking was required on the part of the audience and consequently we couldn't just sit back and enjoy them. There were some like that (like the kitchen knives one) however on those occasions I didn't feel like they were quite brutal enough to be memorable either.All nitpicking aside though this is still an exquisite horror film. The series gets a little shaky from here on out, so to have this as one final great entry was a pleasant surprise.

Plummeting into the sea of excess gore & violence, the 4th chapter of the Saw franchise continues to explore Jigsaw's background despite his demise in the preceding instalment and is as useless as sequels can get, for Saw III finished the saga on a satisfying, if not memorable, note and another one was certainly not required.There isn't much to mention about its plot. It takes the basic outline of the franchise i.e. trapping a few people in the sadistic games to make them pay for their misdeeds, and runs along with it. The few minute details that weren't tied up in the previous chapter are dealt with here, poorly. And the ending only signifies that there's more to come.Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw IV begins with Jigsaw's post-mortem, depicted in graphic detail, and it only gets more gruesome & violent from that point onwards. There's no real effort to streamline its narrative as the film is simply an array of one booby trap after another that do their job while the numerous twists n turns are hardly convincing.The story is heavily reliant on flashbacks and is unable to find a balance between the events set in past & ones unfolding in present. There's an effort to keep its look n feel in close proximity with its predecessors and Tobin Bell's performance as John Kramer/Jigsaw is able to keep things together to an extent but it isn't enough to overcome the massive shortcomings evident in other aspects.The film has no interest in telling a compelling story and solely exists to appease those who are content with on-screen violence even when narrative takes a backseat. The characters are mostly dull, torture sequences are devoid of any imagination, and the film as a whole is unable to justify its existence plus it is severely lacking in both direction & purpose. Only for die-hard fans of the franchise.

This film has a decent backstory on jigsaw, cool camera transition scenes, dims in comparison to jigsaw as the killer though. Jigsaw is what made this film series and now he is dead and can't help thinking you still want him to be alive. The films main character is Daniel Rigg a guy who wants to go around setting people up in traps the help Eric in his own game of jigsaws helper. The movie gives no reason why in the world he would do this other than he is obsessed with helping people and wanting to save them. Then why is he putting them in traps to save someone else? Why does he care about eric matthews so much? The movie doesn't say we are just supposed to not think I guess and just go along with it. The lawyer of jigsaws is part of his game as well and shows backstory on why jigsaw got so mad and became who he was after his pregnant wife was hurt by a druggie trying to get drugs from her clinic that she runs and bumped into her with the door and caused a miscarriage. He sets the guy in the trap (has to push his head through some knives) and he gets through it and comes after jigsaw and falls into a barbed wire cage. The guy would have to be a complete moron to fall for that. He just runs past john and jumps right in it. Yea right. I also kept thinking cant they have another kid? He tries to get victims to forgive others but he doesn't seem very forgiving himself. Seems like the saw franchise suffers what most other horror franchises do as well. It is revealed that one of the FBI agents that was part of the game is actually the new jigsaw and everyone else dies. They put dumb characters with no common sense and horrible lack of judgement into their films. It shows a lack of creativity and laziness when you do this and honestly is a pet peeve of mine but it's something that I have to ignore when I watch some horror movies.