SAW IV

Ok, we are back and here we go: Saw IV released on October 26th, 2007, starring Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Donnie Wahlberg and a bunch of people I've never heard of. Directed once again by Darren Lynn Bousman. Movie grossed 63m domestic, 139m worldwide, so a bit down from the previous 2, and this is where things started to go downhill.



0:00: Lionsgate and twisted pictures still doing there thing. Now from what I remember about this film, I thought it was ok, but then I really liked the twist at the end or atleast the concept of the twist. We start of with jigsaws dead body laid out on the autopsy table, so he's actually dead now, right? He looks dead, so off the a bad start if he is actually dead.

0:04: Said it before and I'll say it again, nothing like a little brain surgery to spice up a horror film.

0:05: Ooh a audio recorder tape in his stomach, even dead this Jigsaw is a crafty fellow. Hoffman is the one that gets called in, how convenient.

0:07: Nice little trap here, one gut with his mouth sewn shut, one guys with his eyes sewn shut, looking kinda like that dude in the Man in a Box video.

0:09: Ok, so after the dude with his mouth sewn shut kills the other dude, he rips open his mouth, why the hell didn't he just do that to being with if he was gonna do it at all? And once again random killings at the beginning that don't seem to have anything to do with anything.

0:11: So remember the chick cop that go killed early on in 3, police are just finding her now, interesting.

0:14: Uh Oh, the new guy is onto something, clearly wasn't Jigsaw and couldn't be Amanda, so then who killed her?

0:18: Ok, so now that jigsaw is dead?, in order to keep him the film, they are gonna give him a lot of his back story, his ex-wife, what he used to do, lots of flashbacks coming our way in this one.

0:20: Hoffman and Rigg both getting attacked, but by who, creepy doll is back, sounds like jigsaw, what is happening? and Donnie Wahlberg is still alive, but is standing on a block of ice which is connected to Hoffman's life, or is it?

0:24: They decided to do a similar thing in this movie that they did in the last movie, which is have random people hooked up to the traps and increase the kills, but no really have it people that you totally have to know or care about, which works well.

0:27: Pretty messed up, guy saves the chick but she was a criminal, so she was told that she had to kill him, messed up games being played in this one.

0:30: Now we get to see what happened to Donnie, after what happened to him in 3 which was really right after 2, but then there was some kinda of time that went by cause he has a beard now.

0:32: The new guy Strahm seems to know way too much about all this stuff and figured it out pretty fast, that seems suspicious, no?

0:34: It would be pretty funny if while all hung up in the trap Donnie Wahlberg just broke out some Hangin' Tough, and it would be appropriate.

0:36: Whoa, Rigg gets the pig mask, thought that was Amanda's but she's dead now, so I guess it doesn't matter, or is she?

0:38: More flashbacks, seems like jigsaw was a nice guy trying to do the right thing before the world crushed him, but was it just the cancer or was there more too it, looks like we are gonna find out, At this point of the series, it just seems like this could have worked better almost as a TV show rather than a series of movies, way to much back story and information that seems to be thrown at us to have to wait a whole year to find out more.

0:40: That creepy doll, apparently he made it for his unborn child it seems? what the hell kind of kid would want something that looks like that?

0:44: Pretty messed up fat dude, raped and killed women who stayed at his motel or whatever the hell it's supposed to be, guy deserves to die, wouldn't have any qualms about hooking that guy up to that device if I was Rigg.

0:49: So, now we know why jigsaw was born, a drug addict caused his wife to have a miscarriage breaking into the client that she ran and stealing drugs, it all makes sense now.

0:51: A lawyer named Art Blank, uh, sure he doesn't own the Falcons, which btw, why the hell does Bon Jovi want to have ownership in the Falcons now, what connection does he have at all to Atlanta? Stay in your own area Bon Jovi.

0:54: Ok, so the guy that is running the game for Donnie and Hoffman is a lawyer, Art Blank perhaps?, and also noticed one of the things that they started doing in the movie that I actually found kinda annoying, they would have scenes lead into each other, so like there is one scene and then a dude that is in the next scene would like walk into the scene and it would be the next scene, kinda weird. Can't really remember if they did it in other movies or not, but I feel like they did.

watch lists, you know just incase one of them loses their minds and start actually making this kinda of stuff up in real life?

1:00: Donnie is losing it.

1:02: For whatever reason in horror films or whatever, there's always that random person that's just minding their own business and then somehow gets killed by some random thing.

1:04: Stupid idiot, that's what you get for getting too close to that creepy doll, thing is messed up, it was only a matter of time until it actually killed someone.

1:08: More flashbacks, we find out Art Blanks history with jigsaw, and more with that doll.

1:11: So, jigsaw's first victim was the man who killed his unborn son, can't fault him for that, can you? and there were pig masks involved.

1:13: "I can't give you time, noone can, time is an illusion."  good quote

1:15: As his first trap, this blades to the face to release the restraints was pretty good, not nearly as elaborate as his later ones of course, guy got out of it after all, but then got himself stuck in another. Meanwhile was that just a flashback within a flashback, this is like Inception all of a sudden.

1:20: Wait a second why was there an empty box that didn't have a card in it, what is going on here?

1:22: Ok, so they did a nice job of connecting the guy at the beginning with his mouth sewn shot, it was Art Blank, but what would have happened if the other guy came out?

1:23: Wait a minute, way are they showing the ending of Saw III all of a sudden?

1:24: You know when they always say in horror movies, don't go in that door, well Rigg should have listened to that, shouldn't have opened that door, now Donnie is dead.

1:26: Ok, so Strahm just walked into the end of Saw III, and killed that guy. which brings up the issue, this was all happening at the same time.

1:27: Uh on, looks like Hoffman was working with jigsaw the whole time. The new Amanda.

1:29: So the ending was the beginning, and the beginning was the ending. Which leads to the more important question, was this even really a sequel? I mean, it wasn't after III, except the part at the autopsy, it was happening at the same time, so what would you call that a Sidequel, a samequel? With all the flashbacks I guess you could kinda say it was kinda a prequel somewhat, but not really.

Ok, so not sure where I would rank this one, probably better than II, the twist was better than in III, but not sure it was better then III, certainly nowhere near the first one,. But there it is, SAW IV, now moving on to SAW V, this is where it gets real tough I think.