Synopsis
Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.
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Cast
- Tobin BellJohn Kramer / Jigsaw
- Costas MandylorMark Hoffman
- Scott PattersonAgent Strahm
- Betsy RussellJill Tuck
- Lyriq BentRigg
- Athena KarkanisAgent Perez
- Louis FerreiraArt
- Simon ReynoldsLamanna
- Donnie WahlbergEric Matthews
- Angus MacfadyenJeff Denlon
Recommendations
- 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Director 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. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The trouble is that if you haven't seen the other entries in the cycle, or don't have all the characters committed to memory, you'll have trouble figuring out who anybody is or, in the end, what any of it is supposed to mean. - 50
Variety
Even 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. - 50
New York Daily News
If an hour and a half of so-called "torture porn" sounds like fun, you'll find Saw IV situated somewhere between the first in the cycle (a solid original with plenty of energy in it) and the last (a gasping copycat willing to do anything to stay alive). - 50
New York Post
Since the thing is increasingly impatient to jump forward to the next big torture set piece, there isn't any time to establish anyone's character. Butcher shops are bloody, too, but they're not scary. - 50
The New York Times
Saw IV is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry. - 42
The A.V. Club
Fans know exactly what they're in for, while everyone else knows to stay far away. Everyone can agree, however, that this is probably the worst date movie ever. For non-sadists, at least. - 38
ReelViews
It's a depressing experience to view something like Saw IV. It's not just the soullessness that's dispiriting, but the lack of invention. When a movie does little more than repeat what its predecessors accomplished with grotesque effectiveness, it's past time to tip this corpse into its grave and bury it.
