Bloodbath and Beyond reviews the horror movie Saw IV directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and starring Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Costas Mandylor, and Lyriq Bent. The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. About Audience Score. "Saw IV" is not the average horror flick.
It's not a body-count movie--it's a riveting, mind-boggling psychological thriller in the sense. As fans no doubt recall from Saw III, his imminent death from cancer impelled him to torture a surgeon into providing him. Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) may be dead but the game isn't over in Saw IV, a slick sequel that gets the floundering series back on track. "Saw IV" is where the series started to go downhill, but, thankfully, not all at once.
Betsy Russell is a captive spectator in the third "Saw" sequel. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan and Thomas Fenton, the film's story revolves around Officer Daniel Rigg. Check out the exclusive TVGuide.com movie review and see our movie rating for Saw IV. Just because John Kramer (Tobin Bell), aka "Jigsaw," the fiendish serial-killing game-player of the previous three SAW movies, was nearly decapitated by a buzz saw at the end of SAW III doesn't necessarily. A ranking of the "Saw" movies from worst to best, on the occasion of "Jigsaw," the eighth entry in the franchise. But there are limits to entertaining brutality, and IV crosses them.
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MPA Rating: for sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language. "Saw IV" is by far the most devious, twisted "Saw" movie yet. To some fans of horror, the movie will likely meet expectations. Saw IV is about tying up loose ends—getting rid of (almost) all those surviving characters from parts I-III.
Since nearly everyone died in the last one, including the series' My review thus far has asked a lot of questions, I realize. When movies are as stupidly complex as this, questions are bound to arise. Having been killed at the end of the previous movie, his body is soon sent to the morgue for autopsy. However a tape is found within his stomach and a detective, Mark Hoffman, is called in to investigate.