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Saw IV (Unrated Full Screen Edition) |  | Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Actors: Tobin Bell, Scott Patterson, Justin Louis, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  112 reviews
Sales Rank: 4925
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 22216
UPC: 031398222163
EAN: 0031398222163
ASIN: B001053042
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: January 22, 2008
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| • | When SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game, the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: NR MA Age: 031398222163 UPC: 031398222163 Manufacturer No: 22216 |
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Even death itself can't bring the savage games of Jigsaw to an end, as Saw IV proves; if anything, the fiendishly clever serial killer (once again played by Tobin Bell) is equally capable of dealing out violent death while lying on a morgue slab as he was in life. Saw IV also offers a class reunion of characters from the previous three films, each once again up to their necks in Jigsaw's schemes. Chief among them is Sgt. Rigg (Lyriq Bent) from Saw II, who must place himself in Jigsaw's shoes in order to rescue Detective Matthews (Donnie Walhberg), who was abducted by the killer at the end of Saw II, and Forensic Hoffman (Costas Mandylor from Saw III), from another elaborate murder device. Meanwhile, FBI agents led by Scott Patterson (Gilmore Girls, Aliens in America) attempt to track Rigg as he carries out Jigsaw's horrific notion of justice from beyond the grave. Casual horror fans may find the endless puzzles and relentless nihilism of the Saw series wearing thin with this fourth entry, but the franchise's key selling points--the Sadean excesses of Jigsaw's macabre creations--remain as bloody and unsettling as ever. --Paul Gaita
Product Description
When SWAT Commander Rigg is abducted and thrust into a game the last officer untouched by Jigsaw has but ninety minutes to overcome a series of demented traps and save an old friend or face the deadly consequences.System Requirements:Running Time: 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR/TORTURE Rating: UNRATED UPC: 031398222163 Manufacturer No: 22216
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 this movie is good November 25, 2009
Victor Garcia
This movie is great. Almost all saw movies are good. The twist in this one is one of the best in any movie.
 It's A Trap. October 20, 2009
Sebastian Sanjurjo (Miami FL)
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 An exercise in wheel-spinning August 18, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:
A completely unnecessary film (Saw III wrapped things up pretty nicely, but the franchise is a cash cow so more keep coming) which is unbelievably transparent in its pathetic attempt to craft a continuing story out of the few loose ends that were leftover from the last installment, Saw IV could be described far better as "desperate" than "scary": the only reason to see this one is if you want to say you've seen every Saw.
1.5/4
Just keeps getting better and better!!! August 12, 2009
Johnny Palliser (So Cal.)
All I can really say about Saw 4, it that the series just gets better and better with each new film. The film is bloody as usual, and we continue to learn new things about John "Jigsaw" Kramer with each film, and we end up being more sympathatic with the character... The film has a good pace, and keeps you guessing as usual and still continues to play with your mind. There are times, that even I get a little confused of what is going on and who is involved and why... I like this series and can't wait to see 5 and 6, even 7 when it is finally released... Oh, yes! There will be a Saw 7...
I recommend this film, but beware... there is a lot of blood and gore, especially with the unrated director's cut which i have... You have been warned!
Confusing, illogical mish-mash August 7, 2009
Brian A. Schar (Menlo Park, CA United States)
Let me preface this review by saying that I love horror movies. A good horror movie is good on its own terms; a bad one has potential to be good as a bad movie. Saw IV fails to live up to its potential either way. I didn't love Saw III a lot, but it was a decent 2.5-3 star movie, and the cliffhanger ending got me interested in renting Saw IV. I wish I hadn't.
We begin with a seriously fake autopsy. I've never actually performed one, so maybe it's super-realistic. But when you see the big pieces of latex (I mean, skin) peeled off of Jigsaw, you might actually start laughing like I did. That's not an auspicious beginning. And thus begins Saw IV. The flashbacks and heavy-handed exposition start coming fast and furious, rendering Saw IV more an exercise in figuring out the overly-complex editing than an exercise in straightforward horror. We the viewers get to see mild-mannered Jigsaw when he was just a regular old architect or civil engineer or something. He was more interesting as an enigmatic and all-knowing killing machine.
On top of the confusing editing, Saw IV fails to hew to its own internal logic. One of the key features of a genre film, particularly in SF, horror or fantasy, is to set up simple internal logic and hew to it diligently. Otherwise, it's very easy to shatter the suspension of disbelief. One of the key rules of Saw is that Jigsaw lets his victims "make a choice" - each gets to live or die based on that choice, and he lets them go if they live. Indeed, Jigsaw found Shawnee Smith to be an unsuitable pupil due to her failure to follow the rules. But the big set-piece trap in Saw IV completely ignores the rules, given that at least one of the participants was going to live or die completely due to the actions of someone else. Please, Saw franchise, if you're going to set up your main character to have a specific character-defining rule, make him follow it.
For spoiler-related reasons I won't go into here, the cliffhanger from Saw III isn't merely not resolved - it isn't even mentioned in this movie! That knocked a star off right there.
If you watched Saw III, you will rent Saw IV. You may, however, call it quits at Saw IV and purposely avoid the remaining films. I, for one, do not intend to rent Saw XIV to see which 20-year-old footage they're cutting up to make more flashbacks for the 2025 release. At best, this is worth a rent.
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