Saw IV plot is a bloody mess |
Being a horror movie fan and especially since it’s Halloween I’d just love to encourage readers to get out to the theater this witching time of year and see Saw IV in the theater, but can’t.
The movie [Saw IV official website] has raked in over $30 million already and is #1 in the theaters as I write this. My wife and I went last night.
Saw IV opens with a gruesome autopsy scene and devolves from there. I’m still trying to figure out what happened in the end. Jigsaw puzzle? Indeed.
After seeing Saw III I wondered how they could contract Jigsaw for five movies when his head was almost chopped off at the end of his cancer ravaged body. Jigsaw can only live on in backstory logically — and guess what, that’s what we get in Saw IV. Jigsaw’s ex-wife seems only to be in the story to relate the backstory of what drove Jigsaw into being the brilliant, mad scientist of traps and gadgetry.
By the time the end credits rolled I was even more confused about who was the bad guy? An essential component of horror is understanding who the bad guy is so you can sense FEAR. I sensed more repulsion than fear with Saw IV. More shock about the visuals and what I was seeing than being legitimately fearful. Lionsgate needs to go back to the sawhorse for Saw V because IV lost its edge. The only thing keeping this horrible horror flick from total failure is the inventive, yet sadistic traps. Grade: D+
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T, it really doesn’t work if you don’t understand the ending, so I understand your dissapointment. I recommend reading Wikipedia, which has a detailed synopsis.
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Basically, Saw 3 and Saw 4 take place at the exact same time on the exact same day. While Jeff is running through a series of tests, Riggs and the FBI agents are being led through a different series. When Riggs enters the room at the end, failing his test, Jeff is in another area of the building, killing Amanda and Jigsaw. Hoffman has been Jigsaw’s apprentice for at least two films, probably more, and he pushed Amanda over the edge so she would fail her test and be killed, while pushing Riggs and the FBI agents so they would die and leave him free. After Riggs failed, Hoffman released himself from the chair, sealed in the male FBI agent and left the building. Several days later, Jigsaw’s autopsy occurs (the first scene in the film is actually days after the rest of the film occurs), and Jigsaw’s final tape tells Hoffman that he is the new chosen successor, and that Jigsaw wants Hoffman to carry on his legacy.
Comment by Nathan Weinberg — October 30, 2007 @ 2:07 pm PST
I turned your text silver, Nathan, just to make the spoiler a little less obvious. Thanks for the explanation, that does make more sense now. Too bad they will miss a segment of the audience like me being more fearful because we are confused instead. Horror can and should be psychological, but there is always a danger of making the plot too involved.
Comment by TDavid — October 30, 2007 @ 3:17 pm PST
hi
i just read this cuz i saw saw like 2 mins ago and was like WHAT THE HELL????
Its kinda messy and badly told, since u get the lightning colors (u know the greens and blues) that supposedly tell u what goes on, so I was like OK I GET IT SO FAR
but the problem I had was, like said before, knowing whos the bad one…
since both last characters look so alike, with all the blood i was like “whos inside n whos outside”… and it made me a little off the track to see the same thing at the end being the beginning, since how could he get captured in an electric chair since he got there by going and following info that led him there but then he closes the door with JS in it BEFORE the first scene… messed me up like the brain surgery
I was like wondering if JS had time ripping abilities or somthin lol…
thx for the explanaiton, im not dumb at all on those but i think it didnt detail the explanaition that good
cya
Comment by ok — January 21, 2008 @ 4:55 pm PST
Does shouting more solves crimes more quickly? FBI agents follows this theory in this movie. The set-ups are not up to the mark of a bloodshed horror. My rating for this movie is: Horror fans could watch it once.
Comment by Simon — October 16, 2009 @ 6:09 am PST