Saw IV

Nathan Rabin

A commercially savvy though ultimately empty combination of warped morality tale, mystery, gore fest, and torture porn. ( Read More )

Advertisement With this perversely unforgiving sense of morality, Saw IV pushes the old slasher movie trope of disproportionately punishing victims for relatively minor transgressions to ridiculous extremes. ( Read More )

Owen Gleiberman

The reports of torture porns demise may have been greatly exaggerated, but this fourth entry in the mutilate yourself or die series joins what may be the worst genre of the decade: the lamely sympathetic serial killer backstory. ( Read More )

Nigel Floyd

The need to incorporate familiar characters and icons from the earlier films, together with flashbacks that flesh out Jigsaws pre puppet master past, simply leads to an irritating series of creative dead ends. Truly, a hack Saw. ( Read More )

Rob Gonsalves

Jigsaw is an interesting character with an interesting worldview and an interesting way of carrying out his will. Its too bad the movies themselves arent worthy of him. ( Read More )