At least in previous entries, we could follow the conflict. Here, we’re lost in a garbled display of over-editing and flashy direction.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Sep 6, 2023

Saw IV marks the point at which the franchise began feeling like every other major horror movie IP, straining itself to chug along until the box office dries up.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 20, 2021

It was a bad movie overall, but it perfectly captured the zeitgeist of a terrible year through its awfulness. If the essence of 2007 is captured by any one film... it's "Saw IV.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2020

After three years of tricks, Halloween 2008's treat may very well be an end to this once promising series that should have died along with Jigsaw.

| Original Score: 1.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Saw IV has a nice twist ending - actually three twists in one - and might be the best of the sequels.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 10, 2020

If violence is going to be your calling card, you have to make a choice: big gore or horrific exploitation. You don't get to do both.

| Oct 27, 2017

Saw IV builds an over-elaborate game, and it's unable to escape its own game ultimately killing itself.

| Oct 4, 2017

The first thing you see in Saw IV is Jigsaw's balls. A sign of things to come? Most definitely.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

There's the obligatory twist at the end, which hardly makes up for the excruciating boredom viewers are forced to endure. But, hey, if you're paying for torture, expect to suffer.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 7, 2010

We now find ourselves in the downward slope of the Saw series as Saw IV stretches credibility to the breaking point.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 31, 2009

Jigsaw is an interesting character with an interesting worldview and an interesting way of carrying out his will. It's too bad the movies themselves aren't worthy of him.

| Original Score: F | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 18, 2008

This gruesomely efficient horror sequel shows noticeable wear and tear.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2008

I do wish that these movies were well made, because I actually think the premises are quite clever, but unless a veteran who is more confident in his abilities takes over, we are left with what could have been...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2008

Poor Jigsaw. The architect of the most deadly traps ever committed to celluloid has endured inoperable cancer, a debilitating car crash and even the premature death of his son, but nothing as painful or degrading as 'Saw IV.'

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 10, 2008

... any serious consideration of the killer's fascination with violence is superseded by the director's (and the returning viewers') own sadistic pleasures.

| Feb 27, 2008

Outro típico exemplar da série: o final, como de hábito, é até engenhoso, mas a fórmula cada vez mais desgastada exige paciência até que cheguemos a ele.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 8, 2008

Whereas the first Saw and the third met the right balance, the second film and now the fourth push things a little too far and end up being less effective as a result.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Dec 26, 2007

Were it not for the saving grace of Tobin Bell's mere presence, there's little doubt that Saw IV would come off about as well as a typical straight-to-video horror sequel.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2007