Review of Saw IV (2007) by Bsh N — 22 Mar 2011

I have to admit that I am a fan of the Saw movie franchise. Not because it is a "human torture" film as some may label them, but because they are movies that is designed to make you think and in essence play the game along with the characters. Saw 4 did not disappoint at all.

The movie starts with the autopsy of John Kramer a.k.a "Jigsaw". Jigsaw died at the end of Saw 3 and the coroner was taking out his organs and weighing them. When he decided to cut open Jigsaw's stomach, he came across a tape that was covered in wax to protect it from stomach acid erosion. Investigators play the tape and Jigsaw vows that the game will go on.

Allison Kerry, the lead female investigator from Saw 2 was found hooked up to one of the contraptions. The device was designed that she couldn't live even if she "passed" the test. So naturally the police thought that it was a trap set up by Amanda. That followed her pattern from Saw 3. However, they concluded that she couldn't have done it herself and would've needed help. Since Jigsaw was a deathly ill cancer patient, it was very unlikely that it was him. So Saw 4 was to find who the accomplice was.

The game centered around Officer Rigg, one of Detective Eric Matthews friends on the force. A video showed him that Eric Matthews was still alive and he was being held with another investigator in a room, and the traps was set with those two linked together so if one died, they both died. The game made it look like Jigsaw was "training" Rigg to carry on his work. With clues like "See as I see" and "Feel what I feel". Attached to each person in peril was flashbacks of what happened that made Jigsaw see and feel, as it pertains to his work.

I don't want to blow the ending in case you haven't seen it yet, but it has another one of those famous Saw twist endings. The movie did such an excellent job of pulling the audience into it and at one point or another suspecting just about everyone involved as being the accomplice. The accomplice was just about the last person that I suspected in the movie's climax scene.