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Saw IV (2007) Lions Gate Films 1 hr. 48 mins. Starring: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Betsy Russell, Scott Patterson, Donnie Wahlberg, Athena Karkanis, Lyriq Bent, Shawnee Smith, Angus Macfadyen Directed by: Darren Lynn Bouseman This film is rated: R Saw IV Rating:  
E-MAIL FRANK OCHIENG Well folks, welcome to the fourth Halloween celebration since the frothy and fiendish Saw movie franchise was born in 2003...or shall we say horrifically hatched. Yes, it’s the fourth indigestible installment involving that misunderstood menace of mayhem—the twisted titan of terror in the unpredictable and grotesque Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). As with the protruding predecessors, things have not really changed a bit in this aimless orgy-filled spectacle of nonsensical gore and guts. Sure, maybe the gross-out factor is heightened a bit to liven its blatant shock value. Regardless, the disdain and drudgery as featured in the repetitively reckless Saw IV is about as appetizing as licking a rusty buzzsaw blade. Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles. Filmmaker Darren Lynn Bouseman is back at the bombastic buttons while pushing this synthetically seedy sideshow to its convoluted limit. At least the first couple of outings for Jigsaw and his hedonistic headgames were mildly inspired in crazed curiosity. Unfortunately, this sinister serving of Saw IV feels outrageously ragged as it has that deadening feel to the perverse proceedings. Bouseman and screenwriters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan dutifully tack on all the cliched degrading destruction that flaps feverishly but never registers with challenging cynicism. The results are pretty rudimentary in the over-indulgent empty-headed ruckus—Jigsaw strikes back with more cartoonish chaos designed to routinely churn the sensitive stomach. Never mind the laughable lunacy to Saw IV’s fragrant foolishness but the fact that Bouseman’s flaccid frightfest defies all logical loopholes in its storied mindlessness. Where moviegoers left off from last year’s Saw III, weakened serial killer Jigsaw (along with slimy sidekick Amanda as played by Shawnee Smith) looks as if they were on their final journey into causing random madness. Naturally, Jigsaw fanatics (and the opportunistic movers-and-shakers at Lions Gate Films) couldn’t resist the ludicrous notion of resurrecting their monstrous moneymaking misfit in an eager attempt to profit on more boisterous, idiotic insanity. Hence, the harried heat is on for the ailing Jigsaw and his curvy cupcake Amanda to make their notoriously rowdy presence known. The insidious but vulnerable Jigsaw is at the hands of a curious mortician. Technically, our carving-loving cretin is still haunting his victims from the grave courtesy of several tedious flashbacks and reminiscent unsettling scenes that recall Jiggy’s X-rated naughtiness on his bewildered prey. Anyway some recorded evidence found on Jigsaw’s chopped-up body could lead authorities to further investigate the continuation of the slaughtering soul’s warped activities. In order to free these poor individuals from the departed Jigsaw’s infamous life-and-death contraptions, the good guys must pay a price and figure out how to rescue the potential guinea pigs at harm’s demented doorway. Specifically, the law-abiding luminaries involved include a roguish cop named Riggs (Eriq Bent) looking to save his old partner Eric Mathews (Donnie Wahlberg) from the treacherous tricky traps. Mathews is being used as human bait to lure Riggs and confuse him even more. Riggs desperately wants to hunt down Jigsaw’s fatalistic accomplices but they may in return give him something to really worry about other than saving the hides of the imperiled. Also on board to reveal Jigsaw’s aftermath of turmoil are a determined detective (Costas Mandylor) and a couple of FBI agents (Scott Patterson and Athena Karkanis). Together this band of combatants is to stick together in order to submerged the loony legacy of the psychotic Jigsaw. Can the off-kilter Jigsaw playfully wound his clueless targets from beyond and develop a morbid mystique beyond compare? Will the remaining participants in Jigsaw’s caustic concoctions overcome the pending jeopardy that precariously exists? Convincingly, Saw IV has nothing to offer that hasn’t been revisited in previous raucous entries spouting the same old tiresome terrorizing tactics. Woefully boorish and devoid of any percolating suspense to propel the posthumous pathetic pest Jigsaw to cult status like his corrosive creature/feature contemporaries, this particular Saw is a dull tantalizing tool that just doesn’t cut it. Distracting jittery camera angles, overreaching cheap-minded scary bits, anemic acting, dippy dialogue, staggeringly dreary set pieces, mismatched coloring schemes—all are the run-of-the-mill shaky showcase of a seriously sluggish horror hokum that’s relentlessly hyper in its hollow hysteria. Much like loose luggage, there will seemingly be multiple samples of trivial truculence to be found in the growing genre of baseless boofests that exemplify forgettable fare such as the preposterously pointless peepshow that is the tortuous Saw IV. Click here to comment on this review or post your own thoughts. Frank Ochieng © TheWorldJournal.com |
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