SAW IV (SCOTT PATTERSON, TOBIN BELL;2007)

I DON'T WANT TO RUIN THE MOVIE FOR YOU, BUT... IT'S A TRAP! JIGSAW, THE CANCER PATIENT WHO APPARENTLY DOESN'T NEED PROPER MEDICAL CARE, AND WHO WAS MORE DIFFICULT TO KILL THAN SADDAM HUSSEIN, IS FINALLY DEAD. SO IS HIS APPRENTICE AMANDA. YET, MIRACULOUSLY, THE ABSOLUTE, FUCKING STUPIDEST AUTHORITIES ON THE PLANET MANAGE TO CONTINUE PLAYING HIS GAMES VIA AN AUDIO TAPE DISCOVERED IN JIGSAW'S STOMACH. THE TAPE WAS DISCOVERED DURING HIS AUTOPSY. AFTER THE LAST REMAINING S.W.A.T. AGENT IS ABDUCTED, THE FBI ONLY HAS A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME TO PIECE TOGETHER JIGSAW'S LATEST PUZZLE BEFORE THEY FACE THE BLOODY CONSEQUENCES. THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION FOR SAW IV'S CRACKPOT TEAM OF INVESTIGATORS, IS TO CONTINUE FALLING INTO EVERY SINGLE TRAP INSTEAD OF CUTTING THEIR LOSSES AND MOVING ON TO ANOTHER CASE. THEY MIGHT AS WELL HAVE MADE THE FIRST SAW EIGHT HOURS LONG. THE SEQUELS JUST DON'T CHANGE THAT MUCH. BY THE FOURTH SAW THE JIGSTER'S KILLED 8-10 COPS, 2 DOCTORS, RANDOM PEDESTRIANS AND I THINK SOME POOR KID'S TURTLE WAS DUCT-TAPED TO A FRYING PAN. NOT TO MENTION, JIGUMS HAS BEEN IMMOBILE SINCE THE FIRST FILM. HOW HE CONTINUALLY FOILS THE F.B.I. IS BEYOND ME. HOWEVER, IF YOU LIKED THE THIRD SAW YOU'LL LIKE THIS ONE. IF YOU STOPPED WATCHING THIS FRANCHISE AFTER THE FIRST SEQUEL, DON'T BOTHER RENTING THIS. - T.M.J.