See "Saw IV"
Jigsaw is dead...and back again? Saw IV on dvd recently hit the shelves and as a fan of the franchise I obediently trudged down to the nightmare of a big box store and laid my money down. The violence and gore content dazzled me, the selection of scumbag characters that die deservingly made me giddy, the plotline made me want to design some sort of rusty testicle crushing trap-like thingamajig for the writers of this flick. Apparently now that our man John is dead the powers that be have decided to take what was bloody and golden and thoroughly fuck it up. Things start off splendidly, with people waking up sweaty and confused, in disturbing locales attached to some really nasty hardware. Then, for no reason this critic can tell, the story goes balls deep into hollywood cliche land with a lame-ass tragic love story, way too many middle-aged white brunette cops who all look alike and an evil lawyer...gasp! Now that Jigsaw is dead who will continue his "work"? It won't be the kinda-hot Amanda anymore. Is the black cop guy? Is it the asshole ex-business partner lawyer guy? Is it one of the white lookalike cop guys? Is it the New Kids On The Block guy? Matters not, an hour in you don't care anymore. They have turned the plot into a mediocre soap opera and turned Jigsaw into a pussy and that shit ain't cool. I was hoping at any point in this movie that Jigsaw was gonna wake up at home and go "it was all some crazy, crap sequel dream" but this did not occur. Give me more pimps and molesters getting what they deserve and less of Jigsaw sitting in the corner of his shop holding a clown doll and crying like a bitch. C'mon "Saws" I thought we were friends.
This movie receives two "hastily gouged-out eyes" out of a possible five.