Metacritic Movie Ratings
Saw IV Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 50

  out of 100

  VarietyRobert Koehler

  Even by the standards of the recent "Saws," which have enjoyed considerably larger budgets than the first pic, the new edition is more frenetically cut (by editors Kevin Greutert and Brett Sullivan), more dimly lit (by lenser David A. Armstrong), sweatier in terms of perfs by the grimly serious cast, more madly packed with micro-incidents and action, and more brazen in requiring suspension of disbelief.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis

  Saw IV is bloody proof that Jigsaw may be dead, but his well of corporeal abuses has yet to run dry.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterFrank Scheck

  Director Darren Lynn Bousman, who also helmed the past two installments, doesn't deviate from the stylistic formula, which includes grinding industrial music, frenzied editing and a blue-gray color palette.

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• 33

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  He now imparts so many life lessons via his Rube Goldberg thresher devices that he's starting to turn into the Rod Serling of severed body parts. Now that's torture.

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