It’s badly paced, there’s not really any major “twist” to speak of (ironic considering the movie’s tagline was “You won’t believe how it ends”), and the events and ramifications of the plot are relatively contained to the movie itself. I warmed up a bit on Saw V after rewatching it, but not by much. The fact that he’s punished for this, the under-utilization of Donnie Wahlberg, and the backstories of some of the other victims, makes Saw IV overall just unpleasant. Sure, the guy might be obsessed with Jigsaw, but he also takes his job seriously and will selflessly dive headfirst into situations to save whoever he can. The game, though: it essentially boils down to punishing a SWAT leader for wanting to save everyone. It is nasty and one hell of an opener to a movie that never rises back to that level of intensity.
#SPIRAL BOOK OF SAW TWIST SERIAL#
One thing I had forgotten is the opening autopsy of Jigsaw himself, rendered in excruciatingly painstaking, gory detail as the dead serial killer is carved open. I’ll be honest: Saw IV is almost so forgettable, I watched the whole thing without taking notes and the only thing I remembered vividly off-hand was Donnie Wahlberg getting his noggin crushed between two blocks of ice. However, ask me again in a month and I will experience a sudden and significant anxiety spike and probably a new ranking. So it is with much pain and indecision that I state that Saw IV is the worst Saw.
I get so wrapped up in what the real right ranking is, and making sure I don’t contradict myself. But if there’s one thing I hate, it’s lists. I love them so much! I love organizing things, ranking them, and working through why. This is also the first time I’m revisiting these movies since their theatrical releases, so this ranking will be wrought from a combination of nostalgia, hindsight, and age. No other website in the world is ranking the Saw movies to celebrate Spiral, so I’m pretty excited about this. Freshly vaccinated and prepared to give Chris Rock and Lionsgate that AMC IMAX money, I decided to revisit every Saw film chronologically to prepare for Spiral, and rank them, to include Spiral once I’d watched it. We see Saw because it’s Saw: creatively gruesome violence, generally campy acting, and discovering how the writers will bullsh*t their newest twist into the overall canon. The Saw franchise is one which kind of compels one to keep consuming each subsequent entry, wherever the reasoning falls between “I want to see what happens because I’m invested in the plot” all the way over to “I want to see what happens because why the hell not.” Look: nobody goes to see a Saw movie to fill in their Best of the Year list.
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