SAW IV
I am back, and better than ever. I apologize for the wait, and I hope this review is up to my audience’s standards. You’re all worth the effort. For this blog, I am reviewing Twisted Picture’s next piece SAW IV rated R for “sequences of grisly bloody violence and torture throughout, and for language”. Yet again, Yogi’s not there for his wonderful voice. Sorry, Old habits die hard. I personally question if this movie had been intended for mens-lovers since the rating obviously forgot to mention full-frontal nudity, such as Jigsaw John Kramer laid out on full display for all to see his nude body in the morgue. That’s right necrophiliacs this is a real juicy start for the film. I can just see Kramer’s dulling lips whisper, “Draw me like one of your French ladies”. Too, the main character of the movie named Tracy, goes on his own underwear adventures to go after a home invader. Clearly, the scene must not have been good enough for the home invader, since Tracy wakes up in a running shower with not change of articles. Never to worry, since after that rude awaking, Tracy eventually grabs himself some clothes. For those of you who still wanted more of that use of man to pander, never to worry Eric Mathews goes on ice. That’s right, the guy who we all would have been right to presume dead turns out to still be kicking and stuck on a giant ice cube to slip and slide around with his life in the balance. With the male displays, you can sit comfortably with the assurance that some things never change. For example, they continue to really get their money’s worth with that doll. A little spoiler alert here, the new guy stuck himself on his own trap, to give himself away by showing that he knew the victims involved. Though they did hold off that he had been sitting on dead voltage all along. If you had hopes that this is in chronological order, psst, you should know better by now. SAW doesn’t believe in chronological order.
I am happy to announce that the trap became for intriguing than ever. Though, unfortunately the legacy of Warrants-Are-For-Chumps continues to live on, as Tracy undergoes his personal writs of initiation. However, I feel that the background investigation during Tracy’s trials deserves special attention.
For each trial Tracy is faced with, he enters a round to set off a draw string to a tv, EVERY TIME. So much in fact, that it actually loses its sense of amusement only halfway into the film. Goody~. I personally preferred the entrance scene where a familiar face from SGU who I can only remember as Cornel Jung wakes muted by surgical wiring. He deals with serious communication complications when he finds that a man waking with surgical wiring over his eyes struggles to understand the tug-of-war situations. So, it’s more of a Baldy versus that SGU guy for a key to take off his collar. Tracy, upon his second trial, is faced with setting a chubby rapist onto a trap which demanded that he jab out his own eyes in order to live. I feel that the real torture was in how the guy also had to watch himself raping someone on tape as he goes through it. Shit! Did I forget that this is a preset for an origins chapter of the saga. In one segment, John confronts a druggy who was responsible for the death of his unborn son. More of that later. The trap however was interest seeing how the druggy had to push himself through a set of knifes in order to free his wrist from a chair. I honestly don’t think Kramer cared all that much about redemption then.
Now back to the new Mr. Warrants-Are-For-Chumps, Tracy, who couldn’t help himself but to charge into a crime scene where Carrie hung on full dispose. My apologies though, it appears that EVERYTHING has been ripped off, not only her clothes. Still might not ruin it for some necrophiliacs though. Anyways, you all might be wondering what exactly Tracy hoped to do once he charged into the unclear room. Nothing. Absolutely nothing, unless you count throwing your hands up in the air in total defeat, but other than that, he really didn’t have anything planned. As one might image, work for Tracy is rather stressful since “everyone around him keeps dying”, and that’s quoted from the movie itself. This happens to be what decided Tracy’s leave of absence. Which, the choice should have been made sooner, since Tracy spent that time obsessing to the point that he neglected his wife.
Now that I got Tracy’s introduction out of the way, Welcome to the Pigmen Masquerade starting with a victim sitting in a chair with the same Pigman mask seen throughout the series planted on her face. This first trial set Tracy to decide to save her while her trial had been completely different. “Are you a cop?” Hmm. Why might she ask that? It might have something to do with the incriminating evidence lying around you, while you struggled with a slow insertion of combinations in order to save her butt. How is this guy an officer? I understood how the first guy was, since despite his sudden downfall, the first Mr. Warrants-Are-For-Chumps could prove his stellar detective skills. Tracy on other hand, cannot so much as take the time to look around him to understand more might be at play. Is everyone dying around him just that edge that he got pushed over? I hope his detective work had not always been that sloppy. More importantly, why did it matter so freaking much to the woman on the chair that she would willingly sacrifice her own life. Jigsaw even told her where the knife was which would have helped with Tracy simply wanting to cut the pony tail caught in the rotating gear off to begin with. Maybe I’m looking at this from the wrong angle, and she actually cared more about her hair than her own life. Hell, Evy from V for Vendeta cared more about her hair being cut off than being tortured. With that aside we’re back at the Chubby rapist being the second guy. In procuring him for the Trial, Tracy is told that he much hide his identity with the pigman mask, while not changing anything else. Seriously, if the cameras already saw him inter the room, it’s not going to be hard for any detective to stick two and two together to uncover that “oh, hey, isn’t that Pigman guy awfully similar to the guy who just entered that room a few seconds ago. After the fact, Tracy is told “can’t help them, they have to help themselves” once he followed the bread crumbs to a School where a woman much choose her own life over another. Seriously mixed signals, man. You want people to save one another, but make a tribute sacrifice for their own life? Shoving that aside, Tracy is giving a Go Home card, and do not pass Go to collect 200 dollars. I had to add that joke. Where is home? Well, it looks a lot like that place from SAW I, SAW II, and SAW III. Where else, the old workshop area where you would think more people would be swarming since they know who’s behind it. Seriously, Jigsaw laid out the welcome mat and everything. Oh, fair warning, it turns out that the entirety of the film actually takes place during SAW III with Burger Joe, and not at all after the entrance scene with Jigsaw John Kramer’s recorder is recovered.
Ah, now for me to cover the background investigation which mostly focuses a journal to gloomy flashback lands with John’s divorced wife. She proceeds to give the detective a lengthy story starting with how a druggy at her hospital pulls out a knife to have John talk him down. Wait, is she actually telling the story? How would she know about all the parts that she wasn’t even there for? Does John care just about everything about his day with her? Seriously, I wish I could get away speaking as quietly as John does without people telling me to stop mumbling. For the things that she can give details about without having to seriously question, John Kramer had a thing for antiques, and wanted for the child he managed to impregnate his wife with to be born on the year of the pig. He made sure to plan it out that way. However, his plans become thoroughly wrecked when the same druggy from the hospital turns a asking for a jacket into a hospital drugs robbery. In the process, the druggy’s brute force caused John’s wife to have a miscarriage. Then we get back into the parts that she couldn’t have possibly been there in order to relay. John went on a pit of revenge to chloroform the druggy with a handy dirty rag and under the cover of a chibi faced pig mask which I guess inspired the pig masks later on… HOW? I mean I can see where the pig mask part went into play, but how did that chibi cutsy looking pig suddenly turn into Japanese Yokai pig mask. Now, I can get onto how Straum, the FBI detective who has been interrogating her, is a real asshole. I still don’t see the point in the endless table slamming clip in the film, or the slamming of pictures in his own partner’s face. The shit! She sees them, and she’s great at her job. YOU do not need to keep shoving the rape picture in her face to ask her how she feels about it. It’s pretty damn obvious that the scenery of the second trial would make anyone uncomfortable. I also don’t see how Straum expected the get where Jigsaw is by slamming the table in front of his wife like that. I continue to question Tracy’s intelligence as he even acknowledges that the investigation is actively following him closely to the point that he pulls a fire alarm to alert them. At that scene the doll has been waiting for them with candles. I guess he had been hoping for a romantic night with agent Perez the female FBI and Straum’s partner on the investigation.
This film isn’t stink tank worthy, but it’s laughably bad. There’s some valiant effort to turn the Saga around, and that’s noteworthy. However, I still suspect this was just a fan flic to pander male characters or perhaps just necrophilia however the case might be. With that out of the way. This is NekoTheLazyGamer, and regardless of my little incident with Sputnik, I am happy to announce that I will still actively produce YouTube video. Sputnik is fully operational. For those unfamiliar with that name, Sputnik is the name I gave my long living computer. I will also soon be doing another cross-over video with Moticolev K for his channel and I say look forward to that. I will post it on my wordpress, but it will be ultimately his video. I say post, but I actually mean embed so that your views will count as views on the video itself. I hope to give more detail on that later. Thank you, all.
with another comedy called Idiocracy, this of which is a satire. 20th century Fox always know how to make me laugh by distributing content that obviously goes against their news broadcasting politically. Don’t get me wrong,
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