Saw IV
Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman
2007
**
Saw IV sees a more in-depth analysis of the Jigsaw character, why he kills and why he kills who he does but its also a bit unnecessary in places and pushed the gore to the extreme. It's also unnecessarily complicated at this point to the point that you need to watch the previous films back to back to really understand what is going on. personally I hate it when films do that. The franchise is starting to wain somewhat which is a real shame, I think the one film a year work ethic is detrimental to the writing somewhat. The writing really does have to be something special from now on, given the fact that the film is left on quite a sizable cliff-hanger, indeed the franchise rests on whether it progresses with it's idea or rests with it's familiarity.