'Saw' Delivered More Than Gore
Lisa Vitella
Issue date: 11/15/07 Section: Entertainment
On October 26, 2007, the fourth movie of the Saw series opened in theaters, and is just as gruesome as the previous three.
Saw IV was No. 1 in the box office opening weekend, from Oct. 26 to the 28, taking in $32.1 million in the first three days released and played in 3,183 theaters. This was around the same amount as Saw III took in 2006, but it was still more than Saw II, and especially more than what Saw took in.
"I am not a murderer, I hate murderers," said Jigsaw at the end of the third movie. But, he also said that his work would never die. Now, if Jigsaw is not a murderer, what would he be classified as? A life-saver?
In order to understand the fourth movie, it is essential to see the third one before walking into the movie theater. We have learned that in the end of the third movie,
actor Tobin Bell, who plays murderer Jigsaw, also known as Jonathan Kramer, and his apprentice, Amanda, played by actress Shawnee Smith, are dead.
This time around, he is haunting the living while he is in his deadly state. The story unravels as the FBI team retrieves his body and find yet another tape. SWAT Commander Rigg has sat by while all of the people around him keep dying. After obsessing over Jigsaw and finding his coworker and friend, Eric Matthews, he is abducted and dragged into his own game. "Live or die. Make your choice," Jigsaw's voice says in the tapes prepared for Rigg. At the end, viewers learn who carries on Jigsaw's work; someone no one has even thought of suspecting. After the secret is revealed, Saw III becomes unraveled from where it was left off.
Kim Nguyen, a sophomore at Utica College, saw the movie and thought that it would explain what happened in the end of the third, and she was correct. "I do not think that it was as well done as the third one though," Nguyen said. "It was a little more ambiguous." She did not deny the fact that she was indeed scared and admitted to the fact that it was extremely gory.
Another sophomore at UC, Sharri Keveson said, "They need to make a fifth one to understand the fourth one now, because it didn't make much sense." She agrees that it was a good movie. "Although, I did expected more answers because it was hard to understand," she said. She also remembered that while watching the previews for the disgusting but exciting movie, that she was confused when she knew that Jigsaw died in the end of the third, but he was in the previews. There is always a reason for everything.
Saw IV was No. 1 in the box office opening weekend, from Oct. 26 to the 28, taking in $32.1 million in the first three days released and played in 3,183 theaters. This was around the same amount as Saw III took in 2006, but it was still more than Saw II, and especially more than what Saw took in.
"I am not a murderer, I hate murderers," said Jigsaw at the end of the third movie. But, he also said that his work would never die. Now, if Jigsaw is not a murderer, what would he be classified as? A life-saver?
In order to understand the fourth movie, it is essential to see the third one before walking into the movie theater. We have learned that in the end of the third movie,
actor Tobin Bell, who plays murderer Jigsaw, also known as Jonathan Kramer, and his apprentice, Amanda, played by actress Shawnee Smith, are dead.
This time around, he is haunting the living while he is in his deadly state. The story unravels as the FBI team retrieves his body and find yet another tape. SWAT Commander Rigg has sat by while all of the people around him keep dying. After obsessing over Jigsaw and finding his coworker and friend, Eric Matthews, he is abducted and dragged into his own game. "Live or die. Make your choice," Jigsaw's voice says in the tapes prepared for Rigg. At the end, viewers learn who carries on Jigsaw's work; someone no one has even thought of suspecting. After the secret is revealed, Saw III becomes unraveled from where it was left off.
Kim Nguyen, a sophomore at Utica College, saw the movie and thought that it would explain what happened in the end of the third, and she was correct. "I do not think that it was as well done as the third one though," Nguyen said. "It was a little more ambiguous." She did not deny the fact that she was indeed scared and admitted to the fact that it was extremely gory.
Another sophomore at UC, Sharri Keveson said, "They need to make a fifth one to understand the fourth one now, because it didn't make much sense." She agrees that it was a good movie. "Although, I did expected more answers because it was hard to understand," she said. She also remembered that while watching the previews for the disgusting but exciting movie, that she was confused when she knew that Jigsaw died in the end of the third, but he was in the previews. There is always a reason for everything.
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