Movie - Saw IV (2007)

So Jigsaw is now dead but his games are far from being over. Apparently I saw this movie in theaters when it first came out (I still have the movie stub), but I don't really remember seeing any of it so obviously a re-watch was in order. The movie follows one of the detectives (Riggs) and his obsessive pursuit to find the detective who was locked in the bathroom in the second movie. We were kind of wondering what happened to him, weren't we? Due to his obsession with trying to save everyone, he is immediately a target for one of Jigsaw's puzzles. Riggs wakes up in his own apartment, but it has been turned into a Jigsaw puzzle. His first test is a prostitute who is in a contraption that will slowly rip her scalp off of her head by pulling her hair. Riggs has to leave her and pursue his real mission but cannot due to his obsession with saving everyone. He saves the girl just in time, but she has her own puzzle to solve and tries to kill him, but ultimately loses her own life. The next test takes him to a motel where he must choose to leave a rapist be or have him strap himself into a machine and stab his own eyes out. He chooses to have him strap himself in and the man loses his life as chains rip him to pieces at the last minute. The next test brings him to a school where he sees a wife and husband impaled together held up on a divider. The wife has murdered the husband by removing all but one of the metal rods. Riggs helps her remove the rod and helps her down. While being interrogated by police officials, Jill (Jigsaw's ex wife) explains to them why she feels he became the way that he did. It is uncovered that she was pregnant and that a junky held her at gunpoint at her clinic and slammed a door into her stomach causing her to miscarry. Enraged by what happened, Jigsaw was never the same. Later it is shown that that man was Jigsaw's first guinea pig. Riggs finally gets to his detective friend, but it is too late. When he opens the door, he is shot by his friend (Matthews) just as ice blocks fall down and shatter Matthews' head, killing him instantly. As Riggs is dying, his fellow detective Hoffman reveals himself to be Jigsaw's apprentice. Just as Strahm (another detective) is about to walk through to the scene, Hoffman locks him in a room full of the corpses from the third movie and he is trapped. This movie was okay. I was a little confused as they kept hopping from the past to the present to the future and it was kind of confusing when everything was happening. There really weren't that many traps or gore in this one so I was a little disappointed. This movie did answer some questions about where people were and who was going to take over now that both Amanda and Jigsaw were dead, but it was really just disappointing compared to the other three. I'm going to give this one a three.