Eye Candy #356 - "Saw IV"

Saw IV:  And installment 4 of the hardly venerable "Saw" series arrives with a palpable thud as ideas already trotted out in "Saws 1-3" are rehashed here again. You remember that girl who was Jigsaw's "apprentice"? Oh wait, now he's got a NEWER one. Granted, it's a better "Saw" movie than "Saw 2", but it's a lesser film compared to "Saw" and "Saw 3". The death traps are here again, but since they're all rigged by Jigsaw's new apprentice, they lack his flair for engineering, so they're required to be more human-based traps. Donnie Wahlberg is back, as is Costas Mandylor (playing a part that is largely undefined through either "Saw 3" or "4"). And we have flashbacks galore, which means either the film (intentionally or unintentionally) is incapable of standing on its own. Only good thing - we finally get more of Jigsaw's back story and what originally put him on the path he followed. Woodchuck sez, "Almost the worst of the bunch."