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Maybe it's just me but when they got to the end and I realized the entire thing was really a flashback, and that all of it was happening concurrently with Saw III, I just sat there stunned. And then I had to laugh because it is very rare that a movie catches me off guard.
I liked it. I liked it far better than Saw II (I think his apprentice was waaaay too emotional and whiny) and about on par with Saw III. What was even more interesting was that even as they're digging deeper in to Jigsaw's past they're leaving flashes of things that aren't really fully explained. And given that this story is now 4 movies deep and we're still getting the explanation for why things happened in the first movie, it now seems that they're setting the stage for a story that's at least two more movies deep. Having read that Saw V and VI are confirmed recently, that backs up the idea.
A complicated movie is different from an intricate movie. I really enjoyed the skill with which they wove the different stories of the various people together, and the clues they planted along the way. These movies will have some seriously high replay value for me because I'll be able to go back multiple times and piece together things that I saw but probably dismissed the first time. I also appreciate any movie where the director that makes the movie expecting his audience to be smart enough to catch all the clues and think through things. Too many movies hand you a two dimensional story these days or dumb it down for you. I never intended to become a big fan of the series but I fine I'm closing in on form fangrrl-dom with it.
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