I Know What You Did Last Summer

The first 2 minutes are as good as it gets - the inner monologue of a 25 point IQ who chose UofMich - enough said - she should be offed just for that. Terrible lighting, terrible acting, script sucks - you were hoping they all died - but it took 31 minutes for the first dead body. You couldn't tell any of the characters apart and the location/set up was so ridiculous. Seriously - THIS is your idea of a reboot of a great movie?

It started out so promising, I actually liked the characters and so fun to see characters from the previous movies. But god can't imagine any real fans being happy with this movie? Very obvious who the killer is which is fine. That how it usually is. But the ending, common? Shockingly bad! So unnecessary and stupid, made no sense and they spent no time explaining why?

Honestly the movie was okay until the last part of the movie, I would have wanted longer death scenes, with more chase, more drama and excitement but it kinda felt rushed unlike in the other movies. This could have been such a good movie, just disappointed.

The film opens with upbeat, trendy music that instantly sets a Scream VI vibe-never a good sign if you're hoping for originality. From the start, it's clear this isn't going to break new ground. We follow a group of American "teens": conventionally attractive girls paired with alpha-male archetypes, with Jonah Hauer-King oddly miscast and feeling out of place.

The premise hasn't evolved since the 1997 original: a group of friends covers up a death, only to be stalked one year later by the iconic fisherman in his rain slicker. He picks them off one by one, sometimes extending his vengeance to their loved ones. That's it. There's little substance beyond this familiar formula. Legacy characters from the original film return, but rather than adding emotional depth or clever twists, their presence feels like a shallow callback. Freddie Prinze Jr., in particular, gives a performance that weirdly channels Dermot Mulroney from Scream VI; not exactly flattering.

Several sequences simply don't make sense. In one, Teddy tries to fix the sliding doors on his boat, even though we can clearly see someone lurking at the end of the corridor. His behavior makes it seem as if he's conspiring with the killer rather than in danger. When he eventually fights the fisherman, the scene plays more like roughhousing with a buddy than a desperate struggle for survival. Later, Teddy's father mourns his son while heavy footsteps of the killer are blatantly audible in the background. Yet the father never reacts. It's sloppy staging, and moments like these kill any suspense.

Acting quality is inconsistent at best. Characters flip from panic to casual nonchalance within minutes, destroying any sense of tension. For a slasher from 1997, some of these choices might have slid by unnoticed, but for a 2025 release they feel outdated and careless.

Ultimately, this revival offers nothing fresh: no new angle, no genuine scares, and no compelling performances. It's a reheated version of a story that was already thin, relying on nostalgia rather than creativity.

This movie felt very reminiscent to the first I know what you did last summer, except a little bit worse in the overall picture. The movie does have its good moments where its really good, but it also have moments that made me scratch my head. The movie clings very heavily to the formula of the first movie which sometimes makes it feel more like a copy of the original movie rather than a sequel.

Starting with the good stuff I gotta say that the tension is very much there. The movie keeps you on toes and the kills are well done. The cast also delivers solid performances and it was nice to see the original characters return for this one. The movie does a good job at not getting boring or slow down too much which makes the movie have a nice pace.

As for the bad, the movie has the same problem as the first one had with who the killer was. I found the reveal in the first movie unsatisfying and a little lazy, but the reveal in this one literally makes no logical sense to me. The movie doesn't spend any time into the why the killer does what they do. It establishes no real reason to what linked the killer to the why. The characters in the movie are also ridiculously stupid in the movie to the point where their actions or reasons why they split up makes absolutely no sense. I'm fine with a character being written as stupid, this was characters written as being in defense mode doing absolutely everything not to be in a safe place. With that the movie also doesn't feel like its own movie as it constantly follows the tracks of the first movie, to the point where the movie almost holds the audience's hand just to say, "Oh do you recognize this from the old movie?"

Overall, I did have a good time watching the movie, but I also recognize that the movie doesn't try to do anything to make it stand on its own merit.

Let's talk about the guys first: they're not actors, they're perfume ad extras. You could swap them out like Pokémon cards and no one would notice. The girls? Even better. Half of them are on the "unlimited plastic surgery" plan, the other half have the charisma of a TikTok tutorial. To look modern, the script throws in a couple of pseudo-feminist lines-"see, we're progressive!" Result: a plastic cast that makes The Sims look like Italian neorealism.

Back in '97, at least you got a few chills. Here, the tension level is like watching Scooby-Doo without the dog. The Jennifer Love Hewitt/Freddie Prinze Jr-style twist? You see it coming like a train two miles away: it honks, it flashes, and everyone pretends to be shocked. And of course, the old trick of the camera lingering too long on a suspect so you know it's not him-thanks, but we've seen that a thousand times, even in Inspector Derrick.

It's 2025, and somehow these people film murders with less imagination than an eight-year-old with a PlayStation 2. No inventive gore, no striking set-pieces, nothing. It looks like a buggy Dead by Daylight DLC coded by an intern on sedatives. No sweat, no chills. In a slasher you're supposed to clench your ass-here, you're checking your phone between scenes.

A horror movie without a memorable score is like Star Wars without John Williams: it doesn't work. Here? Radio silence. No musical build-ups, no theme that sticks. It feels like they shot the film with the speakers unplugged. So when the killer finally shows up, you don't care-it's filmed like a wildlife documentary on PBS.

Everything reeks of leftovers: the dumb group of teens, the crappy pact, the mysterious killer's return... We've seen it all before, and way better, thirty years ago. And just to rub salt in the wound, they bring back the survivors from '97 to play consultants. It's not a movie, it's a "nostalgia special" episode of Legends of the Hidden Temple. And honestly, at least in Legends, you got a little adrenaline when the temple guards showed up.

This 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer is proof that Hollywood now has the creativity of flan. No scares, no tension, no desire-just a cynical product already built to spawn another useless sequel. We wanted to shiver, but in the end, the only scary thing is realizing they're still funding this crap. Bottom line: just rewatch the '97 one-at least back then, when you asked "who's the killer?", you weren't bored stiff waiting for the answer.