I Know What You Did Last Summer

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.

It's nice to see a sequel years later of one of my favorite movies ever, but is it really necessary?

It tries so hard to mimick everything from the original that it gets old REALLY quick.

Unlike sequels to other older movies like Star Wars, Halloween or even Hocus Pocus that the new characters are so boring that you just don't care what happens to them, the new ones are OK. Not good, just ok. Except Danica, she's horrible. And I liked that they weren't just copies of the original cast, they FEEL like a new group.

The killer reveal was dumb and the last scene is just another "yeah girl power" moment that no one asked for.

Honestly, I like going out yesterday to watch it, but I won't be seeing this one again. The original I've seen about 20 times and it never gets old.

Run. Run far away. Run far away and never return. You know, you really begin to understand and appreciate what a great writer Kevin Williamson is when all these new directors and writers try to continue his stories and fall flat on their face. This movie is trash. What the director has done is basically just spitting in the face of the fans that have loved these characters for almost 30 years. I rolled my eyes and went along with it for almost 90 minutes and then the train derailed. I don't know that I've ever witnessed a more jarring and sudden character assassination in my 40 years of enjoying movies.

I grew up watching the originals. Have been a huge fan ever since... seen them more times than I can count. Wtf were they thinking with this one..... without a doubt one of the most disappointing & unnecessary reboots I have ever seen.

I am going to try to pretend this one never happened... It was that bad.

Bad casting bad story bad pace bad acting. No character development. Too many plot holes. Nothing to get you "hooked"... if you gotta see for yourself, go for it. Recommend waiting til it comes out on digital if anything.

The music score was kinda dope, as well as a few scenes and the nostalgia was there with a few surprises but overall I left really upset and disappointed. And the twist at the end made me SO angry.

They should have left this one alone. I honestly liked the trailer and idea they had for it more than the actual movie. There are fans of the originals 30 years in the making and they basically just spit in our faces.

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.