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.

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.

This movie spits on the original in the most crude way possible. This was bad through and through.

Dull actors who can't deliver their lines believably. Bad special effects. Boring all the way through, predictable from the start.

The script was laughably awful.

This was more comedy than horror, pure comedy.

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.