I know what you did last summer, and it was certainly not something good

I know what you did last summer

Directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson

Written by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson and Sam Lansky

With the leading role Chase Sui Wonders, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt

Classification 14a; 111 minutes

Open In theaters July 18

“Zero Stars.” So one of the few surviving characters proclaims I know what you did last summer Towards the end of the film, their bloody tests and trials complain. That ranking is a bit hard- this is more of a 1.5 or dual affair- but the sentiment is appropriate. For every little thing that does the continuation of director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson on the original Slasher from 1997, it has a million other things gigantically wrong.

Just like the original film, directed by Jim Gillespie, chased the Genre vapors of Wes Craven’s 1996 Blockbuster Shout – The films shared a screenwriter in Kevin Williamson, whose previously ignored I know … script was hasty green after the surprise success of Shout – Robinson’s version Try the vibes of Matt Bettinelli-Ollpin and Tyler Gillett’s 2022 Shout To make a so-called ‘legacy follow-up’. The Basic Conceit: Follow the continuity of the first film, but much further in the timeline. In this way the filmmakers can start nostalgia by taking original characters, while they also focus on new, fresher face heroes that will probably appeal to the next generation of cinema visitors. Every demographic victories!

But if that sounds like a strategy that is rough than smarter, then you are already halfway through the spirit of I know … For a long time series producer Neal H. Moritz, who dried this specific franchise for the past three decades. But still, if you don’t remember I still know what you did last summer or are direct-to-video spin-off from 2006 I will always know what you did last summerOr even the short-lived prime video series from 2021, also confusing entitled I know what you did last summer; Don’t worry. Nothing – really, nothing – is important to enjoy this new version. Because enjoying it is a complete impossibility.

The narrative mechanics is exactly the same, in a carefully non -original degree. Four super-sexy friends-the smart one (chase sui wonders), the Ditz (Madelyn Cline), the stupid stud (Jonah Hauer-King) and the Even Stupider Stud (Tyriq Withers)–in the Harbor Town or Southport of North Carolina during the 4 July. There they unintentionally cause a fatal traffic accident and decide collectively to hide it instead of confessing to the police. Well, surprise, that very bad decision comes back to chase them as a mysterious stalker in a rainfit, the beautiful people begins to get out one by one with his or her shiny hook.

In the end, the film Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.’s characters from the original film introduces, giving them pseudo-mentation roles to the new potential victims. Although, the older characters cannot offer much advice than ‘running’ and ‘running faster’. That is what the majority of the film is: characters who go and again until they finally, grively shaft.

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Robinson rarely adds a small visual flair or cruel, but cute gag to the procedure-a bath bomb that becomes Blood Red, a cemetery so unlikely in North Carolina Fog and fog that it feels imported from Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. But usually this is murder-per-numbers material. The murders are boring (for an R-rated movie, the violence is shockingly bland), the characters talk as if they are trapped in a tap algorithm (“It gives wedding!”), And the twist (s) so visible that you could see them in ’97.

While one -off teenage dreams Hewitt and Prinze Jr. Their payment days earn a appearance of gravitas to foolishness, their short presence on the screen only underlines the lifelessness of today’s fresh meat.

CLINE is unbearable as a nagging PROM Queen, while a struggling sui Wonders seems like a totally different artist than the one who gives as good as she gets on the Apple TV+ series from Seth Rogen The studio. The only young actor who comes from the film intact – in terms of his reputation, if he may not be his vital organs – is Withers, who a young Channing tatum canals in his science.

“Nostalgia is overestimated,” says Hewitt’s character towards the end of the film-nog a desperate wink for the public à la the nul-star Jibe. But the line is not so funny because it is just true. Some things are just better buried.