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Summary: Technically competent but devoid of thrills or chills
Review: I guess no one really remembers "My Bloody Valentine," which was a Canadian film anyhow, so now we have a new slasher film for everyone's favorite romantic holiday. Once again we have an unfortunate incident from the past, a junior high dance, coming back to cause a whole bunch of deaths 13 years later to a group of five young women: the nice one, Kate (Marley Shelton), the sexy one, Pagie (Denise Richards), the funny one, Lily (Jessica Cauffiel), the smart one, Shelley (Katherine Heigl), and the (formerly) fat one, Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw). The only male appearing high on the cast list is David Boreanaz, who plays Kate's alcoholic boyfriend, Adam. We had to rent this movie because Boreanaz plays Angel on TV, and it is in her performance that you most note the FOUR writers are not giving the characters anything new to do.Director Jamie Blanks' commentary track makes it clear that he is a devotee of slasher flicks, but perhaps he ended up being too careful in the construction of this movie. Only the final scene constitutes anything approaching a significant twist, and given the one dominant clue in the film it ends up being pretty much telegraphed. The photography is certainly more luscious than you expect in a slasher flick and Marley Shelton stands out as the young woman obviously slated to survive, but when all is said and done "Valentine" is devoid of scenes of any decent suspense or horror. This ends up being an average slasher film and that means it is not very good. Actually, the music video was the most exciting thing on the DVD (and "My Bloody Valentine" was a scarier movie).
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Summary: buy the dvd and play frisbee with it
Review: unless you are a 15 year old adolescent boy who likes to look at full figured female bodies, dont bother
Rating: 
Summary: Not much of a horror...
Review: Well, I do not say it is not entertaining, however there is a long way before I call it 'horror' etc. Actually it is addressed to teenagers rather than adults . When I went to see this one,
I was expecting murder cases with investigations, like I read in some mysterious -horror books by skilled authors. Then it turned out to be the sort - creating horror by force so the customer will think it is horror and get scared, which it is not so.
All based on girls' valentines - this movie is just an empty plastic bag with some nice colours.
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Summary: Differant horror film, better than ... scream ...
Review: This film is pretty good. If you can get past David boranez and Merly Shelton terrible efforts, it is enjoyable.
I have seen alot of horror films in my time. This is much more original than hmmmmm. I know what you did last summer, Urban legand and of course scream.
The plot goes like this...
Jermey a ugly duckling was assulted and rediculed in 6 grade. Mostly a group of girls made fun of him and hurt him most theese are Paige(Richards), Lily(caulffeil), Shelley(heigl) and the person who got him sent to a nut home Dorthey(capshaw). Well 10 years pass and shelley is brutally killed, Lily does not show up to a appiontment and the girls relize jermey is back to reak revenge on his insulters. But who is it Adam?(David boranaz) or dorthey's boy toy(Cosgrove). It could be Gary orMax the girls are stumped and scared! They must find out who it is before they are next!
Despite the scary plot, I could not help but snikker at some of the gifts the killer sent the girls one of the cards go like this. Rose are red. Violotes are blue. They will need dental records to identify you. Definitly not hallmark. The movie is alot darker than the scream type films and alot more suspensful than Urban legends or I know...
Props to Richards and capshaw they do a good job in there suited roles. I definitly recommend this to horror of thriller fans it's differant!
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Summary: Drivel
Review: OK, what a waste of time, don't get me wrong I love horror movies just as much as the next fiend, but this one takes the cake for stupidity. How can you make a horror movie that is so utterly devoid of suspence? I feel sorry for teens who think that today's horror movies are actually scary, they should check out Hallaween and Friday the 13th to see how it's really done. I guarantee that if they saw Michael Myers or Jason delivering spine shattering blows upon thier victims and death from above they would change their tunes.
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Summary: A good buy
Review: How far would u go for vengeance?How far would u go for a decent movie?Look no further..(for the movie)Check this one out!The only real bad thing that comes to mind about this movie is that it's theatre realease didn't do so good because of the over hyped Hannibal and the after affects of scream 3 on this genre.But the thing is,this movie is actually pretty good.The story is solid,the death scenes alone are worth buying this dvd,and not to mention the killer ending...he he..
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Summary: This movie Bites! big time!!!!
Review: Okay, so I'm a bit older than what I assume the target audience for this film to be. BUT - this movie (which perports to based on a novel) is nothing but rip-offs of low budget slasher films from the 70's and 80's. We open on a middle school dance (later we will find out that this was supposed to be a Valentine's Day dance, but it is never mentioned as such at the time). And since when do you where masks at Valentine's parties? Anyway, a school nerd is traumatized by having red punch thrown on him (nod to Carrie) and then humiliated (ala Prom Night). Years later a girl is killed while working on a cadaver (this is supposed to be a unique situation I suppose, but is nothing more than a slight rip off of the Reanimator). More girls, more deaths, more boys, more deaths - each one is so predictable and quite frankly, boring. I've seen all these deaths before in Friday the 13th, the Burning, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. ad nauseum. Are we to assume that the characters in this movie have never before seen a horror film? If so, please tell us this important tidbit of data. Otherwise, Denise Richards wandering off in the middle of a party to take a bikini clad dip in the hot tub is just a bit too droll. We know she's going to die. And we know how - the moment she gets in. Girls wander off to empty rooms only to die via whatever obvious implement of death was there one second and gone the next. Oh my!!! Did you see that - the axe was there a second ago, but now its gone - gee, I wonder if he/she will survive!!! If you react like this, then you've been living in a dank room for the past twenty some odd years. There are even a couple of really really bad "did you get that?" lines. David Boreanz, who plays the vampire Angel on the television show of the same name plays one of the girls' boyfriends. She says of him, "I know he's no angel, but I like him." Come on - puleeeze! I don't want to give away the killer to anyone brain dead enough to actually not see it a mile away, but it seems odd that he wears a coat just like Angel. Don't bother! If this hadn't been a free rental, I'd have been really ticked. If I had paid to see this miserable dreck in the theater, I'd have been even more ticked.
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Summary: Terrific update of early '80's slasher films
Review: Thirteen years after the school hotties humiliate the class nerd at the sixth grade dance, they all receive threatening valentines that are signed with his initials. Then they are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant. Sound predictable? Maybe, but this one is creative with touches of originality - a breath of fresh air since this genre was pretty much ground out by 1984. Better-than-average slasher film had me guessing - I thoroughly enjoyed this. Features include director commentary and interviews with cast and crew.
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Summary: Good orginal slasher movie
Review: Valentine is a pretty good slasher movie. The storyline doesn't stop to murders, the characters developped, they are young adults who have their own problems and touch of evilness, they are not perfect and innocent which is to my mind more believable than a naive teen. The murders are original and Denise Richards is just perfect. There is also good suspens with a very good ending but I won't tell you.
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Summary: This really cool movie needs a sequel!
Review: Please Warner, please Village Roadshow, bring us a sequel to Valentine! I also think as most of the people that if Valentine was released some other time, its box office would be bigger. Its box office was not small at all, but it could be better. And I also agree that the sequel has to go to the theathers, if they do it thinking they're doing a direct-to-video movie, I think they shouldn't do it. Valentine is a great scary movie with great performances by David Boreanaz (TV's Angel), Marley Shelton (Sugar & Spice), Denise Richards (Wild Things) and Jessica Cauffiel (Urban Legends: Final Cut). The director of Urban Legend, Jamie Blanks, does a very good job again. VALENTINE 2... CAN'T HARDLY WAIT!!!
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