Rating: Summary: this movie was ok Review: this movie could have had more.I honestly thought the book was better.I mean i scream more when i babysit during the summer and the kids are watching teletubies or barney.this movie had the basic horror film plan you know people get killed and there is always a survior or two.to me "nitemare on elm street" was better.
Rating: Summary: As a stand alone its ok, but... Review: when you compare it to the book, this is a stinker.Don't get me wrong, if you want a decently good teen horror flick, this will definitely fit that, but if it is supposed to be based off the book, it falls flat. The book is a really good book, and much tamer than the movie. Read the book, forget the movie.
Rating: Summary: Great Horror! Review: It's a scarry one, but also has some pretty funny stuff too! I really liked this one a lot. Ryan Phillipee is way hott in this movie, like yall didn't know that (so is Freddir Prinz Jr.!) anywayz, this is really worth it, along with Scream, its pry my fave horror right now.
Rating: Summary: Well if someone almost killed you, you would be mad also. Review: That's the reasons behind this rather oddball horror flick about a man seeking revenge on the four teens who left him for dead after they ran him over with their car. He get's his revenge on two of the teens while the other two fight for their lives. It's hard to really feel sorry for the teens because their actions lead to their downfalls, and in some ways, they are even more monters then the man stalking them, even though his actions are horrible also. There is no one to like in this movie.
Rating: Summary: IKWYDLS ruins itself by not killing Jennifer Love Hewitt off Review: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" focuses on 4 teenagers - Helen,Barry,Ray & Julie - who hit a person with their car while driving home. The teenagers decide to throw the body into the ocean and let it sink to the bottom then they all make an oath not to tell anyone about the deed and the teenagers move on with their lives hoping to pursue their dreams and future career plans. A year passes and we find out that Barry doesn't get a football scholarship from any colleges,Ray is working on a fishing boat,Helen dreams of stardom crash leaving her to have to work at her father's department store and Julie is gradually flunking out of college. When Julie arrives home for the weekend she receives a letter from an anonymous author which says "I Know What You Did Last Summer". As the movie moves along we find out that a mysterious figure in a fisherman's slicker using a hook as his/her weapon of choice has begun stalking the teens and doing terrible things to them both mentally and physically. The teens soon learn that their mystery person plans to kill tham all on the same day one year ago that they killed that person with their car - The Fourth of July. One by one the killer offs one of the teens or someone who gets in his/her way until only Ray and Julie remain and discover that the mystery person is the same person they hit one year ago - a local fisherman named Ben Willis. The 2 teens end up evading Willis who escapes into the sea and also loses a hand. The ending sets the stage for the poor excuse of a sequel. I enjoyed this movie very much but didn't enjoy the offing of 2 extremely gifted performers - Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe - because after the meet their doom the movie goes down hill thanks to the can't act if her life depended on it Jennifer Love Hewitt who is just as bad in this movie as well as the sequel and all those other movies she's in. The best scene is when Ben Willis is chasing Helen through both the street and the dept. store. I wish Gellar was the star because she's the only reason I saw this movie and is a far better actress than Hewitt and probably could have saved this series from going down the toilet had she been in the sequel instead of perky little Hewitt. I really liked Freddie Prinze Jr. as Ray in both this one and the sequel but by far the best performance goes to Muse Watson as Ben Willis who totally is believeable as the killer and gives one heck of a scary performance in doing so. If you don't like a dits in the lead role then I suggest you rent "Scream" but if you do then by all means watch and enjoy because as far as I'm concerned Jennifer Love Hewitt sucks the potential out of this movie with her unexcuseable acting skills as well as her need to be perky in every movie she's in. If you want to be perky go join the cast of "Friends" for all I care maybe you could be Lisa Kudrow's long lost twin. Thank You, Amazon.com for expressing my opinion.
Rating: Summary: Not bad for a teen slasher flick! Review: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" was the first film to be released after "Scream" reinvented the teen-slasher genre. Adapted from Lois Duncan's 1973 novel, the film followed 4 kids who accidentally hit a man while driving, and thinking him to be dead, dump his body into the sea. One year later, someone in a fisherman's slicker carrying a huge hook exacts revenge on the teens. Is it someone who saw, or is it the dead man returning from the grave? Now, this isn't a bad horror film, not at all, there are some genuine scares here. The chase scene with Sarah Michelle Gellar and the killer is quite suspenseful as well as the very end, which definitely generates the best scare of the whole film. The casting is good, although Ryan Phillipe tends to get on one's nerves, portraying the buff macho jock a little bit too intense. Jennifer Love Hewitt is ok, Freddie Prinze Jr. is a little overly-annoying, but Sarah Michelle Gellar is great! She certainly uses those lungs! I guess all those episodes of Buffy paid off. One thing about this film, is that it makes you think who the killer might be, like in the other post-Scream flicks. Once you find out who he/she is, you'll end up laughing or end up being surprised. One or the other. I also think this film would have been better if it wasn't compared to "Scream" so much, it's a stand-alone film, leave it at that! This was followed by a horrendous sequel one year later in which everything that could have gone wrong with a film, did.
Rating: Summary: Buy it now! Review: This film is great!I watched it at a friends house and half the time i had my face behind the pillow!It's scarey but it's worth watching it.Freddie PrinceJr and Ryan Phillipe are sooo hot and they play their parts really well and also Jennifer love Hewitt and Sarah Michell Geller played their parts really well. It's one of the best film's I've seen! BUY IT
Rating: Summary: viwer Review: I KNOW! This movie rules! YOU HAVE TO GET IT!!!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Sorry I can't say the same for the sequel Review: IKWYDLS is a great movie. Though lacking in originality, it manages to give off a few jumps and scares, has great acting, and a well-written script. It lags at parts, but makes up for it in some of the great suspense scenes. 5 stars
Rating: Summary: QUITE BORING Review: This was the first true product off the conveyor belt of Hollywood teen-slasher flicks after the highly over-exposed SCREAM. Teen-slashers were suddenly back in fashion. And Hollywood loves teen-slashers. These movies are basically the same tripe done over and over, made for very little, with no aces up the sleeve and...actors in their 20s playing teenagers. Something that bothers me very much. You've probably noticed this by looking at my other reviews. IKWYDLS is no exception. Every scene has been done before and the film has little originality. Some of the killings are totally pointless and are only there to fill up the running time and give us something to look at while the characters argue over "who is the killer". A standard argument in these kind of movies. It's a very boring film. It takes ages to get started and when it finally does get going it's more annoying than it is exciting. Bo-oring. The DVD is in Dolby 5.1 and is anamorphically enhanced at 2.35:1.
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