I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (1998)
A Film Review
Copyright Dragan Antulov 2004
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER was rather uninspired
attempt to exploit the new popularity of teenage slasher horror films
parodied by SCREAM. Uninspired or not, that film earned enough
money to warrant inevitable sequel, I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU
DID LAST SUMMER, directed in 1998 by Danny Cannon.
The protagonist of the film is Julie James (played by Jennifer Love
Hewitt), young woman who is still traumatised by the killing
rampage she has survived in her native North Carolina town two
years ago. The murdering psychopath has been killed, but Julie is still
tortured by nightmares and fears that he would come back. In order
to cheer her up, her roommate Karla Wilson (played by Brandy
Norwood) invites her and her boyfriend Will Benson (played by
Matthew Settle) to Bahamas. While the trio, joined by Karla's sex-
obsessed boyfriend Tyrrell (played by Mekhi Phifer), comes to tropic
resort, Julie's old boyfriend Ray Bronson (played by Freddie Prinze
Jr.) begins to suspect that their old nemesis might be alive. His
attempt to warn Julie fails because of the hurricane that has cut the
resort from the rest of the world. What was supposed to be tropical
paradise quickly becomes another nightmare for Julie.
There are many things wrong with this film, starting with title - I
STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID THREE SUMMERS AGO should
have been more appropriate. Lack of inspiration and disregard for
arithmetic, geography, logic and common sense can be found in the
rest of the script. British director Danny Cannon, obviously
convinced that this film is beyond salvation, doesn't try too hard and
this film follows the teenage slasher formula that had given bad
name to entire genre. The only difference is in the lack of more
explicit blood, gore and nudity - the very thing that most fans of the
genre had appreciated in its golden age. Scenes featuring Jennifer
Love Hewitt in swimsuit might be pleasing to the male section of the
audience, but in the end they would only remind them that they are
now living in much different times than early 1980s. In our age,
spending time to uninspired films and their even less inspired
sequels is luxury few audiences can afford.
RATING: 2/10 (-)
Review written on October 8th 2004
Dragan Antulov a.k.a. Drax
http://film.purger.com - Filmske recenzije na hrvatskom/Movie Reviews in
Croatian
http://www.ofcs.org - Online Film Critics Society
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