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I Know What You did Last Summer: The Collection (I Know What You Did Last Summer / I Still Know What You Did Last Summer / I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(13)
1 star:		(18)

 

 

Well, the third movie basically uses the same exact plot mechanism as the original movie--4 kids, 2 boys, 2 girls--do something bad on july 4th...then a year later, have all stopped talking to each other, but have to come together when they realize the 'urban legend' about the fisherman may have come true.

The biggest problem with this entry in the series is it is SLOW. it's only an hour and a half but it really drags--even between murders. There are a couple of quite inventive hook moments and some typical fun gore, and to bring the series into the new millennium, there are plenty of short quick "The Ring" edits, as well as a very Ring-like tree that keeps appearing for some odd reason.

Unfortunately, the ending of the film, which attempts to be a shocking twist, since you've been trying to guess all along who it is, pretty much blows the entire movie, putting the series into desperation mode. Luckily, the suspense moments leading up to the outcome are sort of fun.

Still, this is no top notch slasher, and as a sequel, it's simply a rehash. Worth having to complete your "I Know What You Did" series, though.

Lets be honest. I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER and I STILL KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER were less than average horror movies. Throw backs to the original killer teenager one after the other format. STORY? Simplistic at best. The selling point? LOVE HEWITT. GELLAR.

Quite simply, these movies prove that all you need is a hot popular girl... maybe two... and who cares how good of a story you have to tell.

So, along comes I'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. Same simplistic plot. Guy with hook knows you know what you did and wants you to know that what you did is gonna get you hooked. Except... theres no LOVE HEWITT. There's no GELLAR. There's not even a MOESHA... so why watch?

So, if you want to watch 5 more teens get skewered and you don't care about your precious time being wasted, then go for it.

Production value took a hit. Star power took a hit. Script is the same or worse. Movie straight to video for good reason.

First off, I LOVED the first two "I Know" movies. The first one, especially, had such beautiful atmosphere and cinematography and colors and it was just...awesome. Having grown up in the 80s, I was excited to see a new slasher. Scream was always too "uppity", but "I Know" was well done, while not taking itself too seriously. I like part two, also, though not as much. It was great seeing the characters evolve. When I heard they were making a part 3 - and that it was going to be DTV - I was VERY hesitant. So, I went into this movie with very low expectations.

I was not disappointed. Yeah, it starts off as a regurgitation of the original but, by the end, I was - forgive the pun - hooked. I rented it, at first, just to be safe but, after watching it, I immediately went out and bought a copy for myself. I thought the characters were believable (if not always the acting) and I thought the direction was decent (though the flash cuts got a bit annoying).

I'd toyed with my own ideas of how I would continue the series and, I was stunned to see that the makers of this film had actually shared my idea! I was VERY happy with who the killer was and now I'm really hoping they make a part 4.

I am a huge fan of this series.

I especially loved the first film.

The second film was pretty good. Jennifer Esposito & JLH made it above average. Even though Jack Black was nerve shattering.

However, this film, I wasn't so crazy about.

There is no Jeniffer Love Hewitt. But we knew that. Not even Freddie Prinze Jr.

The movie was a lot like the original, just not as good, and it seemed to drag overall.

No t&a. Bummer. At least JLH flashed some great cleavage.

I really didn't like the whole thing with the killer either.

The fisherman (Ben Willis) is of course dead, and now it seems like he's a supernatural killer back from the dead. Seeming to get his power from the legend. When teens pulls deadly pranks on the 4th of July, he's there (no matter where) to wreak havoc.

I didn't really care for that.

I'm pretty much upset that after nearly a decade of waiting for a third installment in this series, this is what we've gotten.

Pretty much a let-down overall.

Oh well, at least we can still see JLH on Ghost Whisperer.

Having just seen a press advance of this movie, I thought I'd post my first impressions.

I'll confess to being caught up in the teen slasher craze of the late nineties - movies like Scream and Urban Legend really floated my boat back then, and to a lesser extent, still do. I Know what You Did Last Summer and its over-criticised sequel certainly slotted into this category nicely.

A sequel more or less in name only, the plot sees a group of teenage friends deciding to keep the death of their friend in a backfired prank a secret... one year later, in the days leading up to the tragedy's anniversary, the four receive ominous 'I Know...' messages before being picked off one by one by a hooded character in the 'Fisherman' outfit from the first two movies. Who could possibly know what they did? Is it someone out for revenge? Or is the original fisherman back to wreak more havoc?

From the box art (and the seven year delay) it was clear that this was never going to have the same high production values or quality acting as those late nineties slashers, but I didn't quite expect as far a drop as this. White's direction, while lacking any genuine drawn-out suspense, is at least edgy and 'hip'; sadly, acting from all but the pretty lead Brooke is decidedly wooden. Four or five minutes into the movie, you can see why Sony decided to bypass a cinema release in favour of a straight-to-video one.

That said, if taken as a low budget teen slasher in the vein of 'The Pool' and 'Lover's Lane', it actually works quite well. The true identity of the fisherman is well hidden, with various red herrings keeping the audience guessing. The special effects appear to have consumed a large chunk of the budget, too - one gutting, akin to the 'hook in the throat' from the first 'I Know...' movie, is particularly gruesome.

Ultimately, I felt let down by the ending - but I would imagine everyone's opinion would really depend on their reaction to the killer's identity. As a sequel to what I consider two of the most enjoyable slashers of the late nineties, 'I'll Always Know...' fails miserably. Taken as a standalone low budget slasher, there's more of a hook. 2.5 / 5.

Horrible. Pathetic. Cheap. Amateurish. Dull. Uninteresting.

This movie conjures up so many adjectives for sucking. I could not believe what I was looking at. This has to be one of the absolute worst things I have ever watched. The acting is terrible, the story is thread-bare, the lighting is horrendous, and I could not find one single redeeming quality in the entire mess. This looks like some average, everyday person took a camcorder, got their friends together, and said "hey, let's shoot a movie!". The sets appear to be places that the "film makers" found on the days the businesses were closed and they just snuck in and started filming at any hour of the day that they could get there. Nobody needs to bother with this. Pure junk.

THIS REVIEW DOES HAVE SPOILERS SO BE WARNED!

I personally don't mind a brand new cast of characters but what I did find disappointing is that this film was almost a mirror reflection of the first film with its formula. They are all a close group of friends and through tragedy they go their separate ways keeping an awful secret until boom, a year later, one of them gets a cell phone text message "i know what you did last summer"...blah blah blah. Okay, here's the problem. It would have been fine and dandy if the killer turned out to be a real human being that wanted revenge but instead, the killer turns out to be some supernatural zombie creature. What isn't explained is how this creature came to exist and why it suddenly decides to resurface with this group of teens? At least Freddy Kruger resurfaced on Elm Street where he has a connection and Jason is connected to Crystal Lake, but for what I can only presume to be the corpse of Ben Willis, what the heck is he doing in this town? It would have made sense if they had the group of kids fool around Ben's grave and perform some sort of voodoo ritual or something along that line, but its a mystery. And I doubt it was an intentional mystery. Its just sloppy writing. Another thing I want to point out is that the death and scare scenes were predictable. The slashing of 'what's his face's' foot at the swimming pool was similar to Ryan Phillipe's encounter at the gym in the first film. The death scene at the concert of the rocker chick is similar to Helen's (sarah michelle gellar) death in the first film. I knew who was going to survive and who wouldn't. As with the first two films, the ending also leaves us hanging. Overall, the actors did a decent job and their characters are all likeable for the most part but the storyline needed serious work.

I Know What You Did Last Summer was an edgy suspensful slasher flick and offered decent onscreen kills, gore, solid acting, and a couple of scares that truly jolted viewers. It was followed by a rather tongue-in-cheek sequel that found itself more preoccupied with the movement of Hewitt's breasts than with actual thrills and chills. That said, that sequel is a work of art when compared to the newest "direct-to-DVD" concoction.
New faces pull a new trick that results in a friend (or aquaintance... their grieving is so short lived) dying accidentally and the friends behind the amuck prank vowing to keep it a secret. Of course, one of them wants to get the cops involved... but she ends up giving in to the peer pressure for no real good reason. To top it off... the whole prank is stupid in the first place and is something that only dumb people would do to end their lives quicker.
Anyways... a year later, the notes start to appear and Amber (the lead) starts feeling as if she is being watched. Then her other friends start to accept that maybe they are not safe with the secret they harbor... but of course, all too late. They begin to get slaughtered one by one... but of course, after a few dull stalking scenes. This film tries to mimic the plastic sheet scare from the first one and actually fails at pulling it off. The whole sense of "been-there-done-that" was to prevallant.
The acting is bad. It isn't truly dreadful... it's just bad. The editing is pretty crappy as well... although some of the camera work is pretty scenic and eerie. The kills are rather gory and a couple of them are a bit far-fetched. And of course... with movies of this type there has to be the big reveal and in this film that moment is so... LAME. Who the killer turns out to be just doesn't fit with the rest of the film... although I suppose to somefaint degree, it ties this movie to the other two. I was mildly entertained by the movie until the end happened... and then I was just blown away in dumbstruck confusion... wondering who wrote this pile of stew...
Trust me... it is pretty bad.

"I know What You Did Last Summer" was, by and large, a fairly decent slasher film. It was left open, wide open, for a thoroughly unnecessary and unentertaining sequel.

Now, Mandalay Pictures has seen fit to bestow upon us yet another entry into this tired little series. This one, "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer," initially caught me by some rather unexpected surprise. It was actually, hands down, better than the first two films that preceeded it. The production value was acceptable, and the refreshingly non-star cast did the screenplay some very major favors. You don't need a top-name cast for this sort of film, anyway. It does nothing but distract.

While I can't say I was altogether thrilled over what writer Michael Weiss has done with the Fisherman character, I do give him some measure of credit for assembling an otherwise moderate story.

I have two gripes, however, that I feel need to be addressed. First of all, why does each and every killer in slasher films these days have to be a complete and total carbon-copy of Jason Voorhees? The Fisherman is not, and never was, unstoppable. He's a guy, an Average Joe who was initially out for nothing more than simple revenge. But here, in this film, he's taking bullets left and right and actually even survives a fate near the end that will have most everybody reading this laughing in a puddle of their own tears. That, of course, leads me to my second complaint. The closing minutes, once again, infuriatingly leaves everything open for another installment. Yes, you read that correctly. It was practically all I could do to keep my fist from shattering the television screen.

There is absolutely no valid reason, in heaven or on earth, why this movie could not and should not have ended this series. Watch for yourself and dare to tell me I'm wrong. This particular ending, in all honesty, is what drove me to rate the entire film a substandard two stars instead of three. Oh well, live and learn. That's what I say.

This one was pretty good for a little bit. Until the very end was when I didn't like it. The reason I didn't like it was because the killer was some kind of demon or something. I mean, Ben Willis was supposed to be the Fisherman, not some demon. I would not recommend I'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER!!!