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I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Jennifer Love Hewitt is back as Julie James, who is now in college and decides to do what every victim in a horror movie does in the sequel, go on vacation. Unfortunately for her and her friends,...  View more >

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[--- Wait for Rental ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
Against much debate from my friends, I still beleive this film was good, however it did not make a high rating overall. The only good thing in that film was Jennifer Love Hewitt. The story line is simple enough. Julie James and her friend win a vacation in the bahamas. However much to their surprise, the man she killed the summer before has come back to haunt her. After a few action scenes, Hewitt finally get's this stalker/killer off her hands. The ending is an obvious prelude to a new movie sequal. Despite what many of you may think, despite how much you hear about this movie, I still liked it nonetheless. I will not encourage you to see this, however, I still beleive it was worth my 5 bucks.

[--- See Now! ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
Oh my God, this movie scared me SOOO BAD! It was even scarier then "Urban Legend" and "Scream". I swear, I'm in my dorm alone right now, and I'm still nervous. It has more surprising pop-out parts than any movie I've ever seen. I know I'll have nightmares tonight! Jennifer Love Hewitt and Brandy both kick butt! This movie will scare your pants off! Afer it's over, you'll be jumping at every shadow you see!

[--- Stay Away! ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
“Sequels suck,” the Randy character announces in a film class early in Wes Craven’s ‘Scream 2;’ “They’re inferior films!” He’s totally right about one of the years worst films, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, which is a film so putrid, so badly written and directed it takes on an Ed Wood quality to it. The TITLE isn’t even right, what the person “knows” happened two summers ago, not one.

Picture this: a slasher film that has absolutely no screams, no thrills, and no decent acting. A film that is only made so the guys in the suits can make money. It’s a Hollywood creation, instead of the films made by director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson, who made a great film out of “Scream” and an ironically inferior sequel; yet it was still quite good.

The beautiful and large breasted Jennifer Love Hewitt is the only attraction in this horrible film. She reprises her role as Julie James, who continues to be stalked by the killer in the evil fisherman’s jacket. Even in her dreams. Her first dream shocks her awake, screaming, in a college classroom.

As the film slugs on, Julie and her roommate (the bug-eyed singing talent Brandy) win a trip to the Bahamas. Of course they win, because this is a Hollywood movie. Or it’s just an excuse for Hewitt to show off her breasts more. And wouldn’t you know it, that dude in the fisherman’s jacket shows up again.

The film goes on and on, with one pointless scene after another. Not to mention the characters; from a picky concierge to a pool boy with all the connections to the drugs on the island, none of them really have any purpose here except to eat screen time. We know the killer is that dude in the jacket, and still they waste our time.

And what is up with this guy? All he does is slowly walk around in this green jacket, popping up by surprise where he wants. This doesn’t work at all; even at the end, the killer has no identity, he’s still just another guy in a jacket. Identity was the key seller behind the “Scream” films, here it’s just a waste of time.

In a recent newspaper ad, there is a review that states that this film has “More scares than the first!” HUH? Is this a GOOD review? Or is it a ironic statement, a two times zero joke? I have never been so bored with a film since “Spice World”. Everything in “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” arrives right on schedule; everything is planned. You can feel the wrath of Hollywood in every pore of the face of that guy in the fisherman’s jacket.

Rating: zero stars out of four

Tech Review

Picture: 4 The typical Columbia picture with good use of colors and blacks. Some harsh film grain is apparent on most scenes.

Sound: 3 The Dolby Surround soundtrack features a very minimal soundstage with not that very many surround effects. Even the storm scenes at the end sound rather harsh

Photography: 3 This film feels like a preview that was shot in 1.85:1, then matted to 2.35:1 (see the anamorphic preview for “A Night at the Roxbury”, same thing). The Panavision photography is wide and nice looking in some areas, and then extremely tight in other places.

Length: 96 minutes. Rated R for gory violence and Jennifer Love Hewitt’s breasts. Columbia/Mandalay.

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Jan 25, 2000
This movie was a very good horror/thriller movie! I've seen scarier, but it was a prettygood sequel. Jennifer Love Hewitt is hot and that made it a better movie. This movie is a good thriller, and I hope that they make another one soon!

[--- Wait for Rental ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is a standard slasher, and it's very predictable. Which isn't good, at least in my opinion. At least it's interesting and fairly entertaining to watch, but it's not nearly as good as Scream or even Scream 2, for that matter. Jennifer Love Hewitt is very beautiful, though! My rating: * *

[--- Wait for Rental ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
This is the hollowest horror movie since "Urban Legend", I would like to bring to attention some more of the horror films that came out this year which were actually good. "Halloween H20" was a good movie because it had great nail biting tension, and Jamie Lee's character is much more interesting with a more believable past just like it's monster Michael Myers. "Vampires" had James Woods Playing as a tough vapire slayer whom took no crap from anybody, and these gory scenes were creepier then ever, sort of like a sequel from "From Dusk Till Dawn". "Bride Of Chucky" continued the saga of the killer doll, but this time it threw him a lady friend and they go off on an amusing killing spree. "psycho" is just a masterpiece in itself, nuff said.

Jennifer Love Hewitt, reprises the role as the paranoid schitsophrenic Julie Jameson, her character is just so depressed that there's nothing to watch on screen. Although she is one of the hottest females alive. This is a year after the incident that happened last summer (a little problem with the title), she is now in college away from her home, and her old boyfriend Ray (Freddy Prinze JR.) still comes to visit her and wanting her to come back home with him. Her best friend is Karla (Brandy), Karla's boyfriend Tyrel (Mekhei Phifer), and his friend whom is seriouselly interested in Julie, Will (Matthew Settle). Julie nonstop keeps halucinating about the fisherman with the hook that slayed her friends in the previous films, she knows he's till alive waiting for her, so anything unseen object she hears or vaguely sees, she has a knife to stab that object. One day a radio station calls and offers a trip to the bahamas if the two girls can answer what is the capital of Brazil, they do (wrongly) and win the trip. Will goes as a substitute for ray whom wants to suprise her there. The events that follow and the characters that we're introduced to are pointless and a waste of time, and what is with this fisherman Ben Willis, he likes walking around with that black coat and that hook in his hand all day, following Julie and going unseen all this time. Bull-@#!$. Some scenes are a little jumpy and some are just plain retarded, for instance when julie is getting a tan in that tan machine, the fisherman comes makes it real hot, and locks her in the machine, when her friends find out, instead of turning the heat off first they try to open the lock for the machine, they're SO SMART. Overall i can imagine this better on the small screen and do not recomend this trashy pointless film.

GRADE: C -

[--- See Now! ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
great movie better than the original i cant wait for video i will buy 5 copies it is better than scream, scream 2, urban legends, and the original i know what you did last summer. go out spend the $8 for the ticket and see the movie of the year!

[--- Wait for Rental ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
I Still Know What you Did Last Summer was an okay sequel. It was good up until the end. Although during the movie, there were way too many times when someone would do something stupid. For example: Brandy falls through a greenhouse. Of course, she is locked in and the killer is walking towards her. Jennifer Love Hewitt breaks a very small window with an ax. Brandy crawls out in just enough time to not get killed. Wouldn't it be common sense to hand the ax to Brandy so she can defend herself? But hey, if that happened then it wouldn't be a movie. Although there were some very annoying parts in this movie, it was still pretty good.

[--- Good ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
This movie is one of the best i've ever seen! It's good for anybody who likes thrillers. Trust me, this one is it. The ending is a little bit corny but the rest is excellent!:) Amanda-Wis

[--- Stay Away! ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
This movie was worst than the first of the soon to be trilogy of fake breasts, and plastic body parts. I found that the movie had too much build up for too little action and not one bit of it was frightening. please save yourself and don't even rent it, it will be a bore

[--- Wait for Rental ---]by  
Jan 25, 2000
This horror film is okay, but not worth the ticket price to watch it in the theaters. This is well worth the rental price. For now, you can watch better horror movies like The Faculty.

** out of ****

Review Mistake for Varsity Blues, If you have read my review for Varsity Blues, I meant to give it ** out of ****. Not * out of ****.

May 13, 2003
The reason why \"I Still Know What You did last Summer\" was made simply because the first made money. A poor excuse for picking the man\'s pockets every time a horror film comes out. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Brandy and company are on a island where it rain all the time, and oh yeah! that fisherman with a hook. This film is more of a home video of someone\'s vacation.
Jul 21, 2003
Low grade teen horror flick that can't hold a candle to the masters in the field.

Save your money and rent any Nightmare on Elm Street film, and you'll be much better off than seeing this unimpressive fare.

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