I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer

More of a reboot than a sequel, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer delivers an entertaining thriller. The story follows a group of teenagers that pull a prank that gets a kid killed, and are then hunted down the following summer by someone looking for revenge. The film actually does a good job modernizing and adapting the story, however the characters aren’t that interesting or well developed. And, the actors don’t bring that much charisma or energy to their performances. Still, I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer has a fair amount of suspense and mystery that keeps it engaging and exciting.

'I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer' is a further drop off, following on from the poor 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'. This one is actually better in a literal few ways, one being the opening death and the other is the cinematography.

Aside from those two bits, which obviously aren't enough to make up for anything, it's an extremely weak film. It's more remake of the original than a second sequel, painfully a rehash in a number of scenes in fact. None of the original cast return, none of the replacements are passable.

As always with me, I don't have any dislike for the cast because it's hardly their fault when a film is of such low quality. This movie on its own is evidently one that'll be forgotten, even more so now given the 2025 release is going to be a direct sequel to its predecessor. Hardly a surprise!

Very bad acting but it still has some fun slasher moments.

The three films get worse as the series progresses ending with this pile of excrement. The premise the film is based on was bad to begin with and it never picks up.

There was no suspense and there was no mystery. Just a slasher that has nothing more to give.

Why do I watch crap like this? Maybe because I wanted to switch things up for the 4th Of July this year, so I decided to watch this piece of crap. I vaguely remember watching this when I was probably a teenager. I hardly remembered a damn thing about it but I knew it was bad. I was hoping to have some fun with it and not completely hate it on this rewatch. Boy was I wrong. This is definitely just as bad as I remembered it to be, if not even worse.

This movie is so bad on so many levels. I feel like I’m being overly generous if I gave this 1 star. But I guess it had a few decent enough kills to potentially be deserving of a full star. The acting in this is atrocious. The editing style is probably the worst part. They do all these stupid rapid flash cuts. It’s a terrible editing style that is usually used in really poor production design. This was obviously missing the original cast that created this franchise and it’s super evident. The characters in this were all terrible, unlikable and poorly acted. I mean if we’re being honest this was missing everything. It’s just a poorly made movie in every facet of filmmaking. Don’t even get me started on the stupid decision to make the fisherman an entity that isn’t real. There’s really nothing good to say about this at all. The more I think about it, the more I realize this doesn’t even deserve a single star. I’m happy I rewatched it and now I feel comfortable enough to never watch this trash again.

* 4th Of July: Watch #1

Who actually asked for a direct-to-video sequel to this mediocre slasher series nine years after "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and eight years after "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer"? DTV movies can be reasonably entertaining at times, but this one is definitely not. Whether in front of or behind the camera, no one in this flick was willing or able to remotely do an acceptable job. The script is crap, the direction is catastrophically bad, the cuts are nauseating, the look is ugly, and the actors are all amateurish. Obviously, the only thing that mattered here was to earn a few bucks with the well-known title. A little effort could have been put into it. Do not watch it!