I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006)

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

It's July 4th in a Colorado small town. Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin), boyfriend Colby Patterson (David Paetkau), Zoe (Torrey DeVitto), Roger, and PJ are friends playing a prank on the local carnival. Roger dresses as the feared Fisherman to spread the legend but PJ dies in an accident. The remaining friends decide to keep the prank a secret. One year later, aspiring photographer Amber returns to town. She receives the feared text message and the mythical Fisherman descend on the group.I thought the Fisherman needed to be near the ocean. Certainly, it would help the motif to be near water. I don't know why the franchise moves to Colorado. The Fisherman becomes a mythical killing machine like Michael Myers or Jason. Jennifer Love Hewitt is nowhere to be found in this straight to DVD sequel. At least, there are some good physical kills. Nevin maintains interest as the lead. The characters don't have enough time to develop chemistry or rooting interest. The franchise is scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point.

The original Jennifer Love Hewitt film is obviously the only good one in the series, the sequel also with Hewitt was rubbish, and I was sure this third film straight to DVD instalment would be bad as well, directed by Sylvain White (Stomp the Yard, The Losers). Basically on July 4th, in the small town of Broken Ridge, Colorado, teenagers Colby Patterson (David Paetkau), his girlfriend Amber Williams (Brooke Nevin) and their friends Zoe Warner (Torrey DeVitto), Roger Pack (Seth Packard) and P.J. Davis (Clayton 'Clay' Taylor) are at a town carnival. At the carnival entertaining park they decide to play a prank, using the legend of the Fisherman that appears on July 4th to stalk and kill teenagers with dark secrets with his hook. They are successful in scaring a number of the people attending, however the prank gets out of hand and goes wrong when P,J. is performing a trick jumping with his skateboard, and an unexpected accident occurs, when P.J.'s body is found impaled on a pipe, the public believe it to the be the Fisherman behind the death, so Colby convinces the others to burn the evidence and make a pact that the secret will die with them. A year later, Amber receives 50 identical text messages on her cellphone, from an unknown number, saying "I Know What You Did Last Summer", she automatically gathers that this is referring to the accidental death they caused. Amber goes in search of Zoe and Roger, and Colby who she parted with, to find out if they told anyone else about what they said they would take to the grave, all have moved on into different career and personal circumstances, none of them have said anything to anyone, however P.J.'s cousin Lance (Ben Easter) also knows what they did somehow. Soon enough the situation gets worse when a man dressed as the real Fisherman wearing the dark slicker is chasing the teenagers with a hook to kill each of them, the killer is towards the end revealed to be the decomposed Ben Willis (Don Shanks), the man who brutally committed the original murders ten years ago, but even shoving his head into a thresher doesn't stop him reappearing a year later as the Fisherman to kill last survivor Amber. Also starring K.C. Clyde as Deputy Hafner, Michael Flynn as Sheriff Davis, Brittanie Nicole 'Britt' Leary as Kim and Star LaPoint as Kelly. The story may not be repeating what was seen in the previous two films, it is a completely new story as teenagers accidentally kill someone in different circumstances, and the gore created by the killer stalking the teens is still the hook, but it has a silly and rushed script, lame acting and a predictable plot, it's just another daft (more so than the second) sequel, a dreadful horror. Pretty poor!

Fast paced movie, the editor knew what he was doing with the awkwardly shot footage he/she received, the concept of the movie could of been one of the biggest surprises in direct to DVD release to the point where it could of become a cult hit, instead whoever wrote the dialogues and whoever directed the movie, definitely ruined it. Illogical reactions from the characters make you feel stupid just for keep watching it, but is a fast movie so you just hold it. There are no good or gory deaths at all maybe except one at the ¨climax¨ of the story, where they reveal way too soon and in the most anti-climatic killer reveal you will ever see that comes in the shape of an on point dialogue with terrible delivery.Then after the surprise is over you are so confused about how a good concept was used in such a dumb way, so the only conclusion you can get to is that it is a dumb movie, cos it is. Also is obviously full of clichés in terms of character archetypes so don't expect the only cool character to outlive it.

I'm only giving this film more than 1 out of 10 because of the "So bad it's good" nature of it - the only entertainment you will get out of this movie is laughing at how terrible it is. Of course, that's not exactly a recommendation, but if you are planning on seeing it, watch it with friends who have a good sense of humour.The writing is probably the good thing about it, and one line in particular was actually funny enough to make me laugh non-ironically, but all attempts at horror fall flat. This is not helped by the terrible acting from almost every cast member, including the clearly-living corpses. Additionally, the twist at the end (that the villain is the somehow-revived original villain rather than one of the other cast members) was very annoying, considering the movie encourages you to try and work out who it is. Overall, unless you're a fan of mocking bad movies, this is one to avoid.