I Know What You Did Last Summer Review

Last summer, on the 4th of July weekend, four teenagers from a North Carolina fishing village, one of them, Helen - Sarah Michelle Gellar - the newly crowned Croaker Queen, are returning from a beach party feeling merry when their car hits a man on the road. Like the women in The Well - a VERY different kind of movie - the teenagers in I Know What You Did Last Summer decide to get rid of the corpse, except that the victim isn`t quite dead - yet. A year later, four lives have already been profoundly affected by the incident when Julie, Jennifer Love Hewitt, receives an anonymous letter - and the quartet realise that someone`s out to kill them, and anyone else who gets in the way...I Know What You Did Last Summer was scripted by Kevin Williamson, who also wrote Scream, but this isn`t a patch on the earlier film. It takes a very long time to get to the point, which is simply to have a mysterious and unidentifiable figure roaming around slaughtering people with a boathook, and when the killer`s identity is finally revealed, it makes less sense than usual. Hewitt`s a likeable heroine, and director Jim Gillespie goes through all the predictable motions, but this is over-familiar and very contrived.