A year after being involved in a hit-and-run cover-up, a group of friends receives a message that someone knows what they did… And then the body starts falling.
So the movie starts with characters talking to themselves or each other in pretty clunky exposition that people don’t normally talk in. Then the actual car crash felt very forced, and like the writers were going out of their way to make the main characters not look too responsible because they want us to not hate them, even though it was a pretty morally gray thing they did. Plus, unless the guy driving had his eyes closed the whole time driving, not to mention the friends themselves, it should not have worked out the way it did; it felt more forced than a Jedi vs. Sith battle lol.
The kills are pretty mid, not bad, but mostly forgettable aside from one or two interesting visuals.
My favorite thing was the performances of Chase Sui Wonders & Madelyn Cline; the depiction of their friendship and the comedic timing of Cline got some genuinely enjoyable moments out of me, so I look forward to seeing them in future projects.
The rest of the cast is fine; they’re all doing their best and in some instances are able to elevate the material they’re given. Unfortunately they have pretty generic things to do, and some just don’t get much of a spotlight to shine or be that memorable, but that’s more the material than the actual performers.
The killer is kind of stupid, because it’s set up so there’s a clear reason why they’re killing.
but they end up killing people that not only have nothing to do with this but also are going out of their way to drive a hook into them, which feels counterproductive to their mission
The pacing is off; it feels like scenes got reworked and re-patched in the editing.
It’s well shot, and I like the color grading.
The callbacks to the original film are also mixed; some feel more inserted than a pig in a blanket, others less so, but I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t one or two I didn’t get a kick out of, but I will say it is more miss than hit, unfortunately.
I did like seeing Jennifer Love Hewitt again; she’s an actress I always get a kick out of seeing pop up in things.
There were also certain parts where it felt like they were writing certain characters to be dumber than they should just to move the plot along, like I know we are here to see people get killed, but the setupcould’ve definitely been stronger.
Without spoiling anything, there was a reveal at the end that I thought was actually kind of clever and interesting, and oddly enough, it kind of reminded me of another 90’s slasher flick, so interesting call and big points for you there.
So this is not a great movie; it has flaws and doesn’t coalesce as well as it should… But it was relatively harmless, and I’d be lying if I said there weren’t moments I didn’t enjoy. I was going to walk out saying I was entertained for the most part… Then another twist happens, which is so left field and has more holes in it than a mound of Swiss cheese at the bottom of the Grand Canyon that, unfortunately, it tarnished the goodwillI had built up, sorry to say. Not to mention the movie keeps going and has a few strenuous scenes that did not feel appropriate given the situation.
I give it a low two stars ⭐️⭐️, and I think it’s pretty safe to just say that if I got a note next year saying, “I know you saw this movie last summer,” I’d be like… Did I? 😂
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