This is just one more film about a bunch of youngsters chased by a psycho killer in the line that Brian de Palma started with his interesting "Halloween" and was followed by other titles such us "Prom Night", "Scream", "Urban Legend", the recent "Wax Museum" with the can't-act-at-all Paris Hilton and many others (sequels included).
The point with those titles -"Halloween" aside in which terror comes other way- is that, at least, the murderer was someone related one way or another with the victims; that is the killer was one of them so you could entertain yourself wondering who and why (this not meaning that they were great movies). But "I Saw What You did Last Summer" doesn't even has that; the psycho is somebody we don't know or better someone who saw the kids do what they did and comes for them, but there's no surprise on who he turns out to be or why he kills them. He could have been anyone and for any reason.
The only acceptable performance comes from Anne Heche in a not very demanding secondary role. The rest of the acting, Jennifer Love Hewitt included, is really poor. Some acceptable killing sequences don't raise the product that stands as a totally average and standard one, just watchable for fans of the genre and no mmore than a copuple of times.
The point with those titles -"Halloween" aside in which terror comes other way- is that, at least, the murderer was someone related one way or another with the victims; that is the killer was one of them so you could entertain yourself wondering who and why (this not meaning that they were great movies). But "I Saw What You did Last Summer" doesn't even has that; the psycho is somebody we don't know or better someone who saw the kids do what they did and comes for them, but there's no surprise on who he turns out to be or why he kills them. He could have been anyone and for any reason.
The only acceptable performance comes from Anne Heche in a not very demanding secondary role. The rest of the acting, Jennifer Love Hewitt included, is really poor. Some acceptable killing sequences don't raise the product that stands as a totally average and standard one, just watchable for fans of the genre and no mmore than a copuple of times.