Jaymes Warde

If, like me, you love part 1 and 2 then skip this one. Or watch it as a separate movie universe all together. SPOILERS AHEAD The typical feminist girl boss man hating trope really kills this genre. Julie and Ray were made out like main characters in the trailer but are glorified extras in the movie, julie has about 20 minutes screentime over all and Ray has less. Julie barely moves during any scene and we all wanted our power coupke and scream queen again. A typical out with the old and in with the bad acting new gen z actors which all have confusing never explored and totally forgotten backstories. Making Ray a killer and his reasoning was so stupid and ruined the character. It would've made more sense to bring back Will, or maybe Mr Shivers or Missy with another actress (rip Anne Heche) and have one of them be a killer due to grief and anger if a big cover up was going on. Maybe even another relative of Ben. They totally ignore all the male victims of 1997, the og killers and focus way too hard on Helen Shivers was an obvious shove her in the spotlight to hype up SMG (no hate love her) for the buffy reboot. Part 2 basically never gets mentioned and is totally swept over, I didn't see it as our cinema cut everything off but I heard Brandy gets a cameo. The og killers dont even get mentioned. The dream sequence was cool to see Sarah Michelle Gellar but it would've made more sense if it was Julie who had the dream after a big showdown, where she and Ray with the other survivors are attacked and one killer is revealed and killed, Helen appears to warn Julie about the second. Could've given us a cliffhanger and possible set up for another movie.

It's really bad. Writers basically pushed out and forgot about the main 3 characters in favour for a boring non likeable and no character group of gen z. There was no real story and in my opinion its the worst in the franchise. I don't really like modern remakes but this is one film that needs a serious remake.