Review of Scream 3 (2000) by Francisco R — 07 Apr 2012

Scream was a masterpiece, Scream 2 was a great movie but Scream 3 was really flawed. There was just something missing in it, some thing that the first Scream had and even the second had. I think here it starts a bit to repeated. This movie had great twists and fortunately things that I didn't saw coming but compared to the first two Scream's, it doesn't even look like another Scream movie. Surprisingly, the acting was a bit worse, even the actors from the previous movies didn't had so sattisfying perfomances and the rest of the cast, just sucked, most of them were just unknown actors and they had a really bad acting here, wich is one of this movie's many flaws. I'm really sad not only because Scream is without doubts my favorite horror movie and that I found Scream 2 great, it's also because Wes directed it, saying doesn't even sounds real. Sow, wether you know it's bad or not, I'm sure you'll watch it, because even though I knew Scream 3 was a bad movie, I just had to watch it and still, despite its lots of flaws, it will always be good to meet the characters again but then, it's just a cliché and it takes too many things from the previous movie. Sow, Scream 3 is a bad movie, it's only entertaining at times and most of the times is when you think you're gonna get scared but even the horror scenes start to be a bit predictable. Bad movie.

Wes Craven directed it, I can't even believe he directed this movie, he did an outstanding job with the first and even with the second but this one, I just want to forget that he directed it. David Arquette takes the lead role this time, he was great one more time, David is known from Scream, Scream 2, Eight Legged Freaks and some other movies. Neve Campbell was okay here, not so good as she was on the previous movies, but still okay, Neve is known from Scream, Scream 2, Wild Things and some other movies. Courteney Cox was not so enjoyable, she was just acceptable, Courteney is known from Scream, Scream 2, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Bedtime Stories and some other movies. Patrick Dempsey was just unnecessary, he was no big deal, Patrick is known from Enchanted, Made of Honor, Tranformers: Dark of the Moon and some other movies. Sow, as you can see this movie has a great cast but the perfomances... well, the actors' perfomances surprisingly got lower here, even the chemistry between David and Courteney got less enjoyable and not mentioning the rest of the cast, wich was just complete by actors that made this movie be infested of awful acting. Great cast.

Stab 3 is now in production and a new cycle of killings begins. A new killer is on the loose and he wants Sidney (Neve Campbell). Sidney, Dewey (David Arquette), Gale (Courteney Cox) and Detective Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) are now trying to prevent any other killings and get rid of the killer, but they didn't know that there's diferent rules in a trilogy. Rules of a trilogy: Chapter on sets the rules. Chapter bends the rules. But in the finale... forget the rules.(What I thought about the plot) Sow, this movie's plot is like the last movie's plot only with the trilogy theme now. I didn't like this movie's plot, it was too repieted and stupid and obviously, the movie didn't work well with this kind of plot. Besides, instead of repieting good things, they didn't, they should repiete the things in the plot that bring Scream a certain glow and this movie didn't had even 1% of it. Sow, I think this movie's script was very badly written, the plot's writer did such a good job with first two scripts but here, instead of being inspired and finally be a bit more creative, he just blow it. Bad plot.

Soundtrack, well, that's one of the only good things that I can remind about this movie, they remain lots of bad things here in Scream's third chapter, but remaining the soundtrack was a great idea, it was just very well composed.

Besides all that, I am now going to tell you what I really thought about this movie. First of all, I think Scream 3 shouldn't have been done, it was just very unnecessary, it didn't new how to separate cliché from originality like Scream 2 did, well, I don't think Scream 3 even had originality. I just didn't had a good time watching it, there's lots of predictable and cliché horror scenes, there's only two or three reasonable horror scenes and the number of entertaining scenes it's also around that number... Sow, I'm sure you'll have interest to watch Scream 3, I mean, even if we know that the movie sucks but the saga is amazing, we always end up to give it a try and usually you don't feel regret because you knew that you're going to end up watching it some how and even though I didn't had that much of regret, cause I knew I was going to end up watching this movie, but still, there's a little bit of regret some where over me. Overall, I didn't like Scream 3, it was a huge disappointment and it shouldn't be worth of being the third chapter of the remindable horror saga, this movie had a great cast, a bad plot, a great sountrack, but it wasn't really entertaining or spooky. Sow, if you haven't watched Scream 3, let me tell you wich rule is necessary: If you just hate to watch bad movie, than don't watch this one. Scream 3: 4.0/10. Bad.

Bad movie. Not recommended movie. Grade: D.