Why is it a sequel movie is not as good as the first, hopefully you will enjoy this and then want to see no3, Yes there is a no3, i won't say anything about it. I will do another opinion on that. Hope this helps you choose whether or not to watch this film.
If you are reading this review and have not seen the original, then stop reading and go rent the original.
It is two years since the senseless murders in Woodsboro, Calif. and the four survivors from the original have gone on to other things: Gale Weathers (Cox) has written a book on the killings that has now become a film, Stab (which is the setting for the really interesting opening with Jada Pinkett and Omar Epps), Sidney Prescott (Campbell) is now in college with fellow survivor Randy Meeks (Kennedy), and Dewey Riley is no longer able to do police work since the stab he got in the first severed a nerve and left him with a limp and slight loss of use in one arm. The new characters are as follows movie freak Mickey (Olyphant), new boyfriend Derek (O'Connell), new best friend Halle (Neal), new cameraman Joel (Martin), and Cotton Weary (Schreiber; who was seen in a news report in the first film) is along with Weathers to get his hands on the last few seconds of his fifteen minutes of fame.
The only problem is that I really can't say too much about the plot because it is so hush, hush. But of what I can tell you is that there is a copycat killer of the first film and he or she or they (I must keep from giving anything away) begins right after the release of Stab and that chances are you will never predict the killer(s?).
The returning actors are great, but two of the new comers are problematic, Olyphant is uninteresting and O'Connell is not a very good actor. The writing is as always cutting edge (no pun intended) and Craven out does himself in the direction. But as that ending came off as a nice gesture, I must admit, I felt a little cheated. Once again, another sequel that just cannot live up to it's earlier companion.
This is a no no for children but adults may like it.
(Dir: Wes Craven, Starring Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Jamie Kennedy, Jerry O'Connell, Liev Schreiber, Elise Neal, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Timothy Olyphant, Duane Martin, Laurie Metcalf, Lewis Arquette, Rebecca Gayheart, Portia DeRossi, Jada Pinkett, Omar Epps, Philip Pavel, Tim Hillman, Tori Spelling, Heather Graham, Luke Wilson, David Warner, and Roger L. Jackson)
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