Movie Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer

Director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson's legacy sequel, "I Know What You Did Last Summer," struggles to find its place in the trend of empty nostalgia in horror cinema. The film follows Julie James, played by Jennifer Love Hewitt, and her friends in a North Carolina fishing village haunted by a past crime.

The new generation of characters, including Ava Chase and Grant Spencer, find themselves entangled in a deadly game of secrets and survival. While the original 1997 film was praised for its freshness and literate genre tropes, Robinson's update feels imitative and lacks the same impact.

The attempt to mimic the rhythmic dialogue of the original falls flat, and the film's reliance on nostalgia is ultimately unfulfilling. Despite some well-executed kill sequences, the movie fails to offer a fresh perspective on its predecessor, leaving audiences questioning the purpose of its existence.