This dumb-as-nails sequel proved to be a temporary final nail in the coffin for the short-lived I KNOW franchise, thank goodness. It also happens to be one of the worst slasher films out there – a god-awful, boring, and utterly clichéd and predictable attempt at a genre already dried out before the film went into production. Dull characters, a moronic, lowest-common-denominator script, and a lack of action all round make this a real chore to sit through. The script is littered with unintentional stupidity and even though it's well-shot throughout, director Danny Cannon can make nothing of this vapid, senseless mess. Watch out for the scene where a girl is frying on a locked sun-bed as her friends take forever to smash the lock, not noticing the dial nearby which would turn it off and save her from harm.The characters range from the irritating to the truly obnoxious – who the heck is Brandy and who thought that she had any acting capabilities whatsoever? Jennifer Love Hewitt is especially bland here and gives a worse performance than in the original, where she looked better surrounded by a couple of decent actors. Here, she's the best actress in the film, and it makes her look godawful anyway. The male characters are clichéd and dumb, and non-actor Freddie Prinze Jr. returns to go through the most unlikely scenario ever devised. I love the way his half-dead accident victim manages to fist fight the villain at the end of the film, throwing what little credibility there was right out of the window. The only decent actor in the film is Jeffrey Combs and even he is wasted in what amounts to little more than a cameo appearance.Despite the new setting, there is absolutely nothing new added to the slasher genre that we haven't seen before. The minor characters are bumped off until finally the central foursome find themselves pursued by the killer. There are a couple of boring, pointless plot twists which don't make any difference to anything, and an over-the-top finale. The film only picks up pace in the last half hour which means there is a stultifying hour and ten minutes of random boredom before then. There isn't even any decent gore to speak of, the film being surprisingly bloodless considering the certificate. A totally worthless addition to the genre which is not worth a watch by anybody.

It is not that this movie has a bad script, or bad acting. It is the whole concept of this movie that is wrong. It's of course powered by 'let's make another ton of bucks" after the success of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, and despite being a hopeless setup, made even more money than the original. One thing here, Jennifer Love Hewitt is even better in this one than in the previous outing. So I value my DVD, I have nothing to complain about, I collect the pretty actresses on discs - and JLH in here is just wonderful. Those big brown eyes, she is every bit darling. I first saw her as the youngster on PARTY OF FIVE, Season 2. Her character there was more in the background from Season 4, because the actress had business elsewhere. You'd figure, for a good cause. Unfortunately, this movie is such a mess that her terrific looks and tremendous appeal really go to waste.The slasher genre plays to a certain type of individual that is really a questionable creature. They possibly kill little puppies in their spare time, yet society doesn't think of branding them as politically incorrect. Blood and gore is okay, but nudity, no, that is deprived! Blood and gore is not obscene, but just don't show us healthy flesh! It sickens me that you could glorify the viewing of bloody corpses this way. It's one thing to have violence in a story, it is quite another to wallow in the bloody entrails. So, I have no respect for the slasher genre. Occasionally, very pretty actresses are involved, and I let myself in to get offended.Characters that exist for no other reason than to be killed off. A good case in point was that Jack Black character. It was a hopelessly weak performance, but the character also turned out to be absolutely pointless. His kill-off was badly, unconvincingly, portrayed, he'd be an embarrassment at a little backwoods village church benefit performance, I mean, he has a long way to go before being up to that level. And so I could go on, from Jennifer Esposito up to almost all of them. Except Jennifer. She is more than marvelous. But meant for something much better.Not that it ever really came. With hindsight, I know she was never really in the kind of movie a cute girl like that deserves!

As much as I did enjoy "I know what...", I resented this sequel: it's a screaming bore. Actually, it may boast a record of screaming time on screen. If there weren't any screams, we would perhaps not have realized that this was supposed to be a scary picture...With the exception of the remainders of the original cast - who probably did their best - the acting spanned from Bad as in B Movie to ludicrous. Several characters helped to create the die-cast idiocy of this rock bottom gem, especially the black couple whose presence probably served as a vain attempt to attract a wider audience. A Meat Loaf look alike moron with dreads provided a failed comic relief. The plot was located at a hotel whose staff, consisting of merely three persons, seemingly did one appearance each. For some reason the three of them had to act as a parody of Basil Fawlty, being ridiculously discourteous towards the protagonists.The most memorable thing about this junk sequel is that the picture was shot in Mexico with the intention of depicting the Bahamas. A similar I-don't-have-a-clue-about-geography device was the stupid twist regarding whether Rio de Janeiro is or is not the capital of Brazil.R.I.P.

The hooked terror from "I Know What You Did Last Summer" continues is this sequel, cleverly titled "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer." Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddy Prinze Jr. returns as the girlfriend/boyfriend couple, albeit separated after the events in the previous film. Brandy Norwood and Mekhi Phifer join the case as Hewitt's friends, going on a vacation in the Banamas, where the hooked menace returns to wreak havoc in their lives. What follows is a cat-and-mouse chase between the psycho-path killer and the young vacationers.This film lacks the built-up suspense, tension and the twists-and-turns from the previous film. While the previous film focused more on plot twists, story development and subplots, this one focused almost entirely on the killer-chases-victims and hero-tries-to-save victim method. However, it's still not bad entertainment with believable acting (although some dialog were a bit campy) and heart-pounding sequences. There are some chilling moments where it might make you cover your eyes, like in the scenes where you might expect to see the killer jump out on screen.Overall, not a bad horror sequel to watch and enjoy some popcorn at the same time.Grade B