Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 3 (2000)

4/10

Starring

David Arquette

Neve Campbell

Courteney Cox

Directed by Wes Craven

Not written by Kevin Williamson, like the first two movies, mind you.

Scream 1 and Scream 2 had plots that made you sit and enjoy as you watched things unfold. Both previous movies had the juice and thrill needed to forever remain in our minds as slasher classics.
They weren’t just critical successes—they were also commercial successes. But before you knew it, the producers started working on Scream 3, with its lackluster plot, weak scenes, and unbelievable moments.

Scream 3 is one movie you won’t be laughing with, but rather laughing at. Thrill and suspense were plastered everywhere to the point of ridiculousness, and then there was this whole thing about “trilogies”—what a load of crap. The movie not only wasted your time, but it also made Sidney look like a supporting character.
Then there was the finale, where the killer is on the loose and needs to be stopped. Everyone was in the same place, the same building, with a killer running around. The logical thing would’ve been to stay in one place and beat the crap out of him. But no—our actors didn’t do that. They were all running around, making a mess of things.

This movie felt more like a bad B-movie. The plot shows Sidney living in isolation, cut off from everyone. Now, that’s understandable, given what happened in the first two films. From Scream 2, Gale’s book was turned into a movie, and now the third installment, Stab 3, was being made.
Death returns as someone involved in Stab 3 is killed, with a picture of Sidney’s mother left on the victim.
This made everyone uncomfortable, but no one could predict that another person involved in the movie would also get murdered. This leads Dewey, who was on set as a consultant, and Gale, who showed up after hearing about the murder, to join forces and start investigating.

Meanwhile, things are getting crazy for Sidney. She’s being haunted by the memory of her mother (all of this is tied to something in the movie that the writer or director didn’t bother to explain or bring up).
When the killer finds Sidney (no clue how), she leaves her hiding spot and heads to the set of Stab 3 to join Dewey and Gale as they hunt for the killer.

Well, the hunt doesn’t go far, because—just like in Scream 1 and Scream 2—the killer is someone among them.

The movie was a commercial success, but it’s a bad movie and not worth mentioning as part of the Scream franchise.