Oddly enough, I was able to predict the killers a lot easier in the last one than in this one, but that's because this one was incredibly stupid. I was never that big into the Scream movies but this one might be the worst. Part 3 was pretty bad but it was more fun than this one.

Who the killers turn out to be makes absolutely no sense. The people playing the killers were clearly big, bulky dudes. They do not match up with who the killers turned out to be. And pretty much all of the characters were annoying. I didn't really care about any of these characters.

@acontributor said:

Let me guess. Was it the straight white male?

And you always know in advance that it isn't a brown/black person.

This was actually the biggest problem with who the killers were, because it would have made so much more sense for the bi-racial twins to be the killers, that would have been interesting, but I knew that wouldn't be the case. Instead both survive (again) despite surviving apparently fatal stabbings.

And yes, two of the main killers were straight white dudes (one an admitted virgin, so incel) and the third killer was female, though the movie starts with a "false" killer who is not a white guy so there's that. I initially suspected the two white guys but thought that would be stupidly obvious, I was expecting the movie to actually take a risk. That was my mistake.

@Damienracer said:

Huh? The killers of this sequel being related to the guy that was killed in the previous movie made no sense to you? What?

Follow my logic. For that to be the case, the main girl Samantha never met her killer boyfriend's parents/family? She never looked at his social media or phone and saw his family? Really? After he was revealed to be the killer his ENTIRE FAMILY would have been on the news or brought up in the media, especially given his dad was a cop. The news would have been all over that guy for a statement.

They fake the death of the daughter and her name never appears in the news? Or rather our main characters never watched the news to see the coverage of their supposedly dead friend/roommate being murdered? Especially when they show us the news coverage of the opening murders? The main characters were shown hanging around with the ambulances after the "murder" and must have not seen the body of the fake dead girl being wheeled out on a gurney?

And then there was the virgin brother who the lesbian twin girl had suspected, but she never checked his social media like most women do these days? I get he changed his name, so even then the lack of social media presence should have been a huge red flag.

But most importantly, as I mentioned, the body shape of the Ghost face killer did not match up with any of the three killers; the brother and sister were just too small/skinny. Ghost face physically overpowers a number of people in this movie and none of the killers, aside from perhaps the dad, had the physical strength to do any of that. The movie basically cheats its way to that ending. It almost feels like the killer was meant to be someone else and they changed it.

My mistake was assuming that the movie would be clever. The killers just turned out be such a boring choice I didn't suspect they would be that lazy about it.

@aholejones said:

What else....Courtney Cox looks really rough like she did in the previous one and I still can't understand why women have such a fixation on ruining their looks with plastic surgery.

I can understand, people in general don't like growing and looking old, even more so for women in Hollywood and all the pressures. But yes, it's a shame for Cox because she looked odd and when she was fighting ghostface her lips were very distracting.

As for the film, like everyone else has said, the storyline was so poor, everyone's actions made no sense (why did the girls have to climb out of the window on the ladder, surely 3 of them could've held the door until the police came) and nobody's even mentioned yet how Hayden was shoehorned in as an FBI agent! I know they set her up as a red herring but her scenes were pretty bad. And yeah, the killers being white again didn't help.

However, I did like how aggressive ghostface was in this (particularly the convenience store scene) and the deaths did seem more graphic. Plus the subway scene was well done.

@Damienracer said:

It's cute you think boyfriends introduce girlfriends to parents some squeaky clean super religious boyfriends may but that just isn't the norm for a lot of young people.

Well, given he was planning to kill her I can see why he didn't introduce her to his family, but let's not pretend girls don't stalk dudes online profiles. And even if he were super careful about that, once he's dead and his identity is known people would have been looking into his family and the news would have certainly mentioned his dad was a cop.

@Damienracer said:

As for the body shape of the killer... Stunt people need jobs too you should be of the age now when you should know actors don't do their own stunts unless they're Tom Cruise.

Stunt people come in different shapes and sizes. My solution would have not cast a woman who looks to be 5'4 to be one of the killers when at no point did Ghost Face appear to be that short.

@Damienracer said:

Wasn't the best Scream movie but it's funny you conveniently leave out Gale fucking a new guy after her saviour across multiple movies Dewey's death... A year ago.

Oh, you mean her new black boyfriend who had maybe two lines and then dies? He was there simply to die and create a sense of danger for that one scene, yet another reason why I though this movie was lazy.

@NeoLosman said:

Must say, I'm perplexed by the griping. EVERY flick in this franchise except the first has been cookie-cutter, unoriginal, and predicatable. Walking into the sixth installment and expecting things to be any different is less rational than tuning into an interview with Kate Uputon, and expecting her to be anything more than a shallow thinker

Yes. Like I said, was never a big fan of these movies, but I was entertained by them. This was the first one I felt like it was a slog to get through. It's the Tokyo Drift of the franchise.