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While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, a new Ghostface begins to terrorize them once again. Scream 3 is once again directed by Wes Craven and stars and Neve Campbell my biggest problem with this film is that it's not as strong as the previous 2 films and Ghostface is not as strong as he was before with Stuart, Billy and Mickey but the film still packs some punches for example the beginning of the film, that scene with the mirrors and Parker Posey or even cameos like Carrie Fisher. Scream 3 is basically the Rocky V of the Franchise neither bad or awful but neither great or amazing just a good sequel with some pretty good moments in it.
swilliky
The crew returns to make this horror franchise a trilogy. This time, the killer is stalking Hollywood and the stars of a meta movie Stab 3 based on events of Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and company. Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) and Dewey Riley (David Arquette) also return as wealthy consultants for the films and amateur detectives. The killer starts with Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber) and works their way through the actors in the new film in the order that they die in the script.The movie expounds on trilogies and skewers the shallowness of film stars. Randy (Jamie Kennedy) is revived in a video to explain the rules for the third part and this means that things from the past will come back to haunt the main characters. The plot does come around and connect with the other films though the final explanation comes off as a little flimsy. Wes Craven embraces the campiness of this slasher flick a bit more than the first two.Check out more of this review and others at swilliky.com
MaximumMadness
To call "Scream 3" a bit of a mess would be an understatement. A big, bad... frankly pretty severe understatement. It's messy. It's tonally confused. It's far too silly to take seriously in the the moments where it's supposed to be serious. It's sometimes too serious to be silly in the moments where it's supposed to be silly. And all too often it falls prey to the exact same tropes and clichés that the two excellent previous films had gone out of their way to cleverly subvert and satirize. In essence, "Scream 3" is the sort-of film that "Scream" and "Scream 2" poked fun at.Yet, I can't hate it. I won't. Because for all it's bizarre miss- steps and eye-rolling moments, it does fundamentally round out the story the behind the series in a very cool way, and it even develops the characters and plot line through a few... well, very fascinating (if not slightly convoluted) twists and turns. And at the end of the day, it's a fun, breezy watch thanks to these new directions and the wonderful chemistry of the returning cast.Just don't go in expecting another wonderful round of nuanced and clever meta-humor mixed with visceral thrills thanks to a great script. Because sadly, this is the one entry in the series not written by series creator Kevin Williamson, and it shows.When a string of mysterious murders begin to bump-off cast members and others associated with the production of the third "Stab" film (which were loosely based on the events of the original "Scream" movie), original survivors Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers are forced to travel to Hollywood and try to solve the mystery of what is going on. And when it becomes all-too-clear that this new string of events is part of a plan for the killer to get their hands on Sidney, revelations about her own past will come to light... revelations that could not only change her life, but lead to its end.To get it out of the way, for the most part the cast is at the top of their game. Neve Campbell is the beating heart of this film (even if her screen time is slightly limited in comparison to the first two), and I think it could be argued that the one thing the film does 100% perfectly is its handling of the Sidney character and how the film puts her through some excellent development. David Arquette is as fun, silly and likable as ever. And new cast members like Patrick Dempsey and Parker Posey are a lot of fun.The only sore thumb really is Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers, who falls a little flat. And believe me, it's not Cox's fault. The fact is, her character is very mishandled in the story, and she comes off as far too... whiny and bratty for her own good, constantly needing to be "saved" by other characters. It just didn't quite work in this film. Though as I said, it's not the fault of Cox.It's the fault of the messy, hit-or-miss script.Story goes that series creator Kevin Williamson wasn't able to commit to this film due to scheduling conflicts, and he was replaced by writer Ehren Kruger. Kruger, while doing some good work on his own, just wasn't a good fit for the material. He didn't quite seem to be able to properly balance the satirical, humorous elements with the serious and horrifying. Though he tried his hardest undoubtedly, the result is a bizarre mish-mash of concepts and ideas that are generally far too broad and disconnected to really "gel" together into a cohesive experience. And as a result, he has to go back to the old some tropes. Cliché after cliché to try and fit the story together and deliver the jokes and scares. In essence, relying on the very same things that the last two movies joked about. So, it's just... awkward and messy when it tries to strike that fine balance needed for this sort of film.Thankfully, his effort at least paid off for the Sidney character, and for the interesting story beats the film takes in its second half. It's just a shame you have to slog through so much awkwardly- placed and out-of-left-field attempts at emulating Williamson's expect meta- humor and clichéd cat-and-mouse killer scenes to get to these interesting beats.Thankfully, director Wes Craven is still at the top of his game, and he's able to elevate the weaker script and play up the facets of it that do work thanks to his wonderful and sometimes poetic visual storytelling.As it stands, "Scream 3" is a mess. But an occasionally satisfying mess due to the things it does well. It suffers some weak writing and for inadvertently falling back onto the same clichés that previous films joked around with, but has just enough "oomph" in its second half to be worth seeing once for series fans.It's a middle-of-the-road 5 out of 10 for me. Not so much a "Scream" as an exasperated gasp.
brandonhelee
I must say I'vie once was a massive Scream fan but as the years went on and my film watching grew I slowly realized that Scream isn't the god send to the horror genre as most people make it out to be and Scream 2 was just a even more stale version of it's predecessor. Now we get to Scream 3 sure pretty bad but certainly the best of the franchise. Scream 2 instead of brining nothing new to table that admitted Scream the original brought something Scream 3 brought something new. The film is about our typical Dewey and Gale relationship that's been getting old but unlike Part 2 it seems a little bit more heart warming to see this relationship grow into it's happier state in the end of the film. Sydney in this film comes off more like a lame Halloween H20's Laurie clone same thing goes for the equally horrendous Rob Zombie's Halloween II. We got a lot of blank almost non existence characters in this film like the security guard & plenty of others. I like the element that they we're playing around with Hollywood and the sleazy underbelly of it. The killer in the film comes off a little too whiny and complainer but I'll take a solo man act over the very much gay relationship between Billy and Stu or the generic almost comical Billy's mother of which was only saved due to her sidekick having a small bit of social commentary but with Roman I like a solo case and the emotion behind it. Scream 3 unlike Halloween H20:20 Years Latter should'vie been the end of the series but we got a worse film eleven years later in Scream 4 of which I consider to be the worst of the whole franchise might review that soon. Scream 3 seemed like a perfect closure to the Sydney,Dewey & Gale storyline instead of a lame bastardization Halloween H20's ending would'vie brought to Michael Myers something non Halloween fans would consider great.
