Great Start - Dreadful Ending

Rating: Null/10 (18 August 2000)

SPOILER ALERT Like most fans of the 'Scream' genre, I was really looking forward to seeing this particular film, mainly because the last few attempts at this style were poor to say the least ( Urban Legend etc ). To begin with, I was not disappointed - the opening scenes are very good and kept everyone on the edge of their seat, but come on - who could not have known that it was a dream ? ( Well the person sitting behind me actually, did she think the film was 15 minutes long ? ). Having said that it did add to the story and set the rest of the film up nicely. So, no complaints at this stage. However, as the film wore on it got progressively worse, as we go through the death scenes - it becomes very clear who is going to be killed and who is going to survive. I would go as far as to say that what should have brought excitement to the screen made the film a bit boring and predictable. The ending was dire, are we supposed to believe that Alex was going to be killed ? - Give me a break. To make things worse they left an option open for a second film - surely they cannot expect us to sit through that again. What could have turned out to be a classic eventually became yet another dud.