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More of the Same Reviewed by Adam Matthews Director Wes Craven has stated that this will be the last of the Scream movies. On seeing Scream 3 you may be thankful that it is. It is not that Scream 3 is a bad movie, more the feeling that the story has run out of steam. Scream 3 reunites us with the surviving cast of Scream 2. This time round the story is set in Hollywood where Stab 3 is being shot and where the cast is being killed off in the exact order that they die in the film. So enter reporter Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox-Arquette) who reunites with her old flame Dewey (David Arquette) and, together with a new cast of potential killers, attempt to unmask the killer before he/she slays them all. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), still haunted by the happenings of the first two films, also arrives on set when the killer forces her out of hiding to face the demons of the past, one more time. Half the fun of the Scream films is trying to guess who the killer is before he or she is unmasked. The major turnoff in Scream 2 was the fact that the killers were two characters who together would have been on screen less than 10 minutes. The audience never had a realistic chance of guessing who the killer was and as a result the movie lost some of its appeal. Did this happen in Scream 3? I'm not going to say as it may ruin the movie for the people who haven't seen it yet, but let's just say that you may find, as I did, the ending all a little too convenient. Part of me hopes that the Scream trilogy does keep going because I feel, with a little more creative writing, that the story and its characters still have a lot more to give. I still remember how the first film scared the living hell out of me and, despite two slightly less impressive sequels, I would still be one of the first to buy a ticket to Scream 4 to see if they can recapture the magic of the original film. Impossible? I don't think so. Rating: ***½
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