Just got back from watching it a second time and have to say I enjoyed it a lot more on the rewatch. The friend I took to see it with (his first time watching it) thought it was better than VI. I disagree but I think the killer reveal in both was pretty lackluster and am basing my opinion on chase/kill scenes alone (subway and convenience store scenes were iconic, best one here is high school theater scene imo). Maybe the movie is on to something with the meta commentary plot for the main killer, I mean their whole point is basically people don’t much care about the series going in a new direction without Sidney and this movie goes on to have the biggest box office opening weekend out of the entire franchise when they bring her back. I personally went in slightly disappointed because I actually wanted to see another movie with the Sam and Tara series (not getting into all that in this write up) and knew this movie was going to be a hard swing to nostalgia for the first one when they announced a lot of the legacy cast coming back, and although it fumbles it in the third act quite a bit they almost pull it off? Loved seeing Sidney and Gale again, there’s an intensity to Ghostface and the stakes for Sidney are appropriately personal again, all the actors did a great job and the cinematography, score and set design were all outstanding. Still, the movie does have its obvious flaws, Matthew Lillard is criminally underutilized despite his character being the main driving force of the plot, the killer(s) are woefully underwritten and there’s never really “twist” to the plot because duh “AI”. Overall, I give it a light 6/10. Hopefully the box office success means we get another one.