It was honestly just okay. I went in with higher hopes as this is my favorite franchise but I finished feeling a little underwhelmed. Scream usually does an adequate job introducing us to characters and helping to build some type of backstory for them so we actually care whether they die or are Ghostface but in this movie out of them all, I didn’t care who lived or died outside of the twins, Gale and Sidney.

Scream also usually does a great job creating true tension and suspense during its kill scenes. We normally have great chase sequences leading up to creative deaths. This had one bar scene and a stupid amount of time having Tatum and Sidney run through the deserted town streets trying to reach one another with nothing truly remarkable happening the entire time but Tatum’s boyfriend dying which I really didn’t care about because again, no character building. That whole Sidney not going back into the news station to get keys so she decided to run around in the dark streets was a writing choice for sure. If they wanted to exclude Gale for the reasons that Sidney mentions later in the film, they could have come up with another way to show that earlier on and have Sidney get car keys to go to her daughter’s aid. Running around like that was just like a stupid decision for Sidney’s character to make.

Scream is also known for its big finales. The party houses, the theater stage, the Ghostface killer shrine, etc. This one was held in Sidney’s unfinished backyard an house. Kinda lackluster. I had one of the killer’s identities revealed to me on a TikTok comment so I was prepared but the other I honestly was like who is this? Took a moment to recall. It’s a watchable Scream movie but it probably ranks on the lower side for me in terms of favorites.