Scream 3

Reviewed by: Suad Bejtovic, Bosnian Movie Critic

Directed by: Wes Craven ("Nightmare In The Elm Street")

Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox Arquette, Jenny McCarthy, Patrick Wharburton

Horror-trilogija je, kako kaze jedan lik u ovom filmu, rijetkost, ali se desava. "Scream 3" zakljucni je dio trilogije koja je zapocela prije samo cetiri godine. I naravno, kao sto se moglo pretpostaviti, kriticari i lijevo i desno bacaju i drvlje i kamenje na Wesa Cravena, zauvijek legendarnog reditelja filma "Nightmare In The Elm Street". Meni se, medjutim, cini da Craven nije bio bas sto posto ozbiljan u svojoj namjeri da napravi jedan pravi horror, vec me "Scream 3" vise podsjeca na vlastitu parodiju. Do izvjesne mjere, to je bio slucaj i sa "Scream 2", koji je imao drugi nivo price, "film u filmu" "Stab", u kojem je igrala Tori Spelling. Centralni trenutak "Scream 3" je kratko predavanje Randyja, prijatelja glavnih likova koji je stradao u proslom nastavku. Tema predavanja su filmske trilogije, a Randy spominje "Star Wars" i "The Godfather". Craven se igra sablonima, smjestajuci vecinu ubistava u i oko studija u kojem se snima "Stab 3". Iako su producenti filma molili kriticare predprojekcija da ne otkrivaju vazne detalje price, ta prica i nije bas spektakularna, a njena nepredvidljivost postaje predvidljiva. Znatno su zabavnija sitna prepucavanja medju likovima, kao i mnostvo komicnih situacija. Scene okrsaja glavnog ubice sa svojim zrtvama zadovoljavajuce su destruktivne, napete i, dakako, krvave, a meni je najtuznija ona u kojoj strada Jenny McCarthy, nekih 20 minuta nakon pocetka filma. Kao sto rekoh, zapleti i raspleti su pomalo i traljavi da bismo ih pratili, likovi suvise papirni da bi nam bilo zao njihovih iskasapljenih leseva, kraj i suvise nevjerovatan da bi nas bilo briga, ali je Cravenov stil i dalje nepopravljivo sarmantan. Ovo nije ni najstrasniji ni najbolji film koji je napravio, ali mogao bi lako biti najzabavniji i najsmjesniji.

Horror trilogy, as one character in the movie says, is rare, but it happens. "Scream 3" is the final part of a trilogy that started four short years ago. And of course, as you might have imagined, Wes Craven, the immortal director of "Nightmare in the Elm Street" was heavily criticized for the movie. It seems to me, though, that he wasn't entirely serious in his intent to make a real horror movie, but "Scream 3" looks more like a parody of itself. To an extent, that was the case with the previous two movies, with the "movie within the movie" concept. Pivotal moment of "Scream 3" is a short lecture by Randy, a friend of the main characters, who did not survive the last installment. The subject of the lecture is movie trilogy, and Randy refers to Star Wars and The Godfather. Craven plays around with templates, orchestrating most of the killings in and around the studio where "Stab 3" is filmed. Producers invested a lot of effort to ensure the critics would not leak the important details of the story, but that story is not all that spectacular, and its unpredictability soon becomes predictable. Much more fun are the quarrels between main characters and the multitude of comic situations and gags. The scenes of the confrontations between the main killer and his (or hers?) victims are satisfactorily destructive, suspenseful, and, of course, bloody, with my personal least favorite being the one in which Jenny McCarthy ends up dead after only 20 minutes of the movie. The twists of the plot are a bit too sloppy for us to follow, the characters are too plain for us to feel sorry about their mutilated corpses, and the ending too unbelievable for us to care, but Craven's style remains incorrigibly charming. This is neither the scariest nor the best movie he made, but it is one of the most entertaining ones.