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it's now the anniversary of the slayings of julie james' ( jennifer love hewitt ) best friends .
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still besieged by nightmarish memories of the man responsible for it all , she seems to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown .
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she can't concentrate on her schoolwork , can't get a good night's sleep , and is even frightened by the shadows and the blinking strobe lights at a local dance club .
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everywhere she looks , she sees visions of the man in a rubber slicker with the hook on his hand .
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in the first movie , `i know what you did last summer' , julie and three of her friends accidentally kill a man , running him down while driving down a dark mountain highway .
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to cover their misdeed , they dump the body into the ocean .
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however , he never quite died and returned to hunt down julie and her friends .
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julie and one other , ray ( freddie prinze jr . ) , survived only to make this dismal sequal .
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needing some desparate rest and relaxation , she is elated to learn that her college roommate , karla ( brandy ) , has won a trip for four to a secluded tropical island .
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accompanying these two girls are karla's overbearing boyfriend , tyrell ( mehki phifer ) and a potential beau for julie .
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but was this contest too good to be true ?
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the resort is filled with a skeleton staff that seemed like love boat rejects .
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meanwhile , the hotel is practically deserted as the storm season is about to begin .
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this presumably creates a venue where they will be secluded and will have no possible means off the island .
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eventually , they will be hunted down during power outages and chased around during intense lightning storms .
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as you might have guessed , somewhere in the shadows lurk a mysteriously strange figure that is wearing a rubber slicker and wielding a hook .
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julie tries to convince her friends that the killer is on the island ( an eerie touch is when she is singing " i will survive " at the karaoke bar and the words scroll " i still know . . . " ) , but her friends chalk it up to paranoia .
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but the body count soon starts to rise , and for julie , it's going to be the worst vacation of her life .
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the funny ( yes , i used the word 'funny' ) thing about this movie is that i heard more chortling and giggling ( maybe it was my giggling ) than i heard screaming .
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this movie boils down to a mindless slashfest that never conjures up any amount of wry wit or even a quirky campiness .
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there isn't even any suspense that leads up to the deaths .
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here's an appropriate example .
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knock-knock .
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" housekeeping " , says the diminuitive cleaning lady .
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the door suddenly opens up .
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slash .
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next victim !
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is there any reason to go and see this movie ?
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not unless you want to see four uninteresting college kids run around in circles for about 90 minutes .
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but i do want to say one thing about this movie that satisfied me .
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i was thoroughly irritated with tyrell , who incessantly ranted and raved about his sexual libido .
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i secretly wished for him to get filleted .
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did he get 'hooked' ?
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well , let's just say that if he didn't , i would give this film a grade of " d " .
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