Review of Scream VI

Scream VI (2023)
If only they could write good characters (Mindy is the worst)
25 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I'm sorry but the writers behind this reboot really need to learn that there has to be some heart in your movie. Most of the characters are just plot devices, especially Mindy. She's the worst. She starts with her theories in front of everyone, even her two friends who were almost killed the night before as if it was no big deal. At least, in the first two movies, Randy talked about it at the video store and during class, not in front of Sidney!

Mindy even jokingly "distrusts" and gestures to him as if her own girlfriend didn't die the night before. Courtney Cox does so much while talking about Dewey on the phone for a minute than she does the entire film.

She was the worst in the 5th, and it remains as such. And I know it's not the actress, since she's very good in "yellowjackets". It's how this is written.

Another example of the things the writers should focus on to make this universe "believable": First, Mindy and her brother are not Dewey... how indestructible we have to believe they are?

Second, are we supposed to believe the reporters would back off after Ortega's character hits Gale just to let them have one-on-one conversations and share some exposition?

Third, the sisters take their time to arrange the final confrontation even when the oldest just told Kirby "I'm going to look for help"??? In the others, at least they assumed they were dead, they didn't leave them hanging.

And finally, the bad sibblings...they have to be the second worst reveal (and acting) since Emma Roberts.
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