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A friend of mine gleefully insists on referring to I Know Who Killed Me as “Lindsay Lohan’s last movie … ever!” and quite frankly, if the actress’s career depended solely on the quality of this film, he might not be wrong. What is being billed as a suspenseful psychological thriller is lacking any suspense or psychological depth, and generates cheap thrills only from scenes of torture, gore, and the occasional “jump” moment of pseudo-shock. It is possibly the dumbest movie I’ve seen all year, surpassing Code Name: The Cleaner and Are We Done Yet?, which at least provided the occasional laugh.
The trailer and advertising for I Know Who Killed Me downplayed the fact that the R rating on this film isn’t only for offensive language or nudity, but for violence and gore. I didn’t realize this and judging by the number of kids in the preview screening crowd, I suspect I wasn’t alone. The movie contains graphic scenes of dismemberment (and attempted re-attachment a la Sicko), photos of mutilated dead bodies, and torture-style violence. The decline of popularity in “torture porn” might have caused Tri-Star to downplay this aspect of the film, but it is a disservice to parents whose children still like Lohan from her Mean Girls and Herbie Fully Loaded days.
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