Reviewed by Melissa Garza
“You’d let both of us die, just to keep your secret?” Dakota (Lindsay Lohan)
Lindsay Lohan’s recent Playboy shoot has brought her back to the public’s eye and has shifted some focus back to her 2007 film: I KNOW WHO KILLED ME, a controversial flick at the time that painted Lohan in a new light.
Aubrey (Lindsay Lohan) is a teenage writer wanna-be who attends football games and plays the piano. The color blue seems to surround her existence. Her boyfriend gives her a blue rose, her piano teacher has a big blue ring, and the football team’s jerseys are blue. So, Aubrey is abducted by a crazy torturing serial killer. He cuts off limbs, and here’s the strange part. He wears blue surgical gloves and uses blue tools.
Aubrey’s father, Daniel (Neal McDonough) receives a phone call saying that they have found his daughter and that she’s alive. He rushes down and finds that she is missing an arm and a leg. When she awakes and becomes alert, she reveals a startling twist. She is not Aubrey. She doesn’t even know Aubrey. She is Dakota Moss, a tough as nails, stripper who had a crack-head for a mother. Just a blue surrounded Aubrey’s life, the color red surrounds Aubrey’s. Stranger still, is that Aubrey had been writing a school project where Dakota was the focus.
Now, this movie attempts to be deep. It tries to be smart and wants to be a more-than-meets-the-eye type of film. In fact, one of the tag lines was, “look for the clues.” It’s pretty sad when a movie feels the need to tell the audience what to do to properly understand what they’re watching. Worse still, is when the production blatantly pounds the hints over and over again. “I Know Who Killed Me,” takes fore granted that those watching are going to be of the lowest intelligence, and wants to ensure that they know what’s going on. The easiest example is the colors; blue = Aubrey and red = Dakota. Even a four year old could understand that concept.
Here are the theories offered. Dakota is the twin sister of Aubrey and therefore they share many odd parallels. Dakota is a figment of Aubrey’s imagination and as Aubrey is being tortured she uses this fantasy to cope. Aubrey is a storyteller and wrote this entire film as a project for her class and we’re hearing her relay it. In any event and whatever the case, the movie failed.
Perhaps, the creators are able to read all of the poor reviews and console themselves with thoughts of, “they just don’t understand the plot.” The truth is the movie is so poor that noone wants to unravel the mystery. Nobody cares.
There are movies where the ending is open to interpretation, and the film is better because of it. “Warlock Moon,” and “I Bury the Living” are two of the best that come to mind. There are so many differences between these and “I Know Who Killed Me.” The characters in the latter lack depth, insight, and most importantly, a shred of intelligence. The color ‘scheme’ didn’t work and the dialogue was awful. There were absolutely no surprises. The sadistic killer was predictable and lame. There wasn’t a redeemable moment in the production. “Warlock Moon” and “I Bury the Living” used simpler techniques. They weren’t trying to be intelligent productions; they just were. They were thought-provoking and compelling throughout, and in the end, the viewers are captured in the moment. They do want to unravel the secret and find out what the actual ending is. This is what “I Know Who Killed Me,” wanted to be, but it hadn’t a clue of how to accomplish it.
The acting, too, was awful. Lindsay Lohan has the potential of being a quality performer, and this exception could be in direct relation to her highly publicized addictions. Nonetheless, someone should have thoroughly read through the script before signing. Another notable casualty is Neal McDonough. Typically, he is an excellent addition to any film. He was excellent in “Walking Tall,” and the recent “Tin Man.” Nonetheless, his talent couldn’t salvage even a moment of this horrible movie.
More than anything else, the pretentious tone is irritating. The creators wanted it both ways. The film attempts to relay that it is a sophisticated production for people who are intelligent, but then treats the viewers like morons. What is supposed to be subtle is blatant and what is supposed to be clever is obvious.
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