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88For the initiated, the third time's a charm. For everyone else, it's just a scream.
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80I enjoyed every moment of this densely plotted final chapter, and most other fans will too.
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80It's a pleasure to report that Scream 3 is an absolute riot, jammed with spicy cameos.
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80It's a pleasant surprise to note how good Scream 3 really is.
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80Genuinely scary and also highly amusing.
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80Funny and brisk, with enough good lines to make the comedy more satisfying than the somewhat routine but still unsettling jolts to the spine.
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80A crafty and well-crafted wrap-up that really does bring a satisfying sense of closure to the franchise.
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75(Craven) and his Scream dream team have done a frightfully good job of killing off and wrapping up the popular horror series.
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Scream 3 also has wit and intelligence, but at their core the Scream movies are still slasher films and this one is no exception.
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70But it IS enjoyable.
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70A lot more fun than "Blair Witch," and it's more relaxed and goofy than its two predecessors -- a farcical bloodbath.
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70It's plenty entertaining, but the ending is disappointing, given the buildup.
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63Just isn't very scary.
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63It's the chemistry between the Arquettes (they met on the first film and married after the second) and their rapport with Campbell that sustains Scream 3 through its overly convoluted plot.
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63At its savviest, Scream 3 is a cheeky conceptual conceit, cheaply executed for the sake of achieving trilogy status. Instead, it's like a carnival that's been in town a week too long.
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60Not so good is the absence of hip cross-references to the classic horror tropes.
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50Essentially an interlacing of irony and gotcha! Scenes.
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Although Scream 3 is often clever in the way it interweaves the worlds of "Scream," "Stab" and life outside the theater, it's not exactly groundbreaking.
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50Campy, overwrought and gleefully cannibalistic in the way it references and regurgitates horror flicks of yore, Scream 3 fulfills its modest ambitions by delivering a glib slasher spoof for the mall crowd.
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50Even if Scream 3 lacks the punch and verve of the first two installments, it manages to wring some ironically metaphysical comedy from the movie-within-a-movie motif.
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50Where Scream 3 triumphs is in its wacky, take-no-prisoners, I am a Juggernaut of Terror, Hee, Hee attitude, which wisely makes room for some downright surreal moments amongst the carnage.
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50About the only thing the movie kills with any decisiveness is your time.
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50Simply can't sustain interest for much of its final hour.
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50Slower, more earnest, and not as gory.
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40It's got turns, it's got an attractive cast that gets shish-kabobed with ruthless regularity. It's just tired.
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38At 116 minutes, this third installment lumbers along like a serial killer in shackles.
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38A lame little flat liner.
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38Cowardice and cliché - not a tasty combination.
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33What's left is a husk with all the superficial features of a Scream movie and none of the heart, brains, guts or laughs.
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30Logic, motivation, suspense -- anything that might make the film frightening or resonant -- is buried under Dolby blams, medulla-shaming dialogue, and a rain of overdubbed hunting-knife schwings that grate like a 3 a.m. car alarm.
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30It's time to run, screaming.
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30First rule of a film trilogy: Part 3 sucks. See "The Godfather 3,"" Alien 3,"" Jaws 3." Even "Return of the Jedi" was just a rehash of "Star Wars" with muppets. Add Scream 3 to that trend.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 15 out of 31
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Mixed: 5 out of 31
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Negative: 11 out of 31
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They say third time's a charm. Well, wait until you see "Scream 3", and then you WILL 'scream'.