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Valentine (2001)

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(53%)

Starring:	Marley Shelton \| David Boreanaz \| Jessica Capshaw \| Denise Richards \| Jessica Cauffiel \| Daniel Cosgrove \| Katherine Heigl \| Lauren Lee Smith
Director:	Jamie Blanks
Studio:	WARNER HOME VIDEO
Run time:	98 mins
Genres:	Horror
Languages:	English
Hearing-impaired:	English
Subtitles:	Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Romanian
Released:	October 22, 2001

From the director of URBAN LEGEND, VALENTINE is a horror story starring David Boreanaz (ANGEL) and Denise Richards (WILD THINGS). A group of four precocious college girls makes fun of one of their nerdy classmates--a young man who harbors a serious grudge about it for years afterward. Finally, having grown into a handsome, self-assured man, he goes back to get his revenge: Each year on Valentine's Day he takes one of them on a murderous date.

Rating of 1 stars out of 5

A handful of girls who were spiteful to a schoolboy when they were young find themselves the target of a brutal killer 13 years later in this lame chiller (could it be the same nerdy boy, now grown up?). Directed by Urban Legend's Jamie Blanks, it contains all the horror clichés and dumb moves (girls wandering off on their own while a killer is on the loose) you can fit into an hour and a half, plus a handful of inexcusable plot holes. Male viewers may be attracted by the obvious charms of Denise Richards, while women may go for Angel star David Boreanaz, but, whatever your reason for watching, you're bound to be disappointed.

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5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 3.0 stars

Annie#12 from IBSTOCK, 13th July, 2004

David Boreanaz in something other than Angel got me ever so excited, but unfortunately, this film didn't really. He seemed a bit out of place, and Denise Richards was downright awful, though I did like Jessica Capshaw as Dorothy.
Valentine is OK as far as the teen slasher type thing goes and actually has a fairly decent plot, in that it makes sense! And it managed to keep me guessing on the is-he-or-is-he-not-the-killer thing, until towards the end when there is a fairly subtle and very clever clue - watch out for it and you'll see what I mean!
It seemed to me after waching the directors commentary, what could have been one of the most important scenes was actually cut - it told the identity of the killer (though late enough in the film so as not to spoil it) and, more importantly, explained the events of the last few scenes as, not watching too closely at one point, something quite major did confuse me until I watched that bit again. But, then those actually sitting watching properly might have a bit more about them than I did and realise what was going on...
All in all, a fair film, worth a watch with the lights off.

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3 out of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 2.0 stars
Horrifying....but not in the good way.

HyperMediocrity from from Bristol, 3rd April, 2007

Director Jamie Blanks once again proves that he hasn't got an original bone in his body with the terminally mediocre Valentine, in which a group of unfeasably good looking school friends get stalked on the run up to Valentine's day by a person that may or may not be the geek they all picked on in high school. The 'acting' is laughable with each of the group sounding as if they are reading their lines direct from the script, with no convincing interaction throughout. (Denise Richards is the chief offender here, proving that Wild Things was, indeed, the limits of her acting 'talents') David Boreanaz escapes with more dignity as recovering alcoholic Adam, but only just. The remaining characters are so annoying you long for the psychotic cherub to turn up and hack the hell out of them. When the violence does get going Valentine is a suprisingly bloodless affair. The majority of the deaths either appear off screen or are cut so quickly you don't really get a feel for what's going on (save for a gleefully violent death involving a neck, a boot, and some sharp shards of glass(for which I will add another star). Blanks is clearly a director of the Post-Modern Scream-esque cannon of directors, who think that if they are too graphic then the audience will be disturbed (but then, surely that's the point?) Valentine is also guilty of a Horror movie's worst sin: it's just not scary. In place of genuine shocks are a collection of worn out cliches and obvious musical stings that scream 'JUMP HERE!' You've seen everything here before; a slew of possible candidates, groups that decide to split up even when they know a killer is stalking them, a killer you think has passed you by but clearly hasn't, etc. However, it's not the cliches that sting the most, it's the distinct lack of passion in which they are delivered. Instead of a suspensful stalk and slash picture, we are given a tepid, by the numbers genre pic, with a horrendous final 'twist' that, as well as being pointless is glaringly obvious to anyone with half a braincell. Obviously not the director then....

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3 out of 4 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
Sub-Standard Slasher

Rhys Davies from Leicester, England, 21st March, 2004

As a big fan of slasher movies i give them all a try - but this is a pretty poor example.

Valentine is more old school, Halloween than self-referential, post-modern Scream. A masked killer stalks various teens for, we are led to believe, revenge on humiliations heaped upon the school geek.

The fairly imaginative death scenes are a slight plus but really this is not up to scratch. For a slasher like this to work both the deaths have to be gruesome and the killer distinctive.

Sending Valentines cards before you kill someone ? Somehow i don't think Jason Voorhees would bother.

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