Valentine Details

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.<br>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!<br>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...<br>All in all, a fair film, worth a watch with the lights off.

Sub-Standard Slasher

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.