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| Witness the End of Lindsay Lohan |
| "I Know Who Killed Me" is a brutal film |
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Brian Orndorf (briano)  |
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Published 2007-07-28 13:59 (KST) |
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 |  | | | | | | ©2007 360 Pictures | Even before recent tabloid events exploded across the cultural wasteland, Lindsay Lohan's movie future was in dire straits. After viewing her latest big screen adventure, "I Know Who Killed Me," who could have predicted a bust for alleged cocaine possession, vocational self-destruction and a general display of young Hollywood stupidity would be the career highlight of her weekend.
Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan) is a bright college student recently abducted by a serial killer who enjoys severing the limbs of his female victims, sending her parents (Neal McDonough and Julia Ormond) into panic mode. A short time later, someone resembling Aubrey is recovered, but the young woman claims she is Dakota Moss, a stripper and all-around hell raiser. With confusion in the air, Dakota sets out to solve this crucial mystery of identity, hoping to find Aubrey before time runs out.
"I Know Who Killed Me" is an insistently amateurish mystery/thriller/horror/comedy. I'm not sure where to even begin describing how awful the movie is, but Lohan's barely-alive performance is a good start.
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| You often read the description "talented" next to Lohan's name in the press, and this summer's "Georgia Rule" found a ripe emotional arc the actress rode to impressive results. After viewing Lohan's sleepy, baffling performance in "I Know Who Killed Me," I'm beginning to question whether the praise heaped on her was premature.
"I Know Who Killed Me" offers Lohan her first me-and-only-me starring role, presenting the actress with a chance to play bookish and virginal, along with sluttish (though she plays the strip scenes practically in a parka, you know, just like a regular stripper would) and dangerous. Lohan's interpretation of the material is to perform the dual role sluggishly, hoping the rest of the film will be wicked enough to cover her lackluster Univision-level reactions and fruitless attempts at expressing pain. She is just dreadful in the film, completely comatose where another actress would have leaned into the varying speeds of the screenplay more assertively.
Frankly, blaming Lohan for this turkey is cruel. From the buffoonish opening moments, "I Know Who Killed Me" is obviously a lost cause and gets worse as it stumbles along. Director Chris Sivertson is shoving the material into nourish overtones, especially when the focus is on Dakota and her sultry pole-dancin' ways. Using Lynchian imagery to shape "I Know Who Killed Me" into a surrealist nightmare, Sivertson is in way over his head, and it leaves the artsy touches looking foolish in a picture that soon dissolves into a bloody, lumbering "Saw" rehash. All the owl symbolism, color coordination, robotic body parts and blazing neon cannot hide the fact that every decision made in the execution of this feature film was a poor one.
There is an ending to "I Know Who Killed Me" that I cannot honestly recall a mere hour after watching it. I'm sure it had a twist and some explicit violence but I don't believe it possessed an actual resolution. My mind was elsewhere by this point in Dakota's investigation, recalling a time when the name Lindsay Lohan meant an expectation of quality acting and the promise of a passable feature. Perhaps those days are over.
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Kendall , 2007-08-31 14:12
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