I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

Very disappointing...

It is a performances centric movie

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Actually if anything my soul is more alive and appreciates the small things in life and what little time we have. We should not be wasting it on horrible movies like this. And now spoiler alert. First of all to the protagonist who claims she knows who killed her. No you don't know who killed you or the movie would have gone like this:I know who killed me - Him Ok lock him up boysThe end. Second of all you are not dead so explain to me exactly how you were killed yet you are still alive.I will give one thing to you though Miss Lohan, you are good on the pole. Actually your acting in this film isn't bad either. Maybe the other actors acting is a little stiff but not yours.The worst thing about this movie:Is the plot when there is one. The rest of the time Miss Lohan is stripping, or having an awkward sex scene which if it is supposed to be a gory torture porn film then its okay. The director is obsessed with the color blue. This is not Three Colors: Blue man. The 'killer' is maybe from the Blue Man group. There are some red herrings or rather blue herrings. The prosthetics tech guy was a little suspicious. He happens to be Darneo from my name is Earl great show by the way. In the end it happens to be this random guy who frequently appears on the screen that you would think is obviously a red herring but it is him all along. The owl keeps helping our character find the crime scene. That is obviously Twin Peaks. The plot:So basically we have twins separated at birth by Damien Dark from Arrow and one gets abducted by a psycho and he amputates one of the twins. Through the supernatural phenomenon of 'Stigmata Twins' where if one twin gets injured in a particular part of her body, the other twin also gets injured in the same part of the body. 'Twin Dragons' by Jackie Chan comes to mind. Which begs the question how could you conclude that your twin sister is dead because her dying would lead to your death too? Finally the movie should be called 'I Don't Know Who Abducted and Amputated but Didn't Kill My Twin Sister'.

Some films have a colour scheme, some films uses colour to make an artistic or symbolic point. I know who killed me is one such movie that at some point might have gotten that memo but something got lost between that memo and the set designers as every...single shot of this movie has blue in it somewhere. I am not joking- honestly as from the very moment this train wreck starts blue is in the shot and it never leaves. The colour is thrown seemingly randomly at anything and everything, there is no symbolism to this blue mess as the only discipline is chaos. I can only see Director Chris Sivertson saying the following "Paint everything blue! Do entire rooms in the stuff! Everything must be blue!! Blue roses, blue lights, blue rooms, blue clothes? Throw them in! I don't care if it does not make symbolic or artistic cohesion just throw it all in!" This makes the film look as if it does not trust the viewer to be smart enough to think past the pretty pictures nor does evoke the style of Dario Argento or David Fincher that it wants to copy. Instead it makes the film somewhat ugly to look. It overwhelms the viewer to the point that it irritates them as well as distracting them from the rubbish that is happening on screen.Speaking of rubbish, what is the plot of this movie? Well, Aubrey Fleming (played by Lindsay Lohan) is a fantastic student who is great at writing, she is loved by everyone as well as her boyfriend who she does not want to have sex with (this is going to change later in the film in the worst scene of the movie). Then one night she gets kidnapped by some serial killer (We never get a nickname or why he does kill teenage girls.) She is kept there for a few months until being discovered by a driver in a ditch however when at the hospital she claims that she is not Aubrey Fleming but Dakota Moss, a stripper who looks just like Aubrey in every way expect her personality which is more foul mouthed, sex crazed and all around nastiness that Aubrey is not. Now it is up for the police and Aubrey/Dakota to decide if Dakota is really Aubrey and find the killer.At first this seems like a needlessly gory rip-off of Silence of the Lambs and Seven but it quickly descends into an awe inspiring, incoherent mess that meddles with twins sharing injuries and seemingly supernatural serial killer stalking that does not work in the slightest way. I found myself going between laughing at the robotic acting and shouting a very loud "What" whenever something stupid happened on screen. The killer has no motive to speak of and just kidnaps Aubrey from a crowded street with no witnesses what so ever. Even after the killer is revealed it does not make any sense as we had only one scene with culprit beforehand until the end. The film ends very sudden leaving such questions as 'what happens to the other person, what will the parents say after getting back their daughter? Where did the police vanish to in the final act? Why were the police even there to begin with if they did nothing to further the story?' At the centre of all this is Lindsay Lohan. One must not forget that this was the first movie where she is an adult and it shows, the very first scene is LL as a pole dancing stripper whose moments are so sluggish and obviously choreographed that they are about as sexy as a half-melted chocolate bunny rabbit. She is so desperate to prove that she is an adult that there points in the movie where she gawks at shirtless hunky boys which screams "I like boys do you get it?! I like boys." She has sex with Aubrey's boyfriend while Aubrey's mother in downstairs listening in the most cringe worthy scene in the movie. She swears like an angry sailor because she wants to be seen as a grown-up. She wants to prove to us that she is a woman and no longer a good child actress, now she is a mediocre adult actress that killed her career thanks to this movie.I now who killed me is a bad, bad, bad film that thinks its smarter then it thinks it is. It is a graveyard for LL's promising career and is one of the most stupid movies I have seen.

IMDb Users in their infinite wisdom have given this title a poor rating. Why? Well seeing that it is actually a very decent movie, one would assume it is solely down to the lead, namely Ms. Lohan. Sit down, watch the movie and cast aside anything you may know about LL's personal life. The story is intriguing, the direction is superb; very atmospheric, and the performances within are sound. IKWKM is well worth a watch for these reasons alone. The story-line moves along at a steady pace and can seem rather confusing but perseverance will pay off. Like a lot of films of this genre the ending falls short from being truly satisfying and loses touch with reality. A little exposition would not have gone amiss. That said, there is adequate closure so the viewer should not feel cheated.

I Know Who Killed Me (2007): Dir: Chris Sivertson / Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Julia Ormond, Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty, Kenya Moore: Stylish thriller about physical and emotional evaporation, and evaporation is one word that can describe what happens to any hint of a screenplay. Lindsay Lohan survives being tortured yet believes she is someone other than that of her original identity. This all plays out rather clever until the third act where fingers and limbs are shown severed in full detail. Director Chris Sivertson seems obsessed with the colour blue for reasons unknown. This becomes distracting and pointless. Lohan has given superb performances in other films, and this being her first attempt at a horror film should have been a different role to tackle. Unfortunately she comes off as if she doesn't care, and the role is somewhat confusing especially given her behaviour after her abduction where in her traumatic state she believes she is a stripper. Neal McDonough, Brian Geraghty, and particularly Julia Ormond are wasted in flat supporting roles. McDonough and Ormond are Lohan's clueless parents. The villain is a complete moron because his motive are overwhelmingly stupid. It all comes down to a climax of blood, gore and mayhem topped with the highest forms of idiocy. It's not difficult to see who killed this film. All evidence points to the director. Score: 2 / 10