I am just going to start off by saying that my expectations shouldn't have been as high as they were. When I was in high school, Freddie Prinze Jr. Was a top billed celebrity that ruled the teen movies. I often times forget that people that were super famous when I was younger are no longer at the height of their career, and in many cases, hardly even known. So, when I saw this movie with Freddie Prinze Jr, I knew it was most likely lower budget due to me not hearing about, but I still thought it was going to be a worth while independent movie. And what I got was something that could be technically defined as a movie.
I'm not going to go too deep into the plot or anything like that. But, there really isn't anything to dive deep into. Freddie Prinze Jr has to navigate a surprise birthday party while his freshly dead mistress is stuffed into a storage container. From there, he is just manically roaming around the party trying to figure out who killed her, while hoping that no one finds the body. He never asks anyone any hard questions to try and trip them up to discover who killed her. He just keeps asking people what time they got to the party. Somehow they got Kevin Pollak to sign on to this movie, and they use him to periodically pop in to tell Freddie Prinze Jr that he doesn't like him. Freddie Prinze Jr, in turn, is constantly paranoid about who drove Kevin Pollak to the party, even though he gets that answer very early into the movie.
This was not the worst movie I have ever seen. I mean, it has Freddie Prinze Jr, Kevin Pollak and Monica Potter in it, so the acting is well enough to keep you entertained. But the plot itself just seems to ramble on a little. After the third time Freddie Prinze Jr asked someone how Kevin Pollak got to the party, I started spacing out. The ending was abrupt but ok. They tried to make it meaningful.
I'm not saying to not watch this movie. I am just saying that you really have to set those expectations lower, especially if you grew up in the "She's All That" era. This would have probably been a better play than movie.
