Review – Valentine

The budget is just about all that saves this from being yet another low budget slasher movie. The production’s slick, and the cast is probably priced somewhere in the middle of the star salary range (Denise Richards is the biggest name in the credits). Otherwise, however, it’s the same ol’ same ol’ guy with a mask (a goofy-looking cupid mask in keeping with the Valentine theme) and a big carving knife. This time around the deranged nut seeks revenge on the junior high crushes who spurned his affection. And as per the well-established formula, the cast of unsympathetic characters gets gradually whittled down until the list of suspects grows so short that they have to do something obvious or something ridiculous (for the sake of what little surprise you might get from the end, I won’t say which). I guess I’ve seen worse slasher movies, but that’s not much of an endorsement; I’ve seen a lot of bad slasher movies. See if desperate