Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're supposed to hate this because the left is boycotting it for.... reasons that make no real sense, but that's sort of the drill isn't it? If it ain't woke, review bomb it.
And, to some extent the hate is a bit justified, it's not much better than Scream 3, but it's not as bad as Scream VI which, let's be honest, was yet another political lecture pretending to be entertainment. And that lack of politics in 7, that is probably the cause of the hate and the boycott.
And it being about as good as Scream 3, well, when Scream 3 came out it SUCKED. But it's 2026, and in 2026 a movie like that is actually pretty pretty good in comparison to the absolute preachy lecturing gutter trash that has been nearly every movie for the past decade in a half.
So what do you get? A pretty basic by the numbers horror movie with a twist you see coming like most every other pretty basic by the numbers horror movie. But you just get a horror movie, and it's just made to entertain. And in the era of politically partisan shreiking in absolutely everything, that is sort of a breath of fresh air.