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Urban Legends: Final Cut

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

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Reviews Counted:77

Fresh:7

Rotten:70

Average Rating:3.1/10

Consensus: This teen horror movie brings nothing new to an already exhausted genre. And it's bad. Really bad.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: At the prestigious Orson Welles Film School at Alpine University, students are preparing their submissions for the Hitchcock Award, an honor that virtually guarantees the winner a Hollywood career.... At the prestigious Orson Welles Film School at Alpine University, students are preparing their submissions for the Hitchcock Award, an honor that virtually guarantees the winner a Hollywood career. Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison), daughter of a famous documentary director, decides to make a different kind of film: a thriller in which college students are killed in ways resembling various urban legends. Despite the backstabbing and jealousy of her fellow students, Amy begins to plan and cast her movie, with help from a pair of special effects geeks and a suave European cinematographer. As filming progresses, however, a series of unusual deaths occurs that the police dismiss as accidents. Is the killer a psychotic madman or a student hoping to eliminate the competition? Amy must struggle to learn the truth or else risk becoming another "accident" herself. This sequel to the 1998 horror hit URBAN LEGEND features a different cast (except for the return of security guard Reese) and an all-new take on the notion of urban legends coming true. UBBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT was directed by John Ottman, the composer and editor of such films as THE USUAL SUSPECTS, who supplies numerous clever touches and layers to the world of films-within-films. [More]

Starring: Jennifer Morrison, Matt Davis, Loretta Devine, Jessica Cauffiel

Starring: Jennifer Morrison, Matt Davis, Loretta Devine, Jessica Cauffiel, Hart Bochner, Michael Bacall, Joseph Lawrence, Anthony Anderson, Marco Hofschneider

Director: John Ottman

Director: John Ottman
Screenwriter: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
Producer: Gina Matthews, Neal H. Moritz, Richard Luke Rothschild
Composer: John Ottman

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This horror sequel opens with an out of control passenger plane, then plummets to intellectual ground zero.

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06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
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This is yet another scary film within a scary film concept (surely someone would have pointed out to director John Ottman that this has actually been done before?).

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10/30/02
Sarah Hall
Sarah Hall
ViewLondon

This is pleasantly much less insulting than most films in the genre ... and far more entertaining than it has any right to be after its dire predecessor.

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12/10/01
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

This new offering keeps the mediocrity alive as it unleashes yet more unsavoury nonsense.

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04/16/01
Michael Thomson
Michael Thomson
BBC
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It's a tortuously rambling attempt at a slasher pic, throwing random scenes at us without purpose, reason or consequence.

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02/07/01
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
UK Critic

So predictable that it's completely shock free.

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01/01/00
Empire Magazine
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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review

As in the original, the essential effectiveness of urban legends is subverted by the usual slasher movie conventions.

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07/22/08
Steve Biodrowski
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ESplatter
N/R

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06/06/08
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Susan Stark
Detroit News

This horror-and-suspense vehicle, which dabbles pointlessly in reflexivity, doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
01/08/07
Lisa Alspector
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader

It's even worse than its predecessor.

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07/24/06
Frank Swietek
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12/06/05
Boston Phoenix
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What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/21/05
Bruce Westbrook
Bruce Westbrook
Houston Chronicle

The young actors all look like blander versions of more famous people.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/14/03
Joe Mader
Joe Mader
Palo Alto Weekly

Impossible to follow.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/25/03
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail

The embodiment of all that is wrong with the horror genre today . . . avoid it like raw plutonium

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03/19/03
Brian Mckay
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com

Apart from one returning minor character and a few cursory references, there is no correlation between the two. Unless you want to count the fact that they're both really, really bad.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

Perhaps the most moronic horror film I've seen this year.

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12/08/02
Chris Gore
Chris Gore
Film Threat

By the time the facts are finally revealed, you just won't care.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
 
 
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