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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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Geoff Andrew

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 24 2006 03:57 AM

Time Out

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2/5

Sarah Hall

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?).

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 30 2002 08:39 AM

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Rich Cline

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 10 2001 06:25 PM

Shadows on the Wall

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1/5

Michael Thomson

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 16 2001 11:48 AM

BBC

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0.5/4

Ian Waldron-Mantgani

It's a tortuously rambling attempt at a slasher pic, throwing random scenes at us without purpose, reason or consequence.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 07 2001 01:05 PM

UK Critic

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2/5

So predictable that it's completely shock free.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 01 2000 12:00 AM

Empire Magazine

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Gerry Gallo

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Hollywood.com

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1/5

Mark Halverson

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Aug., 07 2008 03:16 AM

Sacramento News & Review

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Steve Biodrowski

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 22 2008 02:40 PM

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Robert Koehler

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jun., 06 2008 03:15 AM

Variety

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2/4

Susan Stark

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 10 2007 05:49 AM

Detroit News

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Lisa Alspector

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jan., 08 2007 03:40 PM

Chicago Reader

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Frank Swietek

It's even worse than its predecessor.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 24 2006 03:17 AM

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2005 07:56 PM

Boston Phoenix

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Bruce Westbrook

What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 21 2005 03:48 AM

Houston Chronicle

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1.5/4

Joe Mader

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 14 2003 05:21 PM

Palo Alto Weekly

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1/4

Liam Lacey

Impossible to follow.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 25 2003 08:19 AM

Globe and Mail

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0/5

Brian Mckay

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 19 2003 09:09 PM

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John R. McEwen

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: | comment Comment | Feb., 08 2003 08:41 AM

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Chris Gore

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 08 2002 08:52 AM

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