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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

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Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 79
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 72

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

Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 19

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

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Tall tales turn into chilling reality in this sequel to the 1998 horror hit Urban Legend. Amy Mayfield (Jenny Morrison) is a film student at Alpine University who for her thesis project (which will also be her entry to a prestigious competition for young directors) has decided to make a horror film about urban legends that suddenly and disturbingly come true. However, as Amy and her student cast and crew begin filming staged murders for the project, members of her team begin dying for real, and

R, 1 hr. 38 min.

Horror

Directed By: John Ottman

Written By: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson

In Theaters: Sep 22, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Jun 26, 2001

Box Office:$21.0M

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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

January 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

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What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment.

July 21, 2005 Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle

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Bruce Westbrook

Houston Chronicle

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Impossible to follow.

April 25, 2003 Full Review Source: Globe and Mail

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Liam Lacey

Globe and Mail

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Mr. Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Dave Kehr

New York Times

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It delivers bald-faced variations on devices that were originally deployed, albeit with a redeeming glint of irony, in the Scream films and in Scary Movie.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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David Chute

Los Angeles Times

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There's nothing here that the Scream movies didn't do first and better.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

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Don't waste your time.

January 1, 2011 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Beth Pratt

Common Sense Media

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

July 22, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter

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Steve Biodrowski

ESplatter

It's even worse than its predecessor.

July 24, 2006 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

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

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

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

May 14, 2003 Comment

Joe Mader

Palo Alto Weekly

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

March 19, 2003 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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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.

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

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

December 8, 2002 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Chris Gore

Film Threat

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?).

October 30, 2002 Full Review Source: ViewLondon

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Sarah Hall

ViewLondon

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

October 15, 2002 Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer

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Margaret A. McGurk

Cincinnati Enquirer

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.

December 10, 2001 Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall

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Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

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Sequel to Urban Legends is just as bad as the original. What is it with these films? These films are cool for the first two years they're released, and after that, people realize how bad these films were. In the case of Urban Legends: Final Cut, you have a film that is very poorly made, acted, directed with a paper

August 20, 2011