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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

Box Office: $8,505,513

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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Just stay away from this piece of junk. You'll be glad you did.

Full Review Source: Greenwich Village Gazette | comment Comment
01/01/00
Eric Lurio
Eric Lurio
Greenwich Village Gazette

Urban Legends: Final Cut will not win the story's coveted Hitchcock award, since all the scares are made up of sudden surprises without suspense, and there's nothing special about the production quality, either.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
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Eric Monder
Eric Monder
Film Journal International

Here's a movie that represents precisely what Washington says is wrong with Hollywood.

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Gary Thompson
Gary Thompson
Philadelphia Daily News

A dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.

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Gemma Files
Gemma Files
Film.com
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Resoundingly awful.

Full Review Source: Orlando Weekly | comment Comment
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George Meyer
George Meyer
Orlando Weekly

By the time the plot unfolds most will want to flee the theater.

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George Thomas
George Thomas
Beacon Journal

The narrative line ... is so hackneyed, so stale, that even the junior high school kids who were admitted to a special advance screening of this R-rated movie ... appeared burned out.

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Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

The script for Urban Legends: Final Cut was the best of 30 different takes from different combinations of writers. That's far scarier than anything in the movie.

Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
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Jack Garner
Jack Garner
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

How Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis keep straight faces through it all is beyond me.

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Jay Carr
Jay Carr
Boston Globe
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It's sad to think that any audiences would be desperate enough to seek out something as formulaic as this waste of celluloid.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
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Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Poorly conceived and executed in nearly every realm of filmmaking.

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Jim Judy
Jim Judy
Screen It!

One of the stupidest movies of the year. That's right, people. Stupid ... just plain dumb!

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JoBlo
JoBlo
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If you've seen one Scream rip-off, you really have seen them all.

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John Hartl
John Hartl
Seattle Times

As the body count continues to grow, along with the inevitable clues as to who the killer really is, it's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.

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John Petrakis
John Petrakis
Chicago Tribune
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You've already seen the exact same thing in Scream 2 and Scream 3.

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Jon Popick
Jon Popick
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It's several, uh, cuts below its predecessors, as well as the modest hit from 1998 it purports to be a sequel to.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
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Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Resolved: Film students are annoying in person and insufferable in movies.

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Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The horror film as a genre has but one caveat -- never bore the audience -- and this sequel to the 1998 semi-hit slasher flick ignores that rule to its own peril.

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Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle

They should have called this movie 'I know what Errol Flynn did last Summer.'

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Mark Ramsey
Mark Ramsey
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It's predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.

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Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mary Elizabeth Williams
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