Just stay away from this piece of junk. You'll be glad you did.
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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Reviews for Urban Legends: Final Cut
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.
Here's a movie that represents precisely what Washington says is wrong with Hollywood.
A dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.
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.
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.
How Jennifer Morrison and Matthew Davis keep straight faces through it all is beyond me.
It's sad to think that any audiences would be desperate enough to seek out something as formulaic as this waste of celluloid.
One of the stupidest movies of the year. That's right, people. Stupid ... just plain dumb!
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.
It's several, uh, cuts below its predecessors, as well as the modest hit from 1998 it purports to be a sequel to.
Resolved: Film students are annoying in person and insufferable in movies.
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.
They should have called this movie 'I know what Errol Flynn did last Summer.'
It's predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.
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