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Urban Legends: Final Cut

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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 76

Fresh: 7

Rotten:69

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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Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
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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N/R

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06/06/08
Robert Koehler
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Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
03/10/07
Susan Stark
Detroit News
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This horror-and-suspense vehicle, which dabbles pointlessly in reflexivity, doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.

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01/08/07
Lisa Alspector
Chicago Reader
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It's even worse than its predecessor.

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07/24/06
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

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
Time Out

What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment.

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

Impossible to follow.

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

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

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
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?).

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10/30/02
Sarah Hall
ViewLondon

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

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10/15/02
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.

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12/10/01
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Ottman and the cast have done a good job with a limited script and budget, but it's not worth rushing out to unless your a major fan of teen horror flicks.

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10/30/01
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

There are so many killings early on (remember, we've got three movie's worth of killings happening at once) that we have great difficulty settling in with a storyline.

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07/19/01
Brian Webster
Apollo Guide

Not what becomes a legend most.

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06/11/01
Peter Keough
Anchorage Press

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

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04/16/01
Michael Thomson
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