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Urban Legends: Final Cut

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not that much in my opinion.many people have given it a low rating,but i'm gonna buck the trend on this one.the only thing i can think of that might give this movie a lower rating than otherwise,is that the characters seem shallow and weaker written than the previous Urban Legend movie. i felt that at first.but somewhere along the line that feeling disappears.so maybe the characters change subtly yet in a short period of time.to me,this is a sign of good writing.the movie is not as original as its predecessor,but it is still compelling and engaging.besides,what looks like borrowing form other movies,to me,is an homage to those movie,a sort of nod of respect.and there is no blatant copying that i could see.i also think the movie is maybe a bit more creepy and eerie that the first one.like the first one,it is also unpredictable,with a slew of suspicious characters who all have compelling motives to be the killer.i didn't know for sure who the killer was.the only time you could eliminate a suspect is when they have been killed.i really enjoyed this movie.for me "Urban Legends:Final Cut" is a 4.65/5

this 1 was nowhere close to being as good and original than the original. it barely even uses any legends what so ever to kill someone. not scary not even funny. not a good example of a slasher film. hell i wouldnt even call it that. its more of a pathedic mystery rather than horror. the only thing thats good about this is the killers costume is cool and hot eva mendez is a lesbian in this. to bad she dies. hell shes not the only one. this whole movie looks as if it was picked up as road kill and then got some cheap thrills added into it. in my opinion it made it even worse. completely flat and dead.

Urban Legends 2 takes place at a film school in which people are being murdered. This film fails on many levels. First, the thing that made the first film unique (having people die according to urban legends) doesn't happen that often in the film. It's done a couple of times but then the film just resorts to standard slasher movie attacks. Second, there are weak plot points that pop up from the unbelievable "twin" of a suicide victim and the fact that no one seems to want to track down people who have vanished. (For example, the heroine sees someone being murdered on a surveillance camera but looses the video tape evidence after being pursued by the killer. One would think that the campus security guard after having lived through some murders before would at least try to track down the person supposedly killed or investigate the scene of the alleged crime. She doesn't do either. She doesn't even deem it necessary to call the police to investigate the heroine's claim of being chased.) There's no way to guess who the killer is since there are no clues dropped along the way. About the only perk is at the very end of the film which I won't reveal, but it hardly makes up for the previous 86 minutes

If you like urban legends or a fairly good horror film, get the first Urban Legends movie and leave this one alone.

If I had the choice of picking up a hard rock and bashing my head in, I would find the biggest boulder I could and bash away at my skull. I absolutely hated this movie, and I would give it zero stars if I could because that's exactly what it deserves. Some movies just don't need a sequel, and this movie is one of those films. Afterall, it's not like the first "Urban Legend" was Academy Award winning material, but I thought it was innovative at the time at least if nothing else. However, this sequel stinks, and hopefully they will be smart enough to go ahead and kill the franchise before it gets started. I would really hate to see an "Urban Legend 3 After the Final Cut".

Do we really need another teen-slasher flick after dozens of "Scream" copycapts produced in the mid-to-late-nineties?? If we do, they better be more interesting than this tepid and predictable cinematic experience. Apart from the mildly engaging beginning and a somewhat decent ending (the scene with the multiple guns in particular), "Urban Legends - Final Cut" is nothing more than a sequence of tired and unengaging cliches. The acting is wooden and souless (the lead actress is competent, though), the direction lacks punch and the plot offers few surprises. This movie is disposable, unconvincing and tries to seem smarter than it really is (with all those pseudo-intellectual cinematic references to make it clever and hip).

A waste of time.

The first urban legend was pretty good decent horror film but this sequal just sucks. The begining of the film is ok and you think it might be good but then as it gets further into the film it just gets worse and the ending is stupid. It leaves you saying is that it? It revolves around university students who are trying to get an acting award and all these deaths start occuring. It does keep you guessing until the end about who the killer is but the killer isnt even scary and wears a fencing mask and the story is lame/not well acted.I watched this 2 or 3 times and it dosent get better as you watch it gets worse every time. I wouldnt recomend this to anyone. Go watch the first one.

Solid slasher, wrong series?

This film was panned by many, yet for a genre film I think it's a lot better than the original Urban Legend.

A film school class are all competing for the prestigious Hitchcock Award, which is regarded as a golden key to Hollywood for the student who wins it. However, when the cast and crew of a coveted student film begin dying, and someone switches the film on the credits, it's clear that someone wants the award very, very badly.

Admittedly, the final payoff--the identity of the killer and his plan--doesn't make the most sense. (How would the killer honestly expect to get away with it?) However, a few elements made it very entertaining. One is the film within a film setup, and the numerous references to film. This is not the same thread that ran through the Scream series, though. The characters here are less aware of the conventions of the slasher film, and the murders are not always the typical " 'Are you there?' [splat!] " setup.

The only element, strangely enough, that the original Urban Legend has over The Final Cut is the urban legend piece itself. There aren't enough famous urban legends left to use in this one since many--the killer in the backseat, the killer calling from inside the house, the killer in the dark room--were used in the original. The Final Cut does have the 'waking up in a bathtub full of ice cubes to find your kidneys missing' one. That shows up here in a very bloody, demented, and tense scene early on. It was stylish and twisted, and a good slasher kill. Other than that, yes, people die, but not in 'urbgan legend' ways. Which is fine, because the body count is decent, and the killer sports a much snappier gettup than the original film's 'massive parka-clad slasher'. One kill in particular owes a lot to Peeping Tom, and it's a nice touch (the voyeur view kill) as the class watches what they think are the dailies from the protagonist's student horror film. It plays with the whole standard of seeing through the killer's eyes and the 'gaze' and power of sight afforded other characters.

There's also at least one electrocution, always welcome, and a man beaten with a camera lens, very self-reflexive.

The director is John Ottman, who is actually a composer, and he contributes a very capable score as well. (Some of his music was also featured in H20.) The only real link to the first film is through Reese Wilson, the school security guard from the original who finds herself at another college where the same old same old is happening. Hart Bochner returns to slasherdom (having been in the 1980 Terror Train) as a film prof.

The DVD is very good. We get a featurette, deleted scenes, trailers, and even a gag reel, which is amusing for a horror film and is a good touch (you watch flubbed takes and botched stunts.)

The film has a decent gore factor and a decent whodunit. It's stylish, and more than serviceable in the genre. Recommended.

After watching this for the first time I didn't like it. But after watching it again and paying attention to what's going on, I enjoyed this film. I keeps you guessing who the killer is. The first one is way better but this isn't that bad. I liked it. I rate it 3 stars because it isn't as good as the first. Still a good movie. Go rent it and see if YOU like it.

I saw the Urban Legend a couple of years ago, and I only just saw Urban Legends: Final Cut. I thought it was pretty good for a sequel, and you don't NEED to see the first one to get it, just like you don't NEED to see the second one if you've seen the first.
Basic plot line: A girl named Amy has decided to do her College Thesis Film on Urban Legends, after hte idea was planted in her head by security cop Reese, who was one of the survivors from the first, played by Loretta Devine.
After the school's star pupil Travis is found dead, everyone assumes it was suicide. But after Amy and her film crew see soemone else's film, which shows one of the actors in Amy's movie getting horribly stabbed, Amy begins to get a little worried. After seeing her Director of Photography die on CCTV, Amy realises that the movie she had seen was in fact a snuff movie, she and Travis' twin Trevor begin to investigate. Soon, more and more of the crew die and the movie comes to the end, where there is a chilling shot of UL2's killer in a Mental Institution, being pushed in a wheel-chair by the killer from Urban Legend, who of course, was still alive.
The music was excellent, acting average, and some of the dialogue just didn't sound like the language students at a College would use.
Overall, I recommend to see both Urban Legend and Urban Legends: Final Cut, and see which one you like better for yourself.

It may be trash but it isn't a rotten one. Score: 65/100