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Summary: Great Movie, Cheesy Ending
Review: The movie started out pretty cool but when it got to the end it got corny. There is no way anyone could survive through all that and still have the energy to try to kill them again 5 minutes later. It is a good movie but not to own it.
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Summary: One of the Better "Scream" Wannabe's.
Review: Sure, it rips off "Scream", we all get it, but it's still an Above Average Horror Flick. It has all the Modern Teen Slasher Ingredients. The Masked Killer, the Attractive "Up-and-Coming Cast, the Buckets of Blood, the Gallons of Gore; we get it all. Then, the Ending arrives and the Killer is Unmasked... and it all becomes Ridiculously Unbelievable. We are forced to Swallow the Killers motive, which is equally Unbelievable, but Thankfully, this ending doesn't detract from the Overall Enjoyment of the Film. The Performances are Fun; the only weak link in the Performance department is the star, Alicia Witt. She takes it all Far too Seriously, I know that she's probably not to Blame for that, but still, her performance is Dull, Bland and Uninteresting. The Deaths are Very Elaborate and Well Constructed. The Directing and Editing are Extremely well Polished, especially since it's a Debut Director. With a Screenplay Tweak and a more Realistic Ending, it would have ended up a 5 star film.
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Summary: DING! DING! DING! DING!
Review: Without a doubt the first 15 minutes of the movie were the best...there were some good parts in the middle but those were few and far between...and of course...the movie piles the cheesy moments on....like when two girls just witness a brutal murder and then begin to talk about the guy they both like.....get real...ok movie to rent on a rainy day...a really rainy day.
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Summary: Pretty cool!
Review: I remember the first time watching this, not expecting what to see. It's pretty cool actually. It seems that buying this was a big help. The way for me seeing the whole thing. And this is too good to miss out on. Actually, some parts were obvious on what would happen next. Not that it's bad, it's just fun when movies make it difficult and don't make you think. Probably the best thing about this movie is that it happened to be someone surprising on the one who killed all that girl's friends. I hope I haven't given that part away. Anyways, it's awesome. Don't miss out, watch it.
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Summary: AN AWSOME MOVIE
Review: THIS IS LIKE THE BEST SCARY MOVIE !EVER! IT IS SO SCARY AND IT IS REALLY HARD TO FIND OUT WHO THE KILLER IS BUT IT IS A SHOCK AND IT MADE ME JUST OUT OF MY SEAT LIKE 50,000,000 TIMES. I THINK IF YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES AT LEAST WATCH THIS MOVIE BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST AND IF YOU WATCH THIS ONE WATCH THE SECOND ON URBAN LEADGENDS:FINALE CUT!
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Summary: One of the best slasher films of the 90s
Review: I saw Urban Legend when it first came out, and have enjoyed watching it many times since its video release. This film is a cut above the usual 90s horror fare. The acting is high quality, don't listen to the naysayers below. I have seen hundreds of horror films, and any horror buff can tell you that must have really poor acting. This film is an exception. Jared Leto and Rebecca Gayheart really stand out, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE Lorraine Devine (she was also in Waiting to Exhale) she is the absolute bomb. Robert Englund has a fun cameo. The subject of urban legends came up in the landmark film "candyman" also, and I wonder if that film may have inspired this one. I thought the scares were genuine, the murders original, and the characters were ones you could empathize with. The film is fast paced, fun, and a must see.
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Summary: Good, clean and very original
Review: Urban Legend is a very good b horror film it may not have a great cast like Disturbing Behavior and its not scary like Scream but it's original there has never been a movie about urban legends and the cast is alright aside from the really annoying Tara Reid it's well liked and there is a few scars but nothing really . Urban Legends: B-
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Summary: Not what it aspires to be.
Review: You've heard of that one urban legend, right? You know, the one about the serial killer going on a murderous rampage on the anniversary of some massacre that occurred in the past? And the heroine always makes it through and never dies? And the killer will inevitably show up for another round of slice and dice so the studio can make lots more money? Come on, I know you've heard that one before; if you live in America, it's hard not to know it. To be quite honest, I wanted to like "Urban Legend." I wanted to be surprised by it, like I was genuinely surprised the first time I saw "Scream" (the first, not the next 8,000). It looked like it had a very original storyline with likeable characters and a little bit of blood and gore mixed in for good measure. Instead, I found myself sneering at every little trick and cliche that came up, and trust me on this: this movie is FULL of cliches. Practically everything you've ever seen done in any other horror movie is done in this one; they just use the difference in plot as an excuse to make it seem fresh and kosher. And all those tired old horror habits tend to rag a movie down nowadays. The so-called suspense all begins when a girl, typical college groupie, is driving in her sport utility vehicle on a dark and stormy road on a, no surprise here, rainy night. She stops at a gas station when she runs out of gas, and soon she thinks she is going to be killed by the gas station attendant, who has the patented deranged psycho man look to him. When he tries to warn her that someone is in the back of her car, she runs away. Now tell me something (and I'm sure I'll be getting a lot of email on this one): if someone from a gas station were to take you inside the garage and lock you in it, and the phone were dead, would you not think he was going to kill you there? But, so the plot goes, and soon, our little girl is dead in her car, the victim of a killer in her backseat. Jump ahead a couple of hours to Pendelton University, where kids lead happy, carefree lives, the janitors all look creepy and suspicious, right away, we're introduced to all the little college groupies that will fall victim to the bloodshed. There's Natalie, who is innocent and sweet, and seems to be more affected by the murder of the girl than anyone else. And Brenda, who wants nothing more than to be there for her friend, unless she's chasing after the journalist, Paul, who is harshly punished by the dean for running a story on the murder. Of course, the dean is only following the typical 90's horror cliche of not giving a damn about his students in order to keep the story moving; nothing wrong in doing that. And so, all the bodies start piling up, with your average of three or four people actually managing to steer clear of the killer's grasp. They begin finding clues, like anyone in any other movie does, and once they put the pieces together, there's a whole different puzzle they have to solve over again. Not at all confusing, though; this is a teen/college kid splatter flick, so it needs to be on a strictly juvenile level. There is an unbelievable amount of cliche throughout the movie. So many times throughout I kept thinking over and over in my head the different scenes and storylines from the Scream movies, but at least in those movies the people in charge actually did something about the possibility of danger instead of waiting for more bodies to drop. I know they had to borrow some lines of dialogue; it all just seemed way to copycat to me, which is not a good thing. This movie really did have some potential at being fresh and new, but for me, it just didn't live up to that potential. Yet, despite all of this rif-raf in the beginning and middle, the ending seemed to be the only redeeming feature. I don't want to give away any of the twists and turns it takes (even if there are only one or two), but there does seem to be a bit of originality in it. To keep it mild, listen in for the killer's motive, and more importantly, who the killer turns out to be and what becomes of them at the very tail end of the film. And this is going to sound even crazier, but I'll probably end up seeing the sequel, "Urban Legends," just to see if they can think of anything different for that one. If you see the first one, you'll understand why I say that, because the ending leaves for so many goodies; I just hope that they will be realized. This movie is not that bad, but it's not that good, either. Reserved for those who have never seen a horror movie in their life, and want to make that first big jump into the world of Rated-R.
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Summary: Horrible....please save your money for something else
Review: If there was a rating of no/negative stars this film definately desreves it. The slasher movie genre has returned and like it's hey day in the late 70's and mid 80's it's grtting tiring. The plot has the depth of a cheap porno with a cast of nobodys and never will be.
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Summary: great movie
Review: First was Scream, then I Know What You Did Last Summer, then Halloween: H20, followed by The Faculty, and now...Urban Legend. Sporting a cool cast and actual scariness and plot, Urban Legend is a great movie, not as good as Scream but better then I Still Know and other lesser horror flicks.
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