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Urban Legend/Urban Legends - Final Cut 2-pack

Urban Legend/Urban Legends - Final Cut 2-pack

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Urban Legends 2: Possibly the worst movie EVER
Review: It takes a lot to go from being just bad to being painfully inept to the point where you contemplate suicide watching the multi-level banality. Urban Legends: Final Cut made that jump. I can't remember seeing something this poorly directed, acted, written, edited, and just about every other department, in a long while.

Why do all the students at the "best film school ever!" want to make horrible teenie slasher films? Did they sit in their basements dreaming of the day they too could create Scream? My God, the idealistic youth of America just wants to make fake blooded dreck! And why then, the chosen few of the best and brightest for the "best film school ever!" are so BAD at making movies? I'll give this, the girl does draw nice storyboards but then she should have gone to art school and not "the best film school ever!"

And everyone looks like they stepped off a magazine cover including the obligatory cute lesbian, sans Joey Lawerance. You should know trouble's afoot when a Lawerance makes his way into a movie. The acting is phenomenally bad with this cast of characters that are more inclined to be found on the back of a milk carton than deliver a good line or carry a joke well.

This movie just goes from bad to horrible the longer it goes. Yes yes, it's a slasher film you're supposed to have fun with. But what fun is it watching crap you and your friends could make better and funnier in your backyard with your dad's camcorder?

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Confusing and not as good as the first
Review: Normally, everyone hates sequels. I'm one of these people who enjoy sequels, no matter what. I like the Terminator sequel and the Scream trilogy etc. Halfway through watching this, my friend phoned, and told me off for buying it when I could have borrowed it from him, but he said he preferred the sequel to the original. After watching this film right through, I had to disagree with him (sorry!) I got too confused with it too often, when they showed the relatively scary bits as the movie the students were filming. The ending totally confused me, as it made me think was it all real, or all a "movie". I couldn't identify the people, as they weren't well enough introduced, and when I was TRYING to persuade my friend to tell me who the killer was, and he said he was in Die Hard (great, unless you haven't seen Die Hard!). All the guys looked too similar, and I still don't know which one was the killer. And for any Neighbours fans - how much does Jennifer Morrison look like Michelle Scully?! Scary!
Overall ... Sorry, I preferred the original. The first few minutes reminded me of the start of Final Destination (with the plane and mainly, the oxygen masks coming down). Not a film would particularly want to watch again, although I probably would. The extras were pretty good, especially the gag reel!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Typical teen horror, I've seen better.
Review: Nothing really new or exciting here. For a far better Urban Legend story with real suspense and horror see Clive Barker's "Candyman". For a better teen horror movie, see "Jeepers Creepers" or the first "Scream".

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Mmmm... NO
Review: Okay. Let's look at this from two angles. As a MOVIE and as a DVD.

Well, the general feeling is correct. This was a terrible TERRIBLE movie. The budget was good -- and "Trevor" is hot enough to droooool over, but that's about all the movie is good for. Not only does it rip off the ideas responsible for SCREAM, but the camera work is lazy and the attack scenes are cheesy. I mean, SLOW MOTION tacky. What can you expect from a first time director. For those expecting a follow-up to the first part, don't hold your breath. Hollywood hasn't quite learned that sequels don't do well when you write a movie about something DIFFERENT and slap the same name on it.

That said, as a DVD I was disappointed. Though there are a LOT of deleted scenes and a boring blooper reel, the menu looks like it was whipped up by a child and.... I was THOROUGHLY ANGERED by the fact that a scene was missing altogether. After seeing UL2 in the theatres, I was ecstatic at a scene in which Reese (the security guard portrayed by Loretta Divine) is acting out a scene from COFFY as it plays on her monitors. I went out and bought all of PAM GRIER'S movies afterwards. And yet... WHERE IS THIS SCENE ON THE DVD??? It's gone. Wiped from existence.

If you're a faithful slasher/horror buff like me, you'll buy it. But it doesn't mean you have to like it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: arguably the best horror series
Review: these movies are pretty good. i can't wait for ul3 if they're going to make a third one. they obviously need to.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: More ..... horror...
Review: These movies are terrible. No suspense, no scares, no surprises, bad plot, poor acting, terrible story, but a cool looking killer. I garantee you'll figure it out WAY before the movies end. I though I had seen the worse, but this? This is just terrible. I can't recommend this to anyone, unless you want to laugh at a film, there is really no point in seeing it. It's a waste of time, life, and money. Don't even watch it on cable!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Good Film!!!!
Review: Urban Legend 2 is the best film I've seen for a while.I'm a big fan of Slasher films and Scream 3 and Urban Legend 2 definatly take first slot.I just love it!And the ending was such a surprise!Roll on Urban Legend 3!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: These two go together like spaghetti and meatballs
Review: Urban Legend: Awsome opening scene! this movie is clever, interesting and damn good. Urban Legends: Final Cut: Gory, detailed, amusing. I don't want this review to be long and boring so in three words Just Buy It!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Let's hope it is...
Review: Urban Legends was a sleeper horror hit- a story of a group of friends who are terrorised by some maniac out to get them using urban legends in the goriest style imaginable.

Urban Legends 2:Final Cut is a major embarrassment to it's predecessor. It seems to be a tie between Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer. This time round, producers are making a film on the Urban Legends murders that happened a couple of years ago. All the original cast of the first film have gone apart from the funny cop (Loretta Devine)

A new set of urban legends start from a new killer and prove to be more gorier than the first. This time, the killer is preying on the cast of the Urban Legends film.
Urban Legends 2 is another guessing game which misses it's predecessors winning elements- unpredictabliity, good acting, scariness and less gore.

Despite the poor quality of the sequel, watch out for a comic ending in the very last minute of the film. You'll be very surprised and amused. You'll know what I mean!


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