Urban Legends - Final Cut

Rating:
Summary: Far better than the origional
Review: I felt that the origional Urban Legends was a decent teen slasher film but it did not come close to Scream or IKWYDLS. Urban Legends 2: Final Cut is a whole nother story though. If you dont like gore and the "who done it" plot of the previously mentioned films than don't get this movie. UL2 Borrows quite a bit from Scream 3 in the fact that is a movie within a movie about the first movie (did I lose you there?). Final Cut stands on its own though and it is a rare sequel that does not force you to watch the first film. In fact the first UL and the sequel have little in common at all besides dead teenagers. My only complaint is that the ending was a little weak. Those of you who have seen Screem 2 and 3 will note that when the killer(s) were finally revealed it was kinda contrived. UL2 is the same for me. I found myself going "come on, its THAT GUY?". But weak ending and all I really enjoyed this movie. Buy it if you like blood, hot girls and being scared.

Rating:
Summary: Very Much Under-Rated
Review: I don't see why "critics" have given this movie such poor reviews, or why it flopped at the theaters. Urban Legends : Final Cut, to me, was a very good suspense thriller. Although the only connection it has with the original Urban Legend is the security cop Reese (who is hilarious), the movie lives up to be better than the first. Of course, there isn't much originality (It's got to be hard to think of something new after all these teen horrors have been released), but the acting is well done, and the effects aren't the worse in town. Jennifer Morris was awesome as struggling film student Amy. All the other cast members looked as if they really knew where their characters were coming from, and dove right into them. I also liked the way the whole Hitchcockian theme was used. Especially the cute little diddy that happened at the end of the movie. As for the DVD itself, picture and sound quality is excellent, and there is a great amount of supplements (inc. 9 deleted scenes, audio commentary, gag reel, ec.) found on the DVD. Even though some people think it is entirely stupid to recommend this movie, I do recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Not good
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Far From a Legendary Movie
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Solid slasher, wrong series?
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: Very Much Under-Rated
Review: I don't see why "critics" have given this movie such poor reviews, or why it flopped at the theaters. Urban Legends : Final Cut, to me, was a very good suspense thriller. Although the only connection it has with the original Urban Legend is the security cop Reese (who is hilarious), the movie lives up to be better than the first. Of course, there isn't much originality (It's got to be hard to think of something new after all these teen horrors have been released), but the acting is well done, and the effects aren't the worse in town. Jennifer Morris was awesome as struggling film student Amy. All the other cast members looked as if they really knew where their characters were coming from, and dove right into them. I also liked the way the whole Hitchcockian theme was used. Especially the cute little diddy that happened at the end of the movie. As for the DVD itself, picture and sound quality is excellent, and there is a great amount of supplements (inc. 9 deleted scenes, audio commentary, gag reel, ec.) found on the DVD. Even though some people think it is entirely stupid to recommend this movie, I do recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Lackluster Sequel
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: What the HELL?
Review: 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".

Rating:
Summary: Far From a Legendary Movie
Review: 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.

Rating:
Summary: not bad....
Review: 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.