Urban Legends: Final Cut

Pros: It's relatively short
Cons: A whole bunch of things--read the review

Urban Legends: Final Cut: Phoenix Films/ Columbia Pictures
Rating: USA: R/ UK: 15/ Australia: MA

After the wildly unexpected box-office success of Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s Scream, horror was once again...

Pros: One cool (and messy) decapitation
Cons: The fact that people would want to make a movie like this...

The urban legend known as the LAME horror sequel strikes again; this time in the form of a not-so-hot thriller titled (how delicious), Urban Legends: Final Cut. This sequel reeks of such ineptitude that it makes this cynical critic (otherwise...

Pros: it didn't last 99 minutes
Cons: 98 minutes of drivel -- stupid plot, awful acting, horrible script

I’m sure you’ve heard the story about the car that was found smoldering on the side of a mountain, 300 feet above the lonely Arizona Interstate Highway. A tired Highway Patrol officer discovered the charred remains of something, and called the...

Pros: The biggest "name" actor in the film is Joey Lawrence.
Cons: The biggest "name" actor in the film is Joey Lawrence.

Ahoy there be SPOILERS ahead!! This was actually a very clever movie, at least in my opinion. I remember seeing the first Urban Legends movie years ago, but had never seen this one. This is the type of movie that is in the same vein as the "Scream" ...

Pros: Not a clone of the first movie. Surprise ending was nice.
Cons: Reason given for murders was weak!

We've all heard urban legends. Remember that e-mail that was going around about the college students being drugged and waking up in a tub of ice with internal organs removed? Or, how about the one about the girl who would hold her hand down from her bed...

Pros: a couple interesting scenes; Morrison was cute
Cons: everything else

Rated R

(violence and gore, language, and some sexuality)

Amy Mayfield: Jennifer Morrison
Graham Manning: Joey Lawrence

my rating: D

It’s another day in the teen “horror” world. Hot girls running...

Pros: cannot think of any
Cons: i think i sumed up all the cons

Ok you read the title please follow my warning. Do not give this movie 2 hours of your life to waste. I saw this movie tonight I actually went to the manager and asked for my money back because this movie was that bad. (They said it had to be within the...

Pros: Cretins will kinda like it.
Cons: Less fun that tearing your own toenails out.

Dear Hollywood,

This is an open letter, on behalf of all cinemagoers everywhere, in reference to the film “Urban Legends: Final Cut”, the sequel to the just-about-passable 1999 slasher “Urban Legends”. Pay attention, there are lessons to be...

Pros: Two scenes are absolutely hilarious / Better Than the Original
Cons: The Original is one of the worst films of the last three years

We have reached a collective point of Alzheimer’s in this country. Or so most of the advertisers and filmmakers think of us. A long-standing point in Hollywood dictates that the shorter a title, the easier it is for the public to remember and say when...

Pros: Has an interesting concept, some of the murders are gruesomely entertaining.
Cons: Lack of suspense, atmosphere, or any characters you'll care about.

URBAN LEGENDS: FINAL CUT


You really have to go into watching a sequel to any movie, horror or otherwise, with not just a grain, but a pillar of salt. Let’s look at it from the marketing point of view: you have access to a familiar name,...

Pros: Lots of rubber breasts, if you like that sort of thing.
Cons: Joseph Lawrence speaks!

Frankly, this movie blew. Hard. Since the original "Urban Legends" wasn't exactly breaking new ground, and sequels are typically diminuitive in plot to their predecessors, I wasn't really giving this movie much of a chance.

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Pros: Err, well...it's not overly long
Cons: Pedestrian in almost every possible way

I saw the first Urban Legend, and thought I'd give the sequel (well, of sorts) a try. I picked up the DVD along with several other films to watch this week, and all I can say is that I hope the other films I rented are better than this one. I actually...

Pros: An attractive cast
Cons: What are attractive people doing in film school?

The absent piece of biographical info in John Ottman's "talent file" on Columbia Tri-Star's DVD release of his directorial debut, Urban Legends: Final Cut, is that the USC vet actually attended film school in a fairy tale world of unlimited resources....

Pros: Decent work by lead Jennifer Morrison; some nice touches by director/composer/editor John Ottman.
Cons: Will the predictable slasher madness ever end?

The original Urban Legend grossed only $38 million at U.S. theatres in the fall of 1998, but given how cheaply (in every conceivable meaning of the word) that horror flick was produced, a profit was inevitable--and, of course, a sequel....

Pros: John Ottman does a fine job editing, directing, and scoring the film.
Cons: But Ottman's fine work cannot save a bad script.

I would have laughed in your face if you had told me back in 1998 that two years later I would go see a sequel to Urban Legend -- and actually look forward to it. No, I did not think that the original was anything to speak of, but once I found out who...