Urban Legends: Final Cut
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16 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 21 out of 25
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Although it's recycled from start to finish, there are some decent jokes laced throughout, plus enough gore to satisfy the most bloodthirsty tastes.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    You cease to care as they fall back on a catalogue of clichéd shocks, tired camera angles and an ever-mounting gore quotient.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Jay Carr
    38
    Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.
  4. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Preposterous plotting and interchangeable young actors.
  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    25
    Sophomoric.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    20
    Simply a lousy film from start to finish.
  7. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Mary Elizabeth Williams
    20
    Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.
  8. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    20
    Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
  9. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Nick Rutigliano
    20
    Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers.
  10. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Gemma Files
    20
    Basically a dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.
  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: David Chute
    20
    Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    20
    Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion, nor the sense of humor necessary to turn the deliberate clichés into effective satire.
  13. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    20
    Doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.
  14. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Petrakis
    12
    It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.
  15. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    12
    Just plain bad.
  16. Film.com
    Reviewed by: John Hartl
    10
    If you've seen one "Scream" rip-off, you really have seen them all.
  17. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    10
    A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.
  18. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    10
    The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.
  19. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Cody Clark
    5
    As for genuine willies, well, chances are you've had more disturbing encounters with, say, a belligerent Shih Tzu.
  20. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    0
    Debased swill.
  21. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    0
    No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.

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4.4 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. Rikiege
    9
    A great sequel that features comedy and terror.
  2. AlliB
    10
    One of the scariest movies I've ever seen with a great plot and scarily convincing death scenes!
  3. ElizabethP
    0
    Who decided that EVERY IDIOT gets to produce a movie? It's so GOD AWFUL and cliched!!!!! I wanted to cry and gouge out my own eyes after seeing THE WORST piece of crap in the world!!!!!!!!! Forget lethal injection or life imprisonment, make murderers watch this movie!!!!!… Full Review »
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