SummaryAmy (Morrison), Travis (Davis) and Graham (Lawrence) are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine University, a renowned film school where the competition is killer...and someone is killing the competition. (Columbia Tristar)
SummaryAmy (Morrison), Travis (Davis) and Graham (Lawrence) are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine University, a renowned film school where the competition is killer...and someone is killing the competition. (Columbia Tristar)
You're smarter than this, but occasionally it tricks you into thinking it might be up to something you haven't considered, like an above-average, extra-bloody episode of "Scooby Doo."
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.
Not as good as the first. Just an ok movie. Some of the kill scenes were pretty cool though. A director for a college is practicing with his students and filming a horror film in a amusement park type theme. That's when murders start happening.
While not being as bad as it's predecessor, Urban Legends: Final Cut is still a below average slasher flick. The acting was average at best, the twin aspect of the movie is silly and completely unnecessary, the movie tries so hard to establish one of the characters as the obvious killer, that it's obviously not him and the characters were so stupid that it became infuriating. At least the movie as a whole was quite entertaining.
A Scream clone that was set in Trent University. It's nothing more than a retread of other teen scare movies. Trent University was perhaps the most redeemable feature about the movie with its beautiful scenery and modern architecture.
After seeing the first "Urban Legends" movie, I wondered if it would be possible to do better, or even repeat the dose, without the second film being invariably disastrous. The answer is no.
In this film, Amy Mayfield, a young film student, has to make a short film as an end-of-course work. She decides to make a film in which a murderer kills his victims by recreating famous urban legends. Everything is going well until people really start to die, at the hands of a mysterious murderer.
Well, what we have here is the same recipe used in the first film. The difference is that, as we have already seen it, it does not surprise us. It's just another horror movie for teenagers, with a plot so weak that it's not even worth talking about it. It will shatter at the first pull as if it were a rotten rag. The cast is very weak, almost amateur. Jennifer Morrison, the lead actress, does nothing particularly good. She just does what has to be done. There are, however, some moments where it seems that the film makes some little veiled criticisms, but quickly leaves that aside. The ending is perhaps the best part of the film.
Despite being, in general, a frankly bad and forgettable film, it was a step forward in the career of many of those involved. Actresses like Eva Mendes, Matthew Davis or Jennifer Morrison had, shortly after, the opportunity to do more serious work: Mendes, for example, will have the opportunity to appear in "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" and Davis will cost to establish himself but, after years of small appearances, he will finally did it with "Vampire Diaries". Even the director, John Ottman, will discover that he is a terrible director but has a knack for other things in cinema, as music. So, I think this film fulfilled an objective and served a purpose, although perhaps many of those involved hide it on the bottom shelf of their filmography.