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Urban Legends: Final Cut
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Overwhelming dislike
Based on 25 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 7 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Silvio Horta (characters)
Paul Harris Boardman
Scott Derrickson
Directed by: John Ottman
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 22, 2000
DVD: February 6, 2001
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Canada
Summary
RATING: R for violence/gore, language and some sexuality
Starring Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Joey Lawrence, and Anson Mount
Amy (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)
Also On Metacritic
FILM: Urban Legend
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
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."
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Has slick production credits and performances that are quite adequate given the (narrow) opportunities of the genre.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Has a dark, low-budget feel and an incongruous combination of self-consciously jokey patter and gross-out gore.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Although it's recycled from start to finish, there are some decent jokes laced throughout, plus enough gore to satisfy the most bloodthirsty tastes.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
You cease to care as they fall back on a catalogue of clichéd shocks, tired camera angles and an ever-mounting gore quotient.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Preposterous plotting and interchangeable young actors.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.
Read Full Review >Film.com Gemma Files
Basically a dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams
Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dave Kehr
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.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times David Chute
Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Rutigliano
Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune John Petrakis
It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.
Read Full Review >Film.com John Hartl
If you've seen one "Scream" rip-off, you really have seen them all.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
As for genuine willies, well, chances are you've had more disturbing encounters with, say, a belligerent Shih Tzu.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Alli B gave it a10:
One of the scariest movies I've ever seen with a great plot and scarily convincing death scenes!
Elizabeth P gave it a0:
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!!!!!
Andrew M. gave it a 2:
Close to the worst film I have seen. I agree with most of the critics who rightly say this is rubbish. Only gets a point or two for the couple of mildly genuine scares it delivers but really, don't bother wasting your time watching it. Ohh, and other than being really bad it's really boring too!
