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Urban Legends: Final Cut
Sony / Columbia Pictures


3.8

based on 25 reviews
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Urban Legend

MPAA 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)

GENRE(S):	Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Silvio Horta (characters) Paul Harris Boardman Scott Derrickson
DIRECTED BY:	John Ottman
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: February 6, 2001 Video: February 6, 2001 Theatrical: September 22, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	98 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA / Canada

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."

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Has slick production credits and performances that are quite adequate given the (narrow) opportunities of the genre.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Has a dark, low-budget feel and an incongruous combination of self-consciously jokey patter and gross-out gore.

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Stack

Schlock, but amusing schlock.

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.

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.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Preposterous plotting and interchangeable young actors.

Miami Herald Sara Wildberger

Sophomoric.

LA Weekly Paul Malcolm

Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation.

Film.com Gemma Files

Basically a dressed-up piece of drivel, a self-referential pseudo-thriller with pretensions to pretensions of classic Hollywood suspense.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

Doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.

Salon.com Mary Elizabeth Williams

Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing.

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.

Los Angeles Times David Chute

Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Simply a lousy film from start to finish.

Village Voice Nick Rutigliano

Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers.

Chicago Tribune John Petrakis

It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Just plain bad.

Variety Robert Koehler

A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it.

Film.com John Hartl

If you've seen one "Scream" rip-off, you really have seen them all.

Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark

As for genuine willies, well, chances are you've had more disturbing encounters with, say, a belligerent Shih Tzu.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.

Entertainment Weekly Ty Burr

Debased swill.

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!

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Urban Legends: Final Cut Sony / Columbia Pictures

Urban Legends: Final Cut
Sony / Columbia Pictures