Urban Legends - Final Cut
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Movie Reviews of Urban Legends - Final Cut
Movie Review: Easily On Par with the Original (but has a Better Ending).
Summary: 4 Stars
After the Barrage of Awful reviews that followed this Sequel like a bad smell, I skipped seeing it at the Cinema and waited for video. I took a big chance and bought this DVD without even seeing the film.. And the Gamble paid off well. The film is Great and the DVD is Wonderful. Deleted Scenes, Gag Reel, Director's Commentary, Making Of; we get a lot of good extras.
Like the original, "Urban Legends, Final Cut" gives us all the Teen Slasher Ingredients, and in Perfect Doses. Some of the Acting may be below average, but the star, Jennifer Morrison gives a Sympathetic, Likeable performance. Anthony Anderson gets the Silver Medal playing (you guessed it) the Comic Relief. The Death Scenes, one in particular, are Inspired. Gore Hounds Rejoice. Being that it's a "Film within a Film" scenario, there is a lot of potential for False Scares and clever kills, and the director never misses a chance to use them. The Ending is the one thing that stands Head and Shoulders over the original. This one is actually believable and the Unmasking of the killer is Cleverly Built up and Worked Out.
But Is it Better than the original? On a Whole, I would say it's a Dead Tie. I couldn't pick if my life depended on it. They're both Flawed Fun for all Horror fans. See them both and make up your own mind.
Movie Review: Pretty good slasher sequel
Summary: 4 Stars
Urban Legends 2 - Final Cut is about a group of students at a film college who are competing for an award called The Shakespear Award which will pretty much guarantee them a place in Hollywood with their movie. The main charactor is played by Jennifer Morrison (STIR OF ECHOS) and she has an idea of making a horror movie about a serial killer who's murders are based on Urban Legends . . . but someone is killing off her cast and crew. In this movie nobody is safe and everybody is a suspect. This is an above average slasher movie with a reasonably good cast. The only problem I had with this movie was that, with the exception of the first death (which was also the best and the only gory in one in the movie), I hadn't actually heard of any of the "urban legends" before. This didnt't really spoil the movie but I just thought I'd warn people in case you were dissapointed by this. As well as horror this movie also managed some humour which I usually like in a horror movie. The DVD has: >Directors Commentary >Making-of and Behind-the-Scenes Featurette >Theatrical Trailer >Deleted Scenes Overall an enjoyable movie which I recommend for fans of horror.Movie Review: Very Much Under-Rated
Summary: 4 Stars
I don't see why "critics" have given this movie such poor reviews, or why it flopped at the theaters. Urban Legends : Final Cut, to me, was a very good suspense thriller. Although the only connection it has with the original Urban Legend is the security cop Reese (who is hilarious), the movie lives up to be better than the first. Of course, there isn't much originality (It's got to be hard to think of something new after all these teen horrors have been released), but the acting is well done, and the effects aren't the worse in town. Jennifer Morris was awesome as struggling film student Amy. All the other cast members looked as if they really knew where their characters were coming from, and dove right into them. I also liked the way the whole Hitchcockian theme was used. Especially the cute little diddy that happened at the end of the movie. As for the DVD itself, picture and sound quality is excellent, and there is a great amount of supplements (inc. 9 deleted scenes, audio commentary, gag reel, ec.) found on the DVD. Even though some people think it is entirely stupid to recommend this movie, I do recommend it.Movie Review: Surprisingly better than the first film.
Summary: 4 Stars
The Plot:At the alpine university, there a contest, anyone could win the best film award at any cost... even if it means eliminating the competition. No one is safe and everyone is suspect. This sequel is more believable and less silly than the first film, it has an more believable ending than the first film and even has surprise ending(The last min of the of the film) is a gem. Good performance by Jennifer Morrison(Stir of Echoes), Matthew Davis(Tigerland) and Lorette Devine in a good comic performance, she reprise her role from the first film. DVD`s has fine anamorphic(2.35:1) transer and Pan & Scan is also avilable in this Sngle Layer Disc. Also an fine Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. An running commentary track by the composer and the director-John Ottman(He`s composed the music for The Usual Suspects and Apt Pupil). Deleted Scenes with opitinal commentary by the director. Also a making of feaurette and gag reel, which some of it is pretty funny. It`s rare a sequel, is better than the first, this one is better than the first. Super 35. Grade:B+.
Movie Review: Good, But Definitetly Far From Great!!
Summary: 4 Stars
I was excited to see "Urban Legends: Final Cut" because I remember seeing a commercial for it on television, yet never remembering its name. I found it here on Amazon, and I remembered instantly the commercial.
Okay. The storyline was good, but it was pretty badly played out. I mean, the deaths were good, but started to deteriorate throughout the entire movie. The first death was incredible, but then it just got boring and unoriginal.
The acting was good, I thought, and the killer was VERY mysterious and VERY creepy and original. I don't think a killer actually SCARED me before, but the costume in this movie was actually very mysterious and kind of freaky.
It was cool to see some of the most infamous urban legends played out in this movie, like the "people can lick too" story. No wonder the movie is called Urban Legends!!
Overall, this was an okay movie, which was good, but it was cheesy and very unoriginal and kind of boring at some parts. But it is definitely worth a try!