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Urban Legends - Final Cut
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Description
At the renowned film school Alpine University, one senior student is awarded the esteemed Hitchcock Award for the best thesis film each year. A down-to-earth documentary film student Amy Mayfield wants to take a crack at the Hitchcock. During a chance meeting with the new campus security guard Reese, Amy is inspired by the story of an urban legend at Reese's former place of employment, Pendleton University. Deciding to break away from documentaries, Amy's thesis film will be a work of fiction about urban legends. After writing the script, story boarding the shots and casting her actors, Amy and her crew prepare to roll camera. When Amy's film crew starts falling prey to fatal "accidents," she questions where fiction ends and truth begins. When all the dots start to connect back to her, she realizes she must unmask the killer before she becomes an urban legend.
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While Urban Legends: Final Cut is not nearly as terrifying or inventive as some of its predecessors, the film does offer up a fairly suspenseful whodunit that fans of the teen horror genre will likely appreciate. Amy Mayfield, the film's heroine (played by fresh-faced Jennifer Morrison), is the daughter of an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker trying to make a name for herself at Alpine University, "the greatest film school that ever existed." Along with several other students she is competing for the coveted Hitchcock award, which virtually guarantees the winner a successful career in Hollywood. When the film school's resident genius and likely winner of the award is found dead, suspicions arise. As other film students are killed off one by one, everyone becomes a suspect. Would someone kill to win the prestigious award? While striving to be Hitchcockian in theme (as evidenced by its multiple references to the director himself), the film never quite moves beyond cliché. Many scenes are a little too reminiscent of other popular teen horror flicks like Scream (the anonymous masked killer, though not nearly as frightening), The Blair Witch Project (Amy is chased through desolate woods by her stalker), and Friday the 13th (Amy hides from the killer in a lake setting eerily similar to the one where Jason died so many years ago). These elements seem just a little worn out. Morrison gives a serviceable performance, and Loretta Devine, from the original Urban Legend, adds humor as a Foxy Brown-worshiping security guard. The film manages to keep you guessing until its conclusion, and a sequence set in an abandoned amusement park is truly creepy. But ultimately Urban Legends: Final Cut lacks the originality to make a name for itself among the many films of its genre. --Mindy Ruehmann
Can't believe this does not have more ratings....Review date: 2010-07-05 Rating: 10 out of 10This movie to me was awesome! My husband and I watched this movie and wow was it a jumper movie for me.... this was scary and keeps you guessing... I was soooooo scared.... this has great actors, great plot, great scenario's... I don't want to give the movie away, but I know that my heart was racing... I did not know what was going to happen next...
ReviewsWith so many other films out there...Review date: 2010-03-03 Rating: 4 out of 10...why waste your time here? That isn't to say that `Urban Legends: The Final Cut' doesn't do its job (it surely has it's moments of terror), but this film is truly a dime-a-dozen these days, and this is far from the top of the pack. In fact, the original `Urban Legend' film scared the daylights out of me, and while it wasn't quite on par with its obvious influence (`Scream'), it still remains one of my favorite `slasher' films.
This is a huge step backwards.
The film is heavy on the cheese factor (even the whole premise of a girl trying to receive a coveted Hitchcock award by serving up glorified snuff is rather preposterous) and the acting is serviceable at best, and the whole `he has a twin' aspect of the film borders on laughable, BUT when it hits it hits quite well, and even though we've seen it before (the film is not ashamed of the amount of scenes it borrows from better films) it is still pretty scary.
I did like the updated mask.
In the end though, there really isn't any reason to see this film. If you are a huge fan of the genre and want to see something new (that is, if you haven't already seen this, which I'm pretty sure you have) then I can understand a moderate interest in seeing the film at least once, and I'd encourage that, but if you have seen the film then I really don't understand the need to see it again.
Well, unless you want it fresh on your mind for a review!Pretty good slasher sequelReview date: 2009-03-18 Rating: 8 out of 10Urban 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.A Perfect SequelReview date: 2009-01-11 Rating: 10 out of 10i loved this movie
it is the entry in the urban legend series
i love every single urban legend so much
i recommended this movie highly!Good, But Definitetly Far From Great!!Review date: 2007-12-31 Rating: 8 out of 10I 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!
Product Details/SpecificationsActor(s):
Joseph Lawrence
Matthew Davis
Jennifer Morrison
Loretta Devine
Hart Bochner
Creators:
Amanda Goodpaster (Producer)
Brad Luff (Producer)
Gina Matthews (Producer)
Michael McDonnell (Producer)
Paul Harris Boardman (Writer)
Scott Derrickson (Writer)
Silvio Horta (Writer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony PicturesEAN: 9780767857710Binding: DVDISBN: 0767857712Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC, Release date: 2001-02-06Universal product code (UPC): 043396056664Number of discs: 1Aspect ratio: 2.35:1Audience rating: R (Restricted)Region code: 1Running time: 97 minutesTheatrical release date: 2000-09-22Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Brand: Sony
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