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Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) Rank 5 Reviews
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filmcritic.com spreads Urban Legends
filmcritic.com passes on Final Cut
filmcritic.com spreads Urban Legends
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Wolfpack Productions (Sujit 'Chief' Chawla)
Popcorn Pictures Review
A Guide to Current DVD (Aaron Beierle)
UTK Daily Beacon (Ryan Freeman)
MovieFreak.com (Dan Peters)
Steve Baker: Barfly Magazine
The Land of Eric (Eric D. Snider)
DigitalVD.de (Tino Hahn)
DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
At Alpine University, a young filmmaker named Amy Mayfield (Jennifer Morrison) is working hard to complete her thesis work. But her thesis is no normal term paper, instead it is a suspense/thriller picture based around urban legends, quite a hot topic as ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at DVD Authority.com ("Fusion3600")
Filmtracks (Christian Clemmensen)
TheWorldJournal.com (Giancarlo De Lisi)
CultureDose.net (Mike Bracken)
Movie-Vault.com (Matthew Coats)
DVD Net (Andrew MacLennan)
Planet Sick-Boy (Jon Popick)
SPLICEDwire (Rob Blackwelder)
Mutant Reviewers From Hell
Reel.com (Rod Armstrong)
Movie Magazine International
Screen It! Entertainment Reviews for Parents
The Cranky Critic (Chuck Schwartz)
PopMatters (Cynthia Fuchs)
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Radio Free Entertainment
B Fatt. & Lazy Movie Reviews
Mutant Reviewers From Hell
MovieJuice! (Mark Ramsey)
The Critic's Homepage takes a slash a "Urban Legends 2: Final Cut"
efilmcritic.com (Charles Tatum)
Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
eye WEEKLY (Tom Lyons)
Los Angeles Times (David Chute)
Anchorage Press (Peter Keough)
Philadelphia City Paper (Cindy Fuchs)
Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Urban Legend: Final Cut," the sequel to a pale "Scream" ripoff, shrugs off all pretentions of cleverness and self-awareness to bring the body count genre right back to its lowest common denominator: stupid kids getting hacked to pieces for the blunt, ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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 ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at San Francisco Examiner (Wesley Morris)
Exploded Goat review (Joe Cormack)
GamePro.com ("Star Dingo")
Fetal Film Report - Urban Legends: Final Cut
25frames.org (Christoph Huber)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
cinEncanto (Pablo del Moral)
Pop Entertainment.com
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Resolved: Film students are annoying in person and insufferable in movies. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Has slick production credits and performances that are quite adequate given the (narrow) opportunities of the genre. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
Has a dark, low-budget feel and an incongruous combination of self-consciously jokey patter and gross-out gore. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
Schlock, but amusing schlock. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at San Francisco Chronicle (Peter Stack)
DVD Clinic ("Dr. Drew")
Dark Horizons (Garth Franklin)
DVD Talk (G. Noel Gross)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Amy: ``The winner is basically guaranteed a chance at directing in Hollywood.'' Trevor: ``Do you think that somebody would kill for that?'' You betcha. "Urban Legends: Final Cut" takes place at a film school where the best senior thesis film wins the Hitc ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Movieman's Guide to the Movies (Brian Oliver)
ViewLondon (Sarah Hall)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Empire Magazine (--)
So predictable that it's completely shock free. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Empire Magazine (--)
Slasherpool (Fredrik Nordstrom)
While far from as good as the original Urban Legend, this is still way too underrated. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Slasherpool (Fredrik Nordstrom)
CheckOut.com (Ed Scharf)
Hey, 'ja ever hear the one about the guy who was forced to watch yet another teen ensemble slasher flick? You know, the one where the guy can't take it any more, so he runs from the theater screaming? ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at CheckOut.com (Ed Scharf)
Boston Globe (Jay Carr)
Awful in ways that are just clever enough often enough to make it intermittently watchable. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Boston Globe (Jay Carr)
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 the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at New York Daily News (Elizabeth Weitzman)
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 the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at New York Post (Lou Lumenick)
JoBlo's Movie Emporium ("JoBlo")
Film Quips Online (John R. McEwen)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Steve Murray)
A bad remake of Scream 3 . ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Steve Murray)
filmcritic.com (Max Messier)
Palo Alto Online (Joe Mader)
ToxicUniverse.com (Mike Bracken)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
The King's Room (Paul Perkins)
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
FilmHead.com (Matt Heffernan)
TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Preposterous plotting and interchangeable young actors. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at TV Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Globe and Mail (Liam Lacey)
Movielocity Movie Reviews (Blake Kunisch)
Miami Herald (Sara Wildberger)
Palo Alto Weekly (Joe Mader)
The young actors all look like blander versions of more famous people. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Joe Mader)
Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Scott's Movie Reviews (Scott Mantz)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Boston Herald (Amy Amatangelo)
New York Times (Dave Kehr)
Mr. Ottman doesn't have the firm grasp of tone necessary to make his deliberate ambiguities seem other than simple confusion. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at New York Times (Dave Kehr)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
The script for Urban Legends: Final Cut was the best of 30 different takes from different combinations of writers. That's far scarier than anything in the movie. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Simply a lousy film from start to finish. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Village Voice (Nick Rutigliano)
Simply less campily moronic than its predecessor, a tired kill-by-numbers. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Village Voice (Nick Rutigliano)
Los Angeles Times (David Chute)
Has promising raw material to burn--and that's pretty much what's been done. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Los Angeles Times (David Chute)
Chicago Reader (Lisa Alspector)
Doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Chicago Reader (Lisa Alspector)
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 the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Film.com (Gemma Files)
Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies (Mr. Cranky)
Salon.com (Mary Elizabeth Williams)
Predictable, gratuitous and just self-referential enough to believe itself hip and knowing. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Salon.com (Mary Elizabeth Williams)
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 the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at The New York Times (Dave Kehr)
LA Weekly (Paul Malcolm)
Wears its lack of originality in a crowded slasher marketplace like a red badge of desperation. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at LA Weekly (Paul Malcolm)
The UK Critic (Ian Waldron-Mantgani)
Chicago Tribune (John Petrakis)
It's hard not to feel angry that you've spent almost two hours watching this moronic exercise. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Chicago Tribune (John Petrakis)
Baltimore Sun (Chris Kaltenbach)
MovieMaze (Marco Dzebro)
Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
The only quandary in this film is in where to begin despising it. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Washington Post (Desson Thomson)
Film.com (John Hartl)
If you've seen one "Scream" rip-off, you really have seen them all. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Film.com (John Hartl)
Variety (Robert Koehler)
A poorer film than the paltry original even as it strikes a self-consciously clever pose. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Variety (Robert Koehler)
Mr. Showbiz (Cody Clark)
As for genuine willies, well, chances are you've had more disturbing encounters with, say, a belligerent Shih Tzu. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Mr. Showbiz (Cody Clark)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
The embodiment of all that is wrong with the horror genre today . . . avoid it like raw plutonium ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
Entertainment Weekly (Ty Burr)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes. ...read the complete Urban Legends: Final Cut movie review at Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Sean Axmaker)
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