Urban Legends: Final Cut

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Urban Legends: Final Cut

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Released Sep 22, 2000

1h 38m

Horror

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At Alpine University, one senior student will be awarded the prestigious Hitchcock Award for best thesis film, virtually guaranteeing the winner a film career in Hollywood. Amy, Travis and Graham are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine, a renowned film school where the competition is killer -- and someone is killing the competition.

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Critics Consensus

This teen horror movie brings nothing new to an already exhausted genre. And it's bad. Really bad.

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Lisa Alspector

Chicago Reader

This horror-and-suspense vehicle, which dabbles pointlessly in reflexivity, doesn't do much with its pseudosavvy characters.

Jan 8, 2007

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Geoff Andrew

Time Out

This horror sequel opens with an out of control passenger plane, then plummets to intellectual ground zero.

Jun 24, 2006

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Bruce Westbrook

Houston Chronicle

What ensues is painfully horrific and reprehensible as entertainment.

Rated: D

Jul 21, 2005

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Emilie Black

JoBlo's Movie Network

Overall, the film is entertaining, but it feels more formulaic than the first, with some parts of its story feeling like they are trying too hard. The film really wants to be more than it is, but it kind of fails.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 21, 2023

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

...a middle-of-the-road slasher flick that's competently made yet mostly devoid of innovative, compelling elements...

Rated: 2/4

Jan 30, 2021

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Trace Thurman

Horror Queers Podcast

If you pretend it's a comedy it almost works.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 30, 2020

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Brian V

Fun cast that mostly went on and found relative success. For a movie that is meta about the film making process, this movies felt a little inept.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/08/25

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Timothy P

One of the worst movies I've ever seen but unfortunately not bad enough to at least be able to laugh at. Just dumb and boring with terrible performances all around. The worst acting with annoying characters and a lame plot. Just don't bother with this nothingness.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/01/25

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Ethan G

There's been worse, but there's certainly been better.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/18/25

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Justin T

I hate films that have extended sections of a fictional film in the real film pretending they are fake films but only reveal it’s a fake film after what appears to be one take although in reality it would have been lots of takes if that makes sense. I mean if a film student made the film in the opening with all that cast and crew and production quality then they are not a film student they are an expert. Anyway, whatever, the fun opening was ruined by a poor concept. The film is well made but silly in an entertaining way. I hate films about film students. Conceptually I hated this film, it’s not really about urban legends at all. It reminded me of Peeping Tom (1960) but with higher production value and less interesting. The cast is so generic. There’s a silly moment when someone hears something through a microphone but it’s nowhere near them, you can't hear someone on a boom mic through a few walls.The locations are cool and it has some really good set pieces and I actually liked the ending. Not the worst sequel but also not very good, slightly below average.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/22/25

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Smackie u

How does a horror movie make me so bored. Literally no point calling it urban legend.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/04/24

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Robert D

The movie isn’t great, let’s be honest. Basically it’s like the previous movie but worse. The characters are out of character for the ones that stayed, Sony tries way too hard to make this a hit that they forget the plot and details seemingly, there is just no way that I’d recommend this to any Horror fans that I actually care about. Even if they did happen to like almost all of the movies that are similar to Saw.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/02/24

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Hart Bochner

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Loretta Devine

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Synopsis

At Alpine University, one senior student will be awarded the prestigious Hitchcock Award for best thesis film, virtually guaranteeing the winner a film career in Hollywood. Amy, Travis and Graham are student filmmakers who would love to make it big in Hollywood. But first they've got to survive their last semester at Alpine, a renowned film school where the competition is killer -- and someone is killing the competition.

Director: John Ottman
Screenwriter: Silvio Horta, Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Original Film, Phoenix Pictures
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 22, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.5M
Runtime: 1h 38m
Sound Mix: SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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