the audience applauded

one of my absolute favorites!

Just perfect...

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Urban Legends 2: The Final Cut (2000): Dir: John Ottman / Cast: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Anthony Anderson, Eva Mendes: Nauseating pile of dirt that should be buried in a very deep hole. Subtitle "Final Cut" represents slasher clichés on its physical level but it also addresses the idea that the students are making a film that is probably about as stupid as this one. Young filmmakers attend a school where they hope to obtain the Hitchcock award but this junk lacks everything that made Hitchcock's movies so appealing. One wonders if they have actually seen one of his films, or if attaching his name to this tripe would some how add interest? The characters exist for their execution, which is done in gory detail, including a scene where a female is decapitated via window. That is about the height of creative thought in this garbage. Even the production is enough to make a person laugh. Director John Ottman has fun with the clichés but never establishes a story or characters worth our time. Laughable performances by Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis, Hart Bochner, Eva Mendes, and Anthony Anderson. This will not likely be a career highlight for any of them. It is just a mindless sequel bent on displaying sickening acts of violence. My suggestion is to watch an Alfred Hitchcock film instead and see where this film went wrong. Score: 2 / 10

Much like the first film, 'Urban Legends 2', is also one of those films that you appreciate more for the idea than the execution. There wasn't anything new in this sequel, there were murders based on urban legends and it was your usual mystery. Though the acting was not too bad, the actual writing and over complications are a perfect example of too many cooks spoiling the broth, with the cooks being all the stupid twists written in. There was nothing memorable about it, and I watched it in a completely idle mind, not taking it even remotely seriously. It was probably not the worst murder mystery ever taken, but definitely not amongst the best. The only thing that makes this flick watchable is Loretta, playing the lovable, kick-ass campus security guard.

I kind of enjoyed the first film "Urban Legend" and probably my favourite of that long list of "Scream" imitators to follow. Straight to video "Final Cut" uses the same concept on a serial killer (donning a fencing mask) on campus using urban legends to dispatch students, but using a film within a film structure. However it lays it out in such a banal manner, still quite nasty delivering the shocks and twisty in its reveals. But it's moronic and generic as can be. At the time of its release the cast was virtually unknown with some just starting off, but now being quite well known. Loretta Devine (somewhat comic relief) is one of two to return from the original in a very unbelievable manner, while Rebecca Gayheart has a neat little reference to her original character. Jennifer Morrison is acceptable in the heroine role, with the likes of Mathew Davis, Eva Mendes, Anthony Anderson, Joseph Lawrence and Hart Bochner (who horror fans might remember in the 80s slasher "Terror Train"). The script really does like to throw about many movie references, which is never too distracting ("Digital sucks. Latex rules.") But it doesn't hide how contrived and silly it turns out to be. Not as clever as it thinks, when trying to blur the lines between reality and fantasy and the stalk and slash elements are very run-of- the-mill with little to no tension sustained. Slickly directed by John Ottman, but foreseeable and vanilla. "Urban legend my ass."

Studying at Alpine University, Amy Mayfield seeks help, especially from the late Travis Stark's twin brother Trevor Stark.She needs help to complete her thesis on Pendleton's 'urban legends' theme for Professor Solomon's film class.After the volunteers fall victim one by one to new urban legend-copycat-killings, both desperately dig for the truth to save themselves and hopefully their friends, all suspect as well as staff...Did we need a sequel to the original? I don't think so.But, even though it'ss one of the most pointless horrors going, it's really good for a comedy.devoid of any scares or ability have any element of fear in the film, we have to rely on the (some) now famous faces to provide something else other than scares. And they sort of give us what we want.The main story is like some watered down version of Scream 3 (a film that isn't very good either). Now while that movie takes itself very seriously, this thankfully doesn't.I don't know whether it was the makers intentions, but everybody has an 'evil' look about them during one scene in the film. It happens that much, that you really have no idea who the killer is until the big reveal at the end.So all in all, as a horror movie, it stinks, as a sequel, it stinks.As a diverting piece of humour it works, and for some reason, it's ever so surreal.