SeriousJest
You may be flipping through your cable channels and come across this movie. Parts of it may seem entertaining, especially if you're a fan of urban legends, like myself. If you continue about your business with this film on in the background and occasionally stop to watch a couple of scenes, you may not be disappointed
but do not waste your time by dedicating over an hour and a half to watch a collection of half-interesting urban legends executed with unconvincing special effects. While the plot twist isn't bad, the ending is otherwise hokey and ruins what was a mediocre movie featuring some recognizable actors like Anthony Anderson, Eva Mendes, and Joseph Lawrence
and Loretta Devine, shame on you for playing this role
you know what I'm talmmbout. In sum, this flick is bad enough so that its homage to Alfred Hitchcock is a little insulting, but it's not bad background if you keep your expectations low.For more reviews and a kickass podcast, check out www.livemancave.com
laballatician
At least, that's the only explanation I can come up with for this mess. The first Urban Legend wasn't exactly great, but it was fun, had some sweet kills and the idea of deaths based off of urban legends has a lot of potential for a good series of flicks. Final Cut takes zero advantage of that potential, however. The whole urban legend thing seems almost shoe horned in to another movie. The killer's motive is actually interesting, and had the execution made a bit of sense could have made an interesting movie away from this franchise. But this is an Urban Legend movie so the fact that we don't get some really classic urban legend kills is inexcusable. There is one cool scene involving ice nd a bathtub that really worked, though. The real problem with the movie is that it's just not trying. None of the characters aim beyond formulaic, and the film requires that they all be stupid beyond belief to keep the story going. And when a movie depends on such stupidity from its characters AND its audience to reach its finale, it's clear that whoever made it just didn't seem the need to put much effort in it. So I say follow their lead, and don't bother putting in the effort to watch this mess.
eduser2003
This movie made no damn sense. After the star saw her friend killed on tape why would she not go to the police. Because some guy that she just met told her that he doesn't have a good relationship with the police. What the hell does that have to do with her reporting that there is a killer on the loose killing her friends. Her friends continue to get murdered and she continues to not say anything. Explain. There is no explanation. In addition, when the kids get killed, why is there absence not reported? Didn't they have any friends or love ones? The teacher stills the work of a student and then kills the student. Isn't this a rip off of DOA? It is, but soooo much worse. Please, if you haven't already, do not waste your time watching this nonsense.
Raul Faust
"Urban Legends: Final Cut" is much similar to the first movie of the franchise, but in here we don't see that lazy plot holes. We can see some clichés of course, but they don't spoil the movie's quality as they did in the first one. The acting is good, the scenes aren't predictable (at least for me) and I doubt anyone knew who was the killer until it was revealed. Moreover, the action wasn't that exhausting never-ending scenes that makes the audience sleep, they were quickly and terminus leaving the spectator satisfied instead of bored. Bottoms up for Eva Mendes for being so sexy and bottoms up for Loretta Devine for being so funny as an incompetent police officer.