Review of Urban Legends Final Cut on Filmviews.net
Year2000 ReviewerChris Docker
I have a pretty high tolerance for movies - I go out with the firm intention of enjoying them - but Urban Legends 2 goes straight in my "trash can" pile. Using a film school as the backdrop to the serial killer story, with a film student making a movie about urban legends as a loose sub-plot theme, it makes an unforgivably bad movie whilst slating bad movies and making constant reference to movie greats such as Hitchcock. Practically every scene is heavily laden with tired "shocker" techniques - wobbly cameras, scarifying music and predictable editing. The result is shock-weariness very early in the movie - I really couldn't care less who got killed in the next scene and whether that was for real or just a dream. At one point in the movie the security guard radios for help from the film school saying, "We need help on the film set". Sadly, it didn't arrive soon enough for the film-makers.
Rating: 2/10;