Simply A Masterpiece

Good movie but grossly overrated

Brilliant and touching

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Attempting to finish film school, a director doing her film about a serial killer killing his victims on urban legends starts to realize that a serial killer is running around behind the scenes killing off the crew, and must stop the madman before killing off everyone on the film.This here was a pretty surprising entry. One of the things it does well is that it really features a lot of suspenseful work at times as this makes a hard time of determining if what's being seen is real or just being shot for the movie. It plays the movie-within-a- movie trick to nice effect, since it features enough to make hard to distinguish one from the other including it's wonderful opening sequence that takes a while before realizing after the fact it's been faked, a sequence where the assembled cast watch the dailies only for a strange cut-shot to play where one of the cast is viciously stalked and killed is screened where all but one thinking it to be shot for the film but the other positive that it's real and a later scene where a murder done during the recording of a scream- test loud enough to drown out the victim's own being great scenes. Even going away from that formula, there's some rather fun stalking here from the bathroom chase featuring the woman trying to escape from the killer out into the alleyway or a thrilling chase through the recording studio and out into the surrounding countryside and pool while an attack at a carnival ride hidden by the darkness and fog comes off rather nice as well. The final confrontation in the movie-set graveyard setting is just fun, being creepy, exciting and all-around a blast with the true revelation and the different twists featured throughout make for a nice time here. The last big feature here is a really nice and healthy mix amongst the kills, which along with the mask worn are the film's rather good parts. This one here only has a few flaws to it. The main one here is that the main explanation for the killing has a lot of ways for how to interpret it, and it feels just too clumsy and unrealistic to be considered as believable. The fact that the violence is toned down from anything that it should have, since, for all the creativity displayed in the kills, it isn't very bloody and with a couple of kills that could've been in here. These are the same thing that really should've fixed by taking more of those and making them more bloody. It would've taken out a mild flaw in the film rather simply. The last flaw in here is the film's maddening ability to switch between the film shoot and the real world. It's fun at times, but there's also the fact that the film tries to be clever with changing around the two and it gets a little harder to defend the longer they go on. These here are the film's flaws.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity and a sex scene.

Music composer John Ottman and editor for Bryan Singer films, tries his hand at directing and does a reasonable job with this entertaining derivative meta slasher. The slashings and goings on take place at the most prestigious and unrealistic film school imaginable and a fencing masked killer is wiping out one film student after another. The whole film is exceptionally dumb and doesn't really have anything to do with urban legends, with the exception of a tacked on waking up in a bathtub missing a kidney scene, but Jennifer Morrison is cute and does a good job with this material. None of the deaths are memorable, but the film has a cheesy playful side that knows it's B material and Ottman runs with it.

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.

Urban Legends 2 is yet another slasher movie that's strictly by the numbers, doesn't offer anything new or different, but it's still an okay movie, not quite as good as the first one, again we get a strong cast with decent performances, but in my opinion none of them are very interesting.The beginning was interesting, It starts off with a group of college teens making a slasher movie (surprise surprise), but it was fun, and another stand out scene is the kidney scene, which ends with a nasty decapitation which was really cool, but some of the other deaths are quite lacklustre, and fails to gain any scares. But I did like the fact that they brought back Loretta Divine back in this one, although it doesn't really make any sense why she would work at yet another college campus. The killer is sadly a bit disappointing he just walks around looking bored despite being in a costume, just feels half assed to me and the plot was okay just overused and predictable without any scares whatsoever.All in all an okay follow up, it just lacks any real tension.