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· Year: 2000
· Also known as: Légendes urbaines 2, Leyendas urbanas: Corte final, Urban Legend 2, Urban Legend 2: The Final Cut,
· Director: John Ottman
· Writer: Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson
· Cast: Jennifer Morrison, Matthew Davis
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Part of the Urban Legend series.
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A killer on a college campus does in his/her victims in accordance with urban legends, while a film student--and highly potential victim--directs a film about the same subject.
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An overdone (though not as much as its predecessor), derivative, silly, poorly planned, ninety-nine minute result of pointed marketing research. And leave Hitchcock the hell alone!
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No movie can really be judged on its own, it is inevitably linked to its era, to other movies of its time. Some years ago, a movie like 'Urban Legends' may have seemed original and exciting, yet put into its place, i.e., in the aftermath of the 'Scream' series and after its own direct predecessor, this is just nothing new, really. It is a little horror flic in which lots of beautiful young people die, some get to live, the killer's identity being revealed at the end, his/her identity being rather surprising, some funny characters serving as comic relief et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. We know the concept. It has become lame, very much lame indeed.
It takes a serious amount of energy and experience and creativity to turn such a concept into a fresh and exciting and intelligent film, something mastered by 'Blair Witch 2'. However, the director of 'Urban Legends' is John Ottman, a brilliant composer, amongst other things. Yet this is his directional debut, and he possibly chose the wrong concept as a start. You see he's trying, he's trying very hard to get this done - and the result is solid, indeed. But some surprising twists and some beautiful shots alone cannot save this, which is sad, for his soundtrack is great, also the looks of the movie, and the idea to do it at a film academy.
'Urban Legend', the predecessor, wasn't a bad film - it just wasn't great. Yet it had something its sequel doesn't: Actors like Brad Dourif and John Neville, and the freshness of the idea of murders based upon urban legends. Part two adds nothing to that, nothing at all, so it has to remain a rip-off, not a bad one, but an unnecessary one. The result is a film which has little thrills and scares, as we all know the scheme. Perhaps in the future, Ottman should do something else to prove his faculties - this movie is simply a lost cause.
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