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Here's a safety tip: If you're ever sitting in the backseat
of a car, attempting to murder the driver with an ax, wear your
seatbelt. That way if he slams on the brakes, steens, and almost
runs off a bridge you won't drop your ax and go flying through
the windshield, straight out into the river and the pouring
rain.
Such is the only apparent moral of "Urban Legend", a "Scream"
and "I Know What You Did Last Summer" rip -off with little ingenuity
and buckets of fake blood. Someone goes around recreating urban
legends by way of bizarre and often brutal murders- wearing
a hooded jacket that shields his or her face. Does the latter
part sound familiar?
Of course the targeted college students get scared, as they
get knocked off - one-by-one.
While not thrilling, "Urban Legend", might have held my attention
- if it was only a ninety- minute movie, but it stretched on
too long. After a while I started to wonder if the only way
I'd find out who the killer was would be by the process of elimination
- the last person alive on campus has to be the one who did
the killing, right?
"Urban Legend", like the recent "Halloween H20" disaster, is
an overly bloody, sloppy parody of a horror film. No wonder
even the good ones such as "Scream" are too often lumped into
the "cheesy" category - movies like "Urban Legend" give others
in its genre a bad name!
My rating: 1 star
Rating : R (for horror violence/gore, language and sexual content)
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