Urban Legends: Final Cut (R)
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This came out in 2000, but I didn't see it until 2017. It's a sort-of-sequel to Urban Legend, but certainly not as good as that movie. (I think most critics thought the first movie was bad, and thought this movie was a lot worse. Personally, I liked both movies... not a lot, but definitely more than critics. Although to be honest, a big part of the appeal for me was seeing Jennifer Morrison in something she did before I became really familiar with her in Once Upon a Time. Which, of course, is something I couldn't have appreciated about the movie if I'd seen it when it came out.)

So, Morrison plays a film student named Amy Mayfield, who doesn't really have any idea what kind of film she wants to make for her thesis. But she is given an idea by campus security guard Reese Wilson (the only major character from the original movie to appear in this one). And of course, that idea is a serial killer whose murders are based on urban legends. Although there was only one murder in this movie that was even remotely familiar to me as such. (But there was also a scene in Amy's student film that, while not familiar to me as an urban legend, was the basis of a short film I'd seen earlier this year called Under the Bed.) Anyway... one of Amy's classmates and fellow filmmakers, Travis Stark, is murdered (though his death is ruled a suicide). Soon thereafter, Amy meets Travis's twin brother, Trevor, who believes Travis was murdered. So the two of them sort of begin trying to catch the killer, while Amy continues to work on her film. And... other people get murdered.

That's pretty much all I can say about the plot. I can understand critics (or anyone else) thinking it's not a good movie, but I can't really understand thinking it's a terrible movie. I mean, maybe it started out bad, but it grew on me as it progressed. Then again, the final revelation of the killer and motive was kind of lame, but not so much that it negated my mild enjoyment of the film up to that point. And after that, there's a strange sort of meta-ness to the movie that I liked, and then a cameo appearance by someone at the very end that I found quite amusing. And, um... I feel like I should mention that there were some other familiar actors in the movie, including Joseph Lawrence, Eva Mendes, and Anthony Anderson. And... yeah, that's all I want to say.

Followed by Urban Legends: Bloody Mary