Urban Legend was a wonderful storyline, but the movie focused more on the killings and gore rather than the extremely creative storyline. The idea for the story was very original, with a fresh young cast, but the movie lacked in attention getters, after all if you have seen on slasher film you have seen them all right??
The cast was very well-structured, Joshua Jackson did a wonderful job, although his part was robbed of its acting integrety. Natasha Wagner and Rebecca Gayheart were excellent characters that needed to be developed more. Jared Leto did a wonderful job and his acting ability really shone through.
All in all Urban Legend is an excellent date movie, or a chance just to hang out with friends, but if you are looking for a fresh new addition to the slasher genre, I suggest that you look somewhere else.
As for the people who are comparing this film to the Scream series, I must say that I see where you are coming from, but remember that Scream isn't as original as it seems either. Let's not forget, Night of the Living Dead, Halloween and the ground breaking movie The Exorcist, which all had a grasp pn the horror genre long before Kevin Williamson and Scream. Urban Legend, I thought, had more of an intriguing plot line, but was disappointed to see it left so undeveloped. And people mentioned, why did every character have that parka? Easy answer...the same reason everyone in Scream had those boots!!!
On a scale of 1-10 (1 being yawn, and 10 being nightmares) I give this film a solid 7
