... Ali Larter returns from the first Final Destination as Clear Rivers and again gives a good performance bearing in mind the limitations to her role. I like her because she is not the usual perfect beauty that directors tend to pick, which makes her easier to identify with and therefore more ... Read review
For every beginning there is an end...Final Destination 2, the sequel to the hit 2000 ... more
supernatural thriller, finds Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) the only survivor of the crash of Flight 180. Locked away by her own choice in the perceived safety of a psychiatric hospital, Clear now lives in constant terror that Death is coming to claim her, as it did all her friends. Clear may be considered crazy, but she's not wrong. Death is moving toward suburbia...
Set six years after the original "Final Destination" film the latest installment in the ... more
series centers around a high school senior who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident involving herself and all her friends. When the premonition proves true those who have "cheated death" and survived the accident are forced to deal with the repercussions of escaping their fate.
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'Gruesome Fun' - Time Out New York 'A first degree guilty pleasure' - USMagazine 'A real ... more
jolter. Not for the faint of heart' - LosAngeles Times It's a matter of life and death when eight strangers narrowlyescape a catastrophic freeway accident. Only a young girlspremonition saved them all from a grisly end. But now theyhaveput a rift in death's design, there is a price to pay -and it's going to be painful. Packed with cutting edge special effects, state of the art goreand enough scares to send your heartbeat into overdrive, FinalDestination 2 is a killer sequel to the smash hit original( FinalDestination). Fasten your seat belts and prepare yourself for one horrifyingride...it may be your last!
It's a matter of life and death when eight strangers narrowlyescape a catastrophic freeway ... more
accident. Only a young girlspremonition saved them all from a grisly end. But now they haveputa rift in death's design, there is a price to pay - and it's goingto be painful.Packed with cutting edge special effects, state ofthe art gore and enough scares to send your heartbeat intooverdrive, Final Destination 2 is a killer sequel to the smash hitoriginal ( FinalDestination). Fasten your seat belts and prepareyourself for one horrifying ride...it may be your last! Special Features: Filmmaker's commentary Bringing Death To Life documentary Deleted and alternate scenes Music videos The Terror Gauge Cheating Death: Beyond And Backdocumentary Choose your fate Fact track
Final Destination: Death is coming and Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) is blessed with the ... more
curse of knowing when how and where the Grim Reaper will strike. Alex's bone-chilling gift reveals itself just as the teenager embarks on a trip to Paris with his high school French class. In the plane's cabin buckled-in and ready for take off Alex experiences a powerful premonition. He sees the plane explode in a fiery blaze moments after leaving the ground. Sensing imminent doom Alex panics and insists that everyone get off the plane. In the melee that ensues seven people including Alex are forced to disembark. As each fumes about their lost opportunity to visit Paris Alex's horrific premonition proves tragically accurate. The ill-fated plane explodes in midair. Shocked and confused the survivors struggle to understand how Alex was able to anticipate the catastrophe. Some are drawn to his eerie clairvoyance but most of the group is scared of his gift. As sceptical FBI Agents question his every word Alex tries to reconcile his tragedy and return to a normal life but portents of doom surround him. (Dir. James Wong 2000) Final Destination 2: It's a matter of life and death when eight strangers narrowly escape a catastrophic freeway accident. But now that they have put a rift in death's design there is a price to pay - and it's going to be painful! (Dir. David R. Ellis 2002) Final Destination 3: Set six years after the original Final Destination film the latest installment in the series centers around a high school senior who has a premonition of a fatal roller coaster accident involving herself and all her friends. When the premonition proves true those who have "cheated death" and survived the accident are forced to deal with the repercussions of escaping their fate. (Dir. James Wong 2006)
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Advantages: Entertaining thriller Disadvantages: Some confusing bits
...Larter returns from the first Final Destination as Clear Rivers and again gives a good performance bearing in mind the limitations to her role. I like her because she is not the usual perfect beauty that directors tend to pick, which makes her easier to identify with and therefore more realistic.
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Having seen the first Final Destination, I watched this immediately afterwards, expecting it to be pretty average. There are a lot of similarities with the first one, so that I was left thinking I'd seen it all before, but on the whole, this was a compelling film that kept me on the edge of my seat even though I thought I knew what was going to happen. The pacing is great - the film flashed by in no time at all and the viewer isn't given a moment ... more
Kimberly Corman is going on a road trip with her friends...or so she thinks. On the way, she suddenly has a premonition about a car crash and terrifies the life out of her friends by coming to a complete halt on a highway. While trying to explain what she thinks is about to happen to a disbelieving police officer, the crash happens, killing her friends and several other people. Thanks to her premonition though, there are survivors. But Kimberley remembers a plane crash a year before after which the survivors died in freak accidents one by one. The only survivor is Clear Rivers, and she is in a psychiatric hospital. Kimberley goes to see Clear hoping for some answers. Will she get any? And will she persuade the other survivors that they need to cheat death in order to stay alive?
A J Cooke plays Kimberly Corman. I've seen the actress in Ripper and thought she was really good. As Kimberley, she gave a convincing performance - she does a lot of freaking out, which she managed to do without annoying the pants off me, so that is definitely a plus. This is though a film that concentrates on action rather than character development, so Cooke doesn't really have the chance to show us what she's made of. Ali Larter returns from the first Final Destination as Clear Rivers and again gives a good performance bearing in mind the limitations to her role. I like her because she is not the usual perfect beauty that directors tend to pick, which makes her easier to identify with and therefore more realistic.
I spent ages trying to work out where I had seen Michael Landes, who plays the part of Officer Thomas Burke. He has recently been on our screens in Love Soup, along with Tamsin Grieg, but I know him best from an Agatha Christie interpretation. I really like him. There is something very appealing about the way he looks and acts on screen. As Burke, he is a very sympathetic character - he is the only one who believes Kimberly to begin with. Acting-wise, Landes gives a competent performance - again, he is forced to show more action than emotion - nevertheless he won me over. Without him, I think this film would have been little more than average.
Having seen the first Final Destination, I watched this immediately afterwards, expecting it to be pretty average. There are a lot of similarities with the first one, so that I was left thinking I'd seen it all before, but on the whole, this was a compelling film that kept me on the edge of my seat even though I thought I knew what was going to happen. The pacing is great - the film flashed by in no time at all and the viewer isn't given a moment to draw breath. And it really isn't necessary to have seen the first film in order to understand this one - it can be watched as a stand-alone and in fact, might be all the better for it.
Visually, there are some pretty spectacular accidents. Some of it is really gory, particularly when compared to the first, because we actually see the results of the accidents rather than being made to imagine it. One of the crash survivors is cut into pieces by a flying barbed wire fence - it literally slices him in three and we see his guts spilling out. This is something I'm more used to with Korean and Japanese horror. I don't mind it, but obviously some people will find it unnecessarily nasty - so be warned! There is a rating of 15 for this film - I actually expected it to be an 18 - but as it is about teenagers, I suppose it is aimed at the teen market.
There are some flaws in the plot - or at least parts that I didn't fully grasp - and that I think could have been handled better. It took me a while to work out what had happened to one of the characters from the first film, because it isn't immediately obvious. And because we aren't given any insight into the characters before the car crash, it took me a while to work out who they all were - the first death after the crash seemed completely random to me because I hadn't recognised him from the day of the crash. Obviously character development isn't the most important thing in this film, but being given time to work out who was who would have been a good idea!
I actually really liked this film. I expected to find it a bit silly - I did borrow it from a fourteen year old after all - but instead I found it thoroughly entertaining, albeit with the odd flaw. I have the third installment to watch and am a bit concerned that they can't possibly make it as good as the first two, but who knows? This one certainly worked for me. Recommended.
Advantages: Well paced, never loses direction and surprisingly intelligent Disadvantages: An unknown and redundant cast with minimal character investment
It would be easy to dismiss FinalDestination2 as just another tragic teen flick. Such movies rarely win critical acclaim in their first outings, let alone with a rehashed sequel to continue the franchise. But while the sequel to the 2000 hit wins no prizes for covering new ground, it certainly lives up to the expectancy bestowed on it by its core fans.
The premise is simple. You don't mess with the plan of death. What is death's plan? This is the question that FinalDestination poses and answers over the course of a hundred action packed, and often violent, minutes. The thing which seperates this franchise from the rest in its throwaway genre is that the movie has no intention of exceeding its own expectations. A slasher breed movie in every sense of the word, yet with an absent villian who exists only in cutaway camera shots as we ...
Advantages: Very innovative, elaborate death scenes Disadvantages: Mini Premonitions
film you?d be very naïve to think that it?s going to all be fresh and new but luckily because of the ingenuity and shrewdness of the FinalDestination films it still manages to grip audiences, so much so that a forth film has recently been released, the only other horror film which I think surpasses that in the number of sequels and innovativeness is the Saw franchise.
Unfortunately I don?t think FinalDestination2 quite manages to match up to the imaginativeness of the first film because it?s simply a carbon copy but as the saying goes ?if it aint broke, don?t fix it? and that?s what they?ve done with this film. The makers of FinalDestination 1 and 2 know they?ve got a good thing going here and know that it would be foolish to alter anything. In this film they?ve tried to go that one step further, making the film a little bit more ...
Advantages: Breath taking screaminess!! Disadvantages: The faint hearted should turn away!
I watched FinalDestination2 on DVD last week with no pre-conceived ideas of how it was going to be. In fact, I thought it might be a bit naff considering I had seen the first film and thought it was brilliant, I didn't see how they could carry it on! The first film had a bunch of kids going away on a school trip on a plane and one of the pupils has a dream that they all die in this plane. He wakes up on the plane, freaks out and gets kicked off with some others as well and a teacher. They are all so busy arguing and then as the plane takes off they watch it as it explodes! Then they all look a the guy who had had the premonition and think he's odd! From here on in the story goes on about how they cheated death and now it's coming back for them! One by one they are being killed off in very graphic ways!
Anyway, on to Final ...
...It is a clever display of cinematic virtuosity... (Los Angeles Times, )
...A smooth and sharp slice of teen-gothic cheese....An apt -- perhaps even a therapeutic -- entertainment for these jumpy times... (New York Times, )
...This follow-up gets the balance just right....There's a neatly mordant touch throughout... (Sight and Sound, )
...Shirley Walker's score displays a thorough understanding of horror jolts... (Variety, )
DVD Description
In FINAL DESTINATION 2, the basic notion of cheating mortality is further refined with an even more gripping plot provided by Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber, the duo behind the film BLUNT. Director David R. Ellis revels in film as an entertainment vehicle and the result is a no-holds-barred, raucous good time. Ellis' background as a stuntman and stunt co-ordinator, helps him build electric suspense through a chain of seemingly simple actions, that are in fact loaded and lethal. In the original, FINAL DESTINATION, a group of students avoided the tragic crash of Flight 180, when Alexander Browning had a premonition. Death, however, didn't like being outwitted, and one by one the survivors died in freak accidents. The sole survivor was Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), who voluntarily checked into a padded room at Stonybrook Institute. FINAL DESTINATION II takes place on Flight 180's one-year anniversary. Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) is joyriding with some friends on Route 23 when she sees herself, her friends, and other drivers involved in a massive multi-car pileup. The scene is so artfully executed, it physically hurts to watch. Kimberly, together with police officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) save a group of people who would have otherwise died in the crash, but as ever, death prevails. Evan (David Paetkau), the Trans Am-loving, lottery winner, puts up a good fight but is ultimately impaled on a fire escape ladder and Tim (James Kirk) almost chokes to death at the dentist and is later flattened by a piece of industrial glass. Clear Rivers busts out of the psychiatric ward to help the remaining survivors – they need to pool their efforts and read the signs of impending death, before it claims their lives.
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