Final Destination 2
by David R. Ellis
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Actor: A.j. Cook, Ali Larter, Michael LandesDirector: David R. Ellis
Brand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Final Destination 2
Movie Review: Overflowing with grue
Summary: 5 Stars
The first "Final Destination" is an enjoyable experience. The film tells the sad story of Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), a young kid who has a dream about an airplane explosion. He and his friends escape death due to his clairvoyant vision, but they soon learn that the grim reaper isn't about to throw in the towel. Alex and his buddies thwarted "death's design," an apparently immutable scheme that says when it's your time to go, you go. Within a few weeks of the crash, the survivors begin to perish in extremely elaborate yet extraordinarily painful ways. One friend dies in the shower after slipping on water. Another pal meets her maker after making contact with a speeding bus. Nasty, nasty business. "Final Destination" works well as a film due to nice production values, believable acting, and an original premise. Although the movie borrows heavily from the slasher genre, the idea of replacing a maniac wearing a hockey mask with the unseen force of death is a nice touch. "Final Destination 2" retains that essential plot even as it ramps up the gore quotient, gives us a much higher body count, and throws in a few more twists and turns. The movie also presents us even more elaborate death sequences.
"Final Destination 2" introduces us to Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook), a young lady with her whole life ahead of her. She's about ready to set out on an extended road trip with her friends as the film begins when the same thing that happened to Alex Browning in the first film happens to her. While waiting to pull on to a busy road, Corman experiences a waking dream in which her vehicle becomes one of many automobiles involved in a disastrous multi-car accident. This vision is so extraordinary in its details that Kimberly refuses to move her car one inch after coming back to reality. Dozens of cars stack up behind her, with horns blaring and drivers yelling, but she still adamantly insists on staying put. When Officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) arrives on the scene to get the mess unsnarled, Kimberly tries to tell him about the dream. Guess what? While attempting to tell her incredible tale, disaster unfolds on the highway. A real catastrophe, and one that occurs in the exact spot Kimberly dreamed about. Yikes. Now, just like in the first film, Kimberly, her friends, and many of the people behind her that would have died but didn't face the nightmare of trying to live through the restoration of death's design. The chances aren't good.
Kimberly and the drivers she held up in traffic--which just happens to be the same people she saw killed in her dream--meet up at the station house. Everyone hears about Corman's vision, and nearly everyone thinks it's a crock. If you believe someone dies soon after, give yourself an award. The first guy expires on what should be the best day of his life. He wins the lottery and goes out on a spending spree to celebrate. Unfortunately, he drops his new watch down the kitchen sink. While trying to retrieve the timepiece, a small fire breaks out in the apartment. Since his hand is stuck, he can only stand by helplessly as his abode goes up in flames. Finally, he frees his hand, flees down the fire escape, and rapidly moves on to the next plane of existence when the fire escape ladder plunges through his head. Imaginative, huh? Every other death builds on this one. A pane of glass smashes one of the survivors flat as a pancake. A head caught in an elevator door proves fatal for a female survivor. Airborne barbed wire slices and dices an unfortunate wretch. There's more, all of it over the top gruesome, but you get the idea. As people drop off one by one Conrad enlists the assistance of Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), who now rents a room at the local mental motel, to help discover a way out of this mess. Mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd) once again turns up to offer a few sage nuggets of advice.
"Final Destination 2" gets five stars from this reviewer. Because the performances are Oscar worthy? Nope. Because I appreciated Ali Larter's character shrieking something about "death's design" every five seconds? Nope again. Because I thought the stereotyped characters (the angry black guy, the stuck up snob, the stoner) were original in any way, shape, or form? Again, not a chance. I think "Final Destination 2" deserves the five star treatment because it seems like ages since I've seen gore like this in an American theatrical release. The gorehound inside me howled at the moon in pleasure after witnessing the grim atrocities unfolding with methodical precision in this film. That highway accident was nothing short of breathtaking, even if parts of it were heavy with CGI effects. Explosions, screams, cars and trucks flying through the air, and a huge piece of timber rocketing through a windshield make this series of scenes the feel good moment of the decade. You just don't see stuff like this nowadays. When you couple this opening sequence with the other gory kills in the movie, you get a film that is required viewing for sauce lovers the world over.
Check out the extras! Trailers, deleted scenes, commentary tracks, and plenty of documentary pieces will keep you busy long after the credits roll. One documentary talks about near death experiences (!), while another employs a scientist to hook up three viewers to a machine that monitors their reactions to the movie. Fun stuff. While I won't say "Final Destination 2" is a movie the whole family can enjoy, I liked it enough to watch again. And again. And again. Let's hope the third installment ramps up the gory special effects even higher.
Summary of Final Destination 2
A.J. Cook (Actor), Ali Larter (Actor), David R. Ellis (Director), Michelle Palmer (Director) | Rated: R |
- # DVD Release Date: July 22, 2003
- # Run Time: 91 minutes
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