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Summary: Just Another Sequel Made To Make Money
Review: Final Destination was a huge hit because it had a cool cast and a solid storyline that made sense. For those of you who have seen Final Destination you'll know it was left on a huge cliffhanger with Dawson's Creek star Kerr Smith about to be splattered by a huge sign falling from the sky. I haven't actually seen FD2 but from what I've heard and seen in the trailer it just looks like a boring sequel made for money. For starters a huge drawback is that Devon Sawa (the main/surviving star of Final Destionation) isn't in the sequel. He doesn't make even make a cameo! All we are told is he died between FD1 and FD2! But co-main star Ali Larter who was also in FD1 is back. Personally I'll wait till it comes out on video to rent instead of wasting money at the cinema. Sadly I believe Final Destination 2 will become one of those stupid sequels that suddenly dissapear from existence like American Physco 2 and Cruel Intentions 2.
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Summary: More fun with elaborate death.
Review: It's odd, but, though I didn't take the film all that seriously, I liked the sense of humor and suspense in the original "Final Destination" and mostly enjoyed that film because of its overly elaborate death scenes. With the sequel, I enjoyed it as such and as much. I didn't go in expecting to identify with the characters as anything more than types. I didn't allow myself to become particularly attached to any of them. I didn't even think the plot should make sense - for it's impossible to "cheat death" for any of these characters. They can delay it, but they're all going to die anyway. What's fun about both movies is the machinations of the deaths. One person in the film is inadvertantly killed by pigeons. One by a flying barbed wire fence. Another manages to escape a trash disposal accident, a fire, a separate microwave explosion and a fall - only to be done in by a safety device. "Final Destination 2" is way bloodier than the first film. It makes far less sense, but it doesn't really need to do that to be effective. The ending of the sequel feels less tacked on than the original film's ending. All in all, I enjoyed myself immensely in a theater full of screaming teens. It's sick fun. Revel in it.
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Summary: Final Destination 2- GREAT MOVIE
Review: This sequel is a great sitting on-the-edge of your seat thriller. There's this gripping horror at every turn and each death is just as horrific as the last. I recommend this movie for all you gore and suspense lovers! The actors do a terrific job! Unlike most sequeals, it's better than the first. I LOVED this movie.
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Summary: pure fun!
Review: Don't get me wrong, I usually steer clear of this kind of thing.
But I went to see this with a couple friends, and I must say, while not a masterpiece, this is a very entertaining movie. The characters aren't that chichéd compared to many mainstream teen death movies, and the cast (AJ Cook is the main character) is quite good. The premise is interesting... Kimberly is about to go on a road trip with 3 friends when she sees a premonition of a HUGE auto pileup involving her and a bunch of other motorists. So, instead of going on as planned, Kimberly blocks the ramp with her SUV, making passage impossible for the people who would've died in the accident. Sure enough, theres a huge accident....but those who were supposed to die in the crash have a (very gory) debt to pay to Death.
The film is so tongue-in-cheek its hard not to have a good time.
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Summary: As horrifying as an Apple iMac !
Review: Imagine if you will, a world quite similar to, but not quite ours. A world where girls say goodbye to, and later become friends, by flipping each other off. A world where (thanks to an obscene amount of product placement) everyone uses an Apple computer and there's not a PC in sight. Imagine a world where some nutcase can block an entire stretch of a freeway and people are generally ok about it. This is the world of, and the setting for, the largely uninspired sequel, Final Destination 2. A.J. Cook is the latest visionary in this second chapter that, for the most part, is identical to the original movie. Instead of an airline explosion, she witnesses the most horrific freeway pileup since, well, an episode of CHiPs. In her quest to protect her friends, and the people behind her, she decides to block a freeway onramp with her SUV. If you see it, you'll note she doesn't do a very good job, but amazingly, no gun battles break out. Carson Daly lookalike Michael Landes plays a cop who befriends the stricken teenager and finds that he was somehow involved in the life of one of the teenagers killed in the first movie. In fact, all of the characters were somehow tied into the first movie and a 15 minute stretch of film is spent explaining this unnecessary fact. I certainly hope there isn't a Final Destination 3 or else it'll take half the movie to explain everything. The attractive Ali Landry returns to play a nutcase locked up in a looney bin who decides at the snap (flip) of a finger to become sane and somehow get released to help the two solve the mystery. Director David Ellis avoids the unexpected and instead rewards viewers with graphic squishings, impalements, decapitations, and explosions. If blood and guts horror is your thing, you'll be happy to know that Death gets messy when he's mad. The acting all around is mediocre but acceptable. The main problem I had with this movie (and the first, actually) is after the initial crop of survivors is established, it becomes a waiting game for the next hour. You know everyone's gonna die, you're just watching the body count add up one-by-one until the finale. Like the first, Ellis tries to spice things up with a lot of close calls, but there's nothing that will make you jump out of your seat. Of course the ending contains the "just when you think it's over" finale. Let's just say the ending in this movie is bad, and I mean schlocky drive-in horror movie bad. Final Destination 2 is a brainless, but still watchable addition to the sick-funny horror movie bandwagon. It may not make you buy an Apple, but you'll probably be more sympathetic to the next wacko blocking your entrance on to the freeway.
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Summary: Almost Perfect Sequel
Review: Audiences that saw Final Destination back in March 17th 2000 were in for a great surprise when a movie that followed the release of Scream 3, the supposed "nail in the coffin" for the horror genre, came out of nowhere and put the terror back into the cinema. Since it's release and the Sept. 11th tragedy, there has been a major lack of horror films. While movies like The Signs and The Ring did big business at the box office, Jason X and the embarassingly bad Halloween: Resurrection failed to resurrect anything. The days of slash and splat seemed to be a thing of the past. That is until now. Three years later, the highly anticipated sequel Final Destination 2 is here. The story is pretty similiar to that of the first and is set exactly one year after the "Flight 180" tragedy. This time around our main character is a female named Kimberly (A.J. Cook) who's going on a road trip with her friends. While on the interstate highway she has a premonition about a major accident that would kill everyone on the road. Snapping back to reality she ignores her friends pleas to continue driving and places her car in an area that will keep the wreck from happening. She succeeds, but ends up stalling traffic causing several vehicles to be stuck behind her; one of them being a cop car. Officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) asks her to step out of her car and explain what's going on. Everyone begins honking their horns like crazy as she gets out and tells him what she saw. Seconds later a giant semi truck speeds by and smashes into her car, killing all of her friends. The survivors think they're lucky cheating death, but as time goes by and they begin to die one by one, Kimberly knows that death has a new design and it isn't done with them yet. The accident scene is worth the price of admission alone. It's horrifyingly realistic and brutally gruesome showing what can happen when people drink and goof off while driving, don't pay attention, etc. The rest of the film plays out as expected which is the reason why I gave this movie only 4 stars. In the original movie, no one knew what to expect or that death was gonna come back at them in terrifyingly clever ways, but with the sequel you do expect it. However, the makers of the film have many surprises in store and you have to see it to believe it. None of the death scenes in this movie are as surprising as Terry's (Amanda Detmer) hit by the bus scene in the original, but instead of pulling away the camera like they did, this movie delivers it's shock value with it's amount of gore. FD2 revels in it's own disgust and bloodshed using every chance it can get to let "death" slice, dice, cook, drop, smash, burn, stab, slam, impale and totally annihilate it's survivors. The characters in this chapter are more colorful and fun to watch unlike the humorless waiting to be picked off stiffs in the first movie who were fun to laugh at instead of laugh with. There's more diversity and the cast exudes a charm that makes their characters instantly likable. The death scenes are a hundred times more elaborate and vicious. The movie delves deeper into the "death" mystery and how you can stop it instead of just avoiding it. Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the only survivor of the first movie, returns to aide Kimberly who seeks out her help visiting her at a mental institution. They explain why Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) didn't return. And uber creepy mortician William 'Bill' Bludworth makes yet another cameo further explaining how death works. There are a couple things not so great about the movie. AJ Cook seems to show alot of promise in the future, but doesn't quite deliver this time around playing our film's heroine. However, the supporting cast is so great and there's so much action that you're almost too distracted to tell that she seems to not care that people all around her are being sliced, diced, cooked... you get the picture. She could have done a better job, but I did like her. Another problem is that the movie has some subtly issues. The first movie was quieter and more story driven and when there was a scare, it was REALLY scary. This movie is so loud and fast paced that the scares aren't very scary, they're just sick. And what's with the tranchula on Kimberly's shoulder at the beginning of the movie? All in all this is an excellant movie that I will see again asap. It's definitely a great sequel and I think all of the fans who liked the first will love this. It's loud, violent, twisted and the biggest rush I've had at the movies since the original. A promising sign of how good it is, is when the movie was over, you could hear everyone gasping and laughing nervously.
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Summary: WARNING!
Review: NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! Remember FD1? (If not, it's almost essential to see #1 first.) But do not be lulled into a false sense of security by #1's tameness. "FD2" MAKES "SAVING PRIVATE RYAN" LOOK LIKE "CARE BEARS." I have no idea how I will erase the gruesome images from my mind ever.
But how good of a horror movie is it? EXCELENT! Maybe better than #1! If you have a strong stomach, (and it helps to have a sick side to your humor), this is a must see. Just no kids, seriously.
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Summary: Really good sequel
Review: I really enjoyed the first final destination,and anticipated the second.I will admit there was a little more of a storyline in 1,but this one made up for that with the action.There are some really cool death scenes,much more gorey than the first.And I liked the way it connected with part one,you dont always see that in sequels.I thought overall this was an enjoyable movie,if you liked the 1st you should like this one as well.
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Summary: actually saw the whole film.......
Review: this film is great. From the first disturbing scene of a massive car crash to the final "there's-gonna-be-another-sequel" gory ending,... The movie moves a whole lot faster than the first one, and although the deaths are a little less believable than the first film, they are shot with great quality.
The only downpoint to this movie is that the plot was alittle thinner than the first movie. After seeing the first 20 minutes of the movie (which are incredibly action-filled)i was afraid that the typical less-plot/more-gore formaula was used, but i was pleasantly surprised to see that not happen. the only thing i can recommend is that you watch the alternate-ending (availible on the Final destination DVD) of the first movie before you see this one. It will help to clear up the somewhat confusing ending of this movie. One final thing: Another reviewer said that she saw an advanced copy of this film and that one of the characters dies from "helicopter blades". I don't know what movie she was watching, because nothing like that happens in this film. Perhaps, she should see the final product before making her decision. Either way, i think this is the best movie i've seen since "the ring".
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Summary: The First Must See Movie of 2003
Review: I just got back from the theatre and I must say this is a truely brilliant movie. Any of you who were a fan of the first Final Destination will absolutely love this one. The death scenes have a lot more blood and the traffic scene is definitly better than the original's airplane. So go see this movie whenever you get the chance. It's for anyone who's in for a good scare or chill.
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