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Summary: Interesting cinematography...
Review: Final Destination 2 is a sequel which is a pretty dreadful story compared to the original. Here, the characters are sent into a similar "accidents" as in the first film, however, there are some sizeable gaps in the story that defeat the cinematic experience. What saves this film is the interesting cinematography. For example, the introduction displays superb camera work.
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Summary: Great fun for horror fans!
Review: This is a great DVD for splatter film fans who have a sense of humour. It's no classic, but in a time when most studio horror films are bland teen/twentysomething slasher flicks or bloated, soulless CGI extravaganzas, this one stands out from the crowd. This film unashamedly sets out to scare and gross out its audience with a collection of gory setpieces that are sometimes reminiscent of an Itchy And Scratchy cartoon. The filmmakers obviously had a blast making this film and the fun they had really shines through onscreen. Okay, so it may sound weird to some who are reading this that I'm using the word "fun" in relation to a film that features so much violence and death...but longtime horror fans and gorehounds will appreciate what I'm saying. It still resembles a glossy studio film, but has that old drive-in horror movie sensibility that really appeals to me.The extras are terrific. The usual behind-the-scenes/deleted scenes stuff, a fun card game, etc. My favourites are the documentary about gore in horror films and test subjects reactions to scenes from FD2. Good to see the twisted fun of the film carries over into the special features!
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Summary: Far better sequel than I had expected!
Review: I didn't have great hopes for this film but I was mildly, and pleasantly surprised. I had expected the first movie, repeated. Admittedly, on the face of it, that is what you get. But FD2 takes things a step further by showing that the events of the second film take place because of the events of the first film. They are connected far more deeply than simply being "another batch of people that escape death". The effects are well done and striking, as in the first movie, this time focusing on a road accident rather than an air crash. And, of course, death's efforts to "put things right" by offing those that escaped the road accident are the usual level of weird and seemingly impossible twists of chance that we grew used to in the first movie. Although I welcomed the plot development, linking this movie to the first one, the whole movie was never scary, as such. It's plenty gruesome enough (see the barbed wire scene, for example), but not very frightening. After some thought, I think this is in part due to the fact that I have recently been watching the series "Dead Like Me". Every time in the movie that things seemed to take on a life of their own, I was imagining Gravelings prodding and tinkering. It kind of ruined any suspense that might have been in the moment. However, the movie is a worthy sequel to the first. Not necessarily better, just worthy of the name. Again this is mostly due to the fact that it progressed the story a little, rather than simply cashing in on the first's success. If you liked the first movie, this one won't disappoint.
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Summary: Gruesome Death Scenes = Good Time at the Movies
Review: Final Destination 2 is a good time! The plot may be a little thin at times, but the action scenes make up for all of that. This has some of the coolest death scenes you'll ever witness in a horror flick. Plenty of gore if you like that kind of thing. The car accident scene at the beginning is priceless. So if you'd like to see someone take a ladder in the eyes, get flattened by a sheet of glass, get sliced in three by a barbed wire fence, get decapitated by an elevator door, etc etc, then watch this flick for sure!
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Summary: Frankly - the most annoying movie I've ever seen
Review: I expected a lot of this movie. I expected BIG, and all I got was small. I gave it 1 star because of the death scenes, which were pretty gruesome. Besides this, it wouldn't even have deserved one single star. I didn't buy it but borrowed it in order to find out if it's worth purchasing.
It's not. I got the Final Destination DVD, because I love that movie. It's cool, entertaining and scary - all of which the sequel ain't. Predictability isn't always bad in movies, but to FD2 it was a killer. I don't necessarily mean it was predictable how they were gonna die. Yet, where the first movie was startling and surprising, the sequel only proved a boring copy, with actors so unbelievably stereotype and unreal I regret having struggled not to fall asleep.
As another rewiever put it, I also hope they're not gonna make a third movie - because FD2's senselessness and stupidity can hardly be beaten.
If you're really into that kind of movies, you might like it just the same. But trust me - I'm one of those people who get easily taken with all kinds of movies, especially being a fan of thrill/horror. FD2 I despised. They shouldn't have made a sequel. Final Destination was too good for a sequel.
Just unnecessary.
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Summary: Lots of bodies for your buck
Review: This movie gets kicking with a brilliant multi-vehicle pile-up scene where you get a first person perspective of several of the victim's predicaments. It doesn't slow down much after this, with one freak fatality following closely after another. The plot ties back to the original movie and the ripple effect created by the key characters avoiding death at that time. Overall, if you are looking for a decent 90 minutes of compelling entertainment you won't be too disappointed.
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Summary: Fans of the first will like...
Review: Ok ok ok now some people on other websites have given this movie a 2 or 3, but I will give it two thumbs up and 5 stars. I saw this movie before this one and then just last month I saw the 1st "Final Destination". I really enjoyed both films and I always will. This kovie is also the first movie to make me jump out of my seat and almost piss my pants. This movie was kinda' dull at some parts such as the start when A.J. Cook is just sitting down eating and watching the news about flight 180 from the 1st movie for about 10 minutes. And my favorite death would be after the kid runs out to the birds and the glass falls on hima and folds him into 3 pieces.
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Summary: Don't make this into a trilogy
Review: I loved the first Final Destination. I got the sequel for Christmas, and watched it almost straight away; eager to find out whether it was better or worse than the first one. (I know someone who HATED the first one, but liked the second, so I wasn't expecting to like it.) I've watched the first one quite a few times, so I practically know it off by heart, and sometimes even get sick of watching it. But the sequel - the deaths are gorier, bloodier, and every last possible death you can think of has been used. And talk about weird and unusual deaths. Forget being run over by a bus; forget being strangled in a bath. Those are old news. There's a lot more blood; the camera is focused more on the deaths, so you see what you least expect to see. I got the feeling that someone had been looking at those health & safety pictures, where you have to guess what the danger is in the picture, and then a light bulb went off above their heads. And boom, you have a film. The first Final Destination threw you right into the action, and you didn't know what was happening. With a sequel, you know what's going to happen, so you sit back and say, "bring it on". It took a few minutes for the film to get started, recapping the events of the first film, and then you sit up, jaw dropping. With the deaths being more imaginative and very, very, very graphic, you didn't know what was going to happen. You just knew a lot of the cast wouldn't be appearing in the next sequel. We find out in this film that Alex Browning (Devon Sawa - there's actually a very good lookalike in this!) has since died (a very mundane death) and left Clear (the brilliant Ali Larter) locked up voluntarily in a mental institution. Ali Larter is the only cast member left from the original and is up against a whole lot of unknowns, which most of the original cast were - and still are. It was great to see at least one original cast member back for more, rather than just start with a fresh new cast with no links to the previous film - but you'll have to watch the film for yourself to find out whether that's true or not. The premonitions are more realistic this time, and not a brief glimpse in a window, which none of the audience watching catches. This time, you have longer dream sequences (think the plane crash dream at the beginning of the previous film), and more drawn out premonitions, where you feel like you're in the premonition. This time round, you're trying to work out exactly what's going to happen before it happens on screen. This is your typical slasher movie, with a twist, and you'll find out how if you watch it - I thought this "twist" was great, and it made it all the more better. Ali Larter is a great actress, although . . . Nah, we won't go into that! There are two things I'm worried about - that the directors might decide to make a trilogy, which might not be a good thing, although they could go all out and bring back Devon Sawa. And the fact that the production designer is Michael Bolton . . .
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Summary: Grosser than the first and un-nerveingly funny
Review: Ok, so i rented this thinking it would be scary, but then I talked to my friend and he said you have to see one to get two. Not really true, but if your like me, and it'll just mess with your head to see two without seeing one, go ahead, get grossed out, watch one. Read my review for one, first. So it starts of with the dream, vision, what ever you wanna call it. Nothing extreme about the car crash. If the car crash scene scares you...TURN OFF THE MOVIE, if you can't stand the sight of watching a man burn and a guy being crushed by his motercycle, then your not gonna be able to stomach the rest of the movie. Back to real life, her friends are killed in the car crash, nothing really gorey about that. Then the guy thats next on the list, sticks his hand down the sink which has a garbage disposal and theres electrical problems, so your trying to prepair yourself for seeing his hand cut off, but thats just the sicko directors trying to scare you. So his apartment is burning, Blah blah blah. He esacpes, but long story short he ends up having the bottom of a fire escape go through his eye/head. You also get to see his body later, once the lader is taking out. This dude has nipple rings and in one of the deleted scenes, this one guy, pulls the ring out of his dead body, and the whole nipple comes with it. Charming. The next on the list is this son and his mother. Really gross. The son gets crushed/liquified by a pane of glass that falls on him. And the mother...I don't even want to remember this one. Her hair gets caught and long story short, her head gets stuck in an elevator while the rest of her is outside. She gets beheaded and her blood is all over these other two chicks. Then you have two back to back gross deaths, that happen suddenly, no time to even prepair yourself. A lady gets this huge pole through her head and a guy gets chopped not in half, but in thirds. Two people get burned alive, sizzling flesh again. And just when you think its all over, that there can be no more gross deaths, this poor kid, whos a little slow, gets blown up as he is cooking on the bbq. His burnt arm falls on his mothers plate. THE END. That's how they end the movie. I do have to admit, my dad and I were laughing at that point. They took it to extremes. The guy that got cut up, they showed his organs shooting out. Once again, something that my undigonsed, mentaly ill, fellow high school students could have come up with. Not a scary movie, Just extremely gorey. If you were looking for a scary movie without a ton of gore...this is SO NOT THE MOVIE FOR YOU.
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Summary: On a par with the original
Review: The original Final Destination was an interesting twist on the teen slasher flick: instead of some standard masked killer picking off people one by one, it was Death itself doing the job, an invisible but definitely intelligent presence who is unbeatable because it cannot be directly battled. As in the original movie, the sequel begins with a character having a premonition of a disaster and then avoiding it, saving her life and those of a few other people. Death, however, will not be cheated, and starts picking off the reprieved. Apparently, cause of death is important: if you were meant to die in an accident, you will not die of natural causes. Most of the movie is a series of killings and near-misses, with the cleverness coming in the way Death sets up the kills. If Rube Goldberg had been a serial killer, the contraptions he developed would have fit right into this film. Unlike the first movie, the characters are aware as to what is going on, having heard of the earlier story. It doesn't really help; the only vague help they get points to cheating Death by having a new life that was unplanned for come into the world. To me, the solution would be to have the male and female leads have a kid, but the film goes off in another direction. For what is basically a slasher flick, the violence itself is rather tame. The director seems to shy away from the gore, with the worst of the scenes almost flashing by. Instead, the focus is on suspense...we know these people are going to die (except maybe the main characters), we just don't know how or when. For fans of the first movie (which is the obvious audience of this film), this sequel should be an equally pleasing experience, and even if you have not seen the original, this one can be fun. While not a classic, Final Destination 2 is clever and entertaining enough to rate four stars.
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