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Summary: An Insult to the Value of Human Life
Review: I did not like this movie at all. The sheer level of cruelty with which the people were killed is amazing. I think the director was trying to make up for the lack of a decent story line (and a terrible ending) by making brutally explicit and unbelievably cruel deaths, with total disregard for the value of human life. The shock factor. I did manage to sit through the whole movie, but I was really quite disgusted with the director trying to sell the movie through shock factor alone.On the bright side, you can sort of tell that a lot of money was spent on the film. But each death in the movie was done in such a cruel and shocking manner that I was simply disgusted with the movie. Note that the movie portrays charismatic actors in the role of using illegal drugs, so it is important to note the R rating and not allow your kids to watch this, unless you want them to think that taking drugs is ok and cool. Overall, there were a hand full of spots in the movie which were actually decent and interesting, but overall, the storyline was not so good, and the ending was really [weak], and the director relied on shock factor (by having the most cruel forms of death possible) in pushing the movie. ...
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Summary: Best Movie sequal EVER
Review: I thought Final Destination was one of the best movies that I had ever seen...until I saw Final Destination 2 which, if you can believe it, was even better than the first one! It constantly has you on the edge of your seat and just when you think it is not possible, it gets better!
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Summary: One of the best sequels I have seen in awhile!
Review: This movie was one of the best sequels I have seen in a while. Final Destionation doesn't have the best acting, but it has the best gore! This movie was thrilling and disgustingly [yucky]! The plot wasn't exactly better, and I didn't like the fact the (Devon Sawa, main character in Final Destination) dies in between the two movies. I can't wait for hopefully the third installment which there should be, and there is many rumors that there will be! This is one of the best horror flicks since 28 days Later, and The Ring. 3 1/2 stars!!
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Summary: Death Waits For No One
Review: It's very rare when a sequel is just as good, or better, than the original film. Especially in the horror/thriller genre. This film, a sequel to the smash 2000 hit, improves on the first film by a wide margin. This entry in the series seems deadlier, colder, more intense, and more death-like. It features great special effects, and gory demises that will please any fan who is into that. What I like about this one is how it doesn't ignore the first film. There are connections to it throughout the entire film. Plus, Ali Larter returns as Clear Rivers, one of the first film's survivors. It's the one year anniversary of the flight 180 tragedy from the first film. Kimberly(A.J. Cook), an attractive teen, is preparing for a road trip to Daytona Beach with some friends. While on the highway, Kimberly begins having odd, prophetic visions. A horrible accident breaks out on the highway and it ends with a horrible pile up. These next few minutes are incredibly wicked. Intense, scary, and pulse pounding. An incredibly well executed scene. It turns out to of been an premonition, but things begin to turn out how she saw them. The pile up occurs, but she and a handful of others who were meant to die, survive. Now, just as in the first, they have caused a rift in death's design. Helped by Officer Thomas Burke(Michael Landes), Kimberly tries to find out what is going on and to try to save herself and the other people who are on death's hit list. To help, she turns to Clear Rivers, the only one who has been thru this before. The six other people include a mother and son, a business woman on the rise, a stoner, a kid who just won the lotto, and a motorcyclist named Eugene. The filmmakers here took what they did in the original and built on it. The effects are more top notch, the make-up and horror is even better, and the whole game is deadlier. Director David Ellis really delivers the chills and fun of the whole thing. He takes you inside the moment and makes you feel every chill that runs up your spine whenver disaster looms. Some of the direction into the suspense is clever and really brings you into the whole action. The script is solid and clever and fun. Not everyone is as good as the script wants them to be, but they all get the job done. The script has a nice dose of sense of humor that perfectly balances itself between when it should be humorous and when it shouldn't be. There have been many films in the post-"Scream" era that have tried to mix the humor with the terror, and it hasn't worked. This one does. It just fits naturally. The actors are pretty solid, if not overly spectacular. Ali Larter looks great, but it seems like she was wasted too much. What a pity. A.J. Cook does better than her and she is a lovely looking thing to boot. People might remember Michael Landes as Jimmy Olson from the first season of "Lois And Clark", or the short lived series "Special Unit 2". Tony Todd("Candyman"), makes a return cameo as the creepy mortician as well. This isn't Oscar type stuff, but it is what it is and it definitley delivers the goods in full force. It's incredibly fun and entertaining. One thing is for sure tho. It will definitley have you on the alert once it's over.
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Summary: Every bit as good as the first.......but MORE!
Review: LOVED it~
Action packed, believable gore, and making me keep backing up to see certain scenes again.....even though it was my first time seeing it! I went to the rental store to get it, thinking I was going to rent it because I never saw it, then strolling through the store and discovering they had it for sale. Bought it sight unseen! I am soooo happy I did! If you loved the first one, see the second one!
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Summary: Review
Review: Being a huge fan of the first film I was looking forward to watching the sequel. The premise of the original placed a clever tone on the horror genre, however Final Destination 2 failed to capture, much less exceed the its predecessor. A good sequel should take the story farther than the original. This movie placed more focus on finding inventive ways to off the characters rather than develop and enganging and suspensful story. Don't get me wrong, some of the deaths were inventive but the film for lack of a better word lacked gusto. The first film took time in displaying the death's design, the sequel on the other hand showed the design early on (and it was predictable), so the only thing you had to look forward to was not who was going to die/of if they could find a way to escape, but rather how they were going to die (or how horribly they were going to die). Gore has its place, but alone it makes a movie rather empty. This movie is fun to watch, but if you are intending to find something more engaging you may want to watch something else.
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Summary: Not as good as the original and little more outlandish
Review: I loved the original Final Destination so I was naturally interested in how the sequel was going to turn out (interested enough to wait for it on video anyway). As I had expected, it wasn't as good as its predecessor, but in its own right, Final Destination 2 was entertaining at most. There are good things to say about this movie, but an equal number of bad things are to be said as well. First off, the opening death scene with the massive multiple car accident was just a wicked scene. My friends and me both watched with mouths and eyelids wide open. That scene was equally as good as the Flight 180 scene in the first. The following death scenes throughout the movie were all pretty good and left you on edge. I'd say the deaths in FD2 were much more elaborate, violent and more creative than those in the first. Besides that, I thought the plotline of the film started to get outlandish and muddy after the whole "Only life can stop death with the baby that was never to be born becuase her mother was supposed to be killed before its birth" .... And it seemed really funny to me when the characters would simply come up with complicated methods of surviving death after having a premonition. Overall, I thought it was a good entertaining and bloody movie, but it's outlandish story just makes the whole thing seem rather silly.
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Summary: Death stalks fresh teenages on the Highway to Hell
Review: As a horror film sequel, one of the great graveyards in the realm of cinema, "Final Destination 2" holds up pretty well. Of course when you basis of comparison are to revisionist films like "Halloween 2" and "Friday the 13th Part 2" along with films that have no conception of what worked in the original like "The Exorcist II: The Heretic" and "A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge," the bar is set pretty low. The sequel to "The Blair Witch Project" had a good idea, but botched what to do with it. The makers of "Final Destination 2" had enough sense to take what worked in the original and give it a slight twist. On the first anniversary of Flight 180 there is the most horrible chain of highway accidents in the history of movies. Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) is the last to die and then suddenly realizes it was all an instantaneous premonition. Like the hero of the first film she is able to find confirmation that she has a glimpse of what is about to happen within arm's reach. She takes direct action to spare the lives she had just seen lost and round two of this particular dance with death is underway. On the one hand all you really need to know is that if you liked the original "Final Destination" you will not be grossly disappointed by the sequel. Once again you have Death coming after the people on his list by channeling the spirit of Rube Goldberg. This sequel plays with its audience by constantly making you think you know exactly how the next victim is going to kick the bucket and then pulling a last second switch. The other difference of substance has to do with the relationship between this final and the original, which turns out to be something more than the return of Clear Rivers (Ali Larter). However, the biggest difference is that this time around the characters are hip to the constant foreshadowing that presages each gruesome demise (Death is apparently a frustrated movie director). You could say this is going too far in changing the rules of the game and off the top of my head I do not remember if there was as much foreshadowing as in the original. A return visit to the creepy guy at the morgue reveals a new bit of information that comes under the "Something I would have liked to have known earlier" (like in the first film) category. But if the alternative is rehashing the original film with a new set of exercises in creative killing, then these new wrinkles are acceptable twists. "Final Destination 2" is not as much fun as the original, which is par for the course, but it is not an insult to the audience that liked the first film either. You also have all the fun Infinifilm options on the DVD so that you can understand the meaning of every name in the film (e.g., Kimberly CORMAN as in Roger Corman, director of "Dementia 13" and other classic cheapo exploitation splatter flicks). Final Note: "Final Destination 2" meets my definition of gratuitous nudity, which is when the half-naked person is not one of the main characters but somebody who shows up just to provide the nudity (compare this with "Laurel Canyon" as an example of non-gratuitous flashing).
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Summary: Much more gore than the original....
Review: I was hoping that Devon Sowa (Alex?) would have a return role in the sequel, as the original movie revolved around him...but they ended up killing him off and kept Clear Rivers alive instead...that kind of disappointed me. I just personally thought that he was more important to the story than she was. I thought the coincidences of all the characters in part 2 having a weird 'cosmic like' connection with the victims in the original was more unbelievable than the story line of the original movie to begin with...but I guess without that, this movie couldn't have been considered a sequel at all. I also thought the character developement in the first movie was much better than in this one. The death scenes are much more ellaborate and gruesome in this movie than in the original, so if gore is your thing, this is one movie you wont want to miss.
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Summary: My Premonition - Get Ready For Cult Status!!!
Review: I kept trying to figure out WHY I enjoyed this movie so much, and it finally hit me...I liked, understood and identified with all these people. A clever and ironic script mixed with some strong performances, particulary from A.J. Cook, Lynda Boyd and Jonathan Cherry make this a "must have" for every horror buff. These characters aren't some loser teens waiting to see who dies first, they are fully fleshed out and scared to death as creepy "accidents" snuff them out. The opening freeway scene still takes my breath away, even after seeing the "tricks" through Infinifilm. The characters react to each other just like you'd expect vulnerable, scared people thrown together to act. Excellent effort, holds up well to repeat viewings. By the way, Infinifilm is AWESOME!!! New Line has scored a home run with this feature. The pop ups are sweet!! Just when I'm thinking "How'd they do that?", I can find out by automatically pausing the movie at the exact scene. Home Run! So why not 5 stars? Two reasons: First the conversation scene on the way to the hospital linking the movie to FD1. It's not needed and far too "Zen". Secondly, the final scene of the movie. It seems silly and sophmoric, and out of place with the overall tone of the film. Solid effort, better than expected acting and INCREDIBLE FX make this one heck of a destination to reach!
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