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Summary: FD2.....a must see chiller!!
Review: I saw this movie movie at a special screening in Canada, and it is even better than the first.Tony Todd has a 5-minute cameo, and I must say the ending is very well-done. I felt so happy when that annoying Johnathan Cherry got it, and the car accident part is very action-packed.The body count and gore is a little higher than in the first movie.I also liked when there is sort of homage to the first movie. Ali Larter is back along with A.J Cook , Michael Landes, and Andrew Downing. Go see it January 31!!
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Summary: Final Destination 2 Goes Nowhere But Down
Review: After seeing a rough cut of the film, I am thoroughly convinced that no amount of editing can save this movie from the typical "sophomore jinx" of a horror flick. Where is Devon Sawa? He is nowhere to be found in this film, with just a brief explanation that he died in between the two movies (damn falling bricks). The new lead character A.J. Cook doesn't do a horrible job, and Ali Larter is as good as ever (although somewhere along the line, she turns into a prophet for this movie), but Devon's absence makes this story feel "detached", and Sean William Scott's humor is sorely missed. The hype surrounding the return of Tony Tod is just hype, as his screentime in the movie is only a brief cameo, just like the original.Instead of a plane crash, this movie evolves around a car crash. But from there on, it does little more than copy the original,and some of the mysteries surrounding the first film, and left unexplained in the sequel. And the death scenes are even more ludicrous this time around... I won't spoil the ending, but I will admit it is a little better than the glued-on ending of the first film. Overall, I would not reccomend this movie! Stick with "The Exorcist"!
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Summary: A little better
Review: And a little more fun that Part 1. That's the best I can say about it. Grab this at a bargain price if you can. That's the way to go.
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Summary: Not your standard teen slasher
Review: From an orchestrated car pile-up that puts just about any action movies of the last 4 years to shame to an increasingly creative and surprising casualty list, Final Destination 2 just plain outdistances the genre's competiton. FD2 is not blessed with a decent plot that does not see our clavacade of victims simply run upstairs to be slaughtered by axe or chainsaw. Instead, viewers will find themselves gasping at the different, and in some cases, highly unorthodox manner death is visited upon the characters. Although it's never going to be a film classic, FD2 has carved out a niche as a very creative, well above-par horror/suspense movie that plays by no rules but it's own. 5 stars for being just what it is--a scary movie.
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Summary: Detail to marvel at...
Review: This movie has the absolute best opening (ok, 10 minutes into it) sequence with a traffic accident to... um... die for. The incredible detail and horrific images put you uncomfortably close to such an experience. But why 4 stars? 'Cause ya know what's gonna happen... The plot is laid out for you regarding each character getting picked off. If you're a horror or suspense fan who enjoys special effects and a gruesome, yet eerily possible subject matter - I would recommend this flick.
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Summary: The night my number came up
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Death is back and still smarting from the trouble caused by the Mt. Abraham high school students who, in FINAL DESTINATION (2000), refused to board a plane destined to blow up with them aboard. One teen's opportune vision brought them a temporary reprieve. But within days they started dying in freak accidents, because it's not nice to fool the Grim Reaper.
This time out, level-headed teenager Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) has her precognitive on a highway on-ramp. She ses a log tumble from the back of a flatbed truck, setting off a chain reaction that claims the lives of several motorists, including buff lottery winner Evan (David Paetkau); harried Nora Carpenter (Lynda Boyd) and her teenage son, Tim (James Kirk); highway patrolman Burke (Michael Landes) coked-up slacker Rory (Jonathan Cherry); schoolteacher Eugene Dix (T.C. Carson) and corporate cupcake Kat (Keegan Connor Tracy). Kimberly freezes behind the wheel of her SUV, trapping a line of cars behind her on the ramp; as they honk their horns impatiently, the horrific accident unfolds just as she envisioned. Burke gathers the stunned survivors at the police station, where Kimberly sobs out the story of her premonition. But despite their brush with death, no one thinks there's anything to it until Evan dies later that day, in a gory mishap involving a malfunctioning garbage disposal, an exploding microwave AND a fire-escape ladder that slips at a most inopportune moment. They look to Kimberly for advice; she in turn seeks out Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the sole survivor of the Mt. Abraham incident. Granted, Clear is hiding out in a padded cell, but she's beaten death for more than a year, so maybe she knows something. As a pool of survivors dwindles gorily, Clear and Kimberly try to figure out a way to beat Death's fearful symmetry forever.
Like its popular predecessor, this could well be the bloodiest, most grotesque public service announcement of all time. Fish tanks leaking in perilous proximity to electrical outlets, kitchen fire, balky elevador-door bumpers, exploding air bags and flying barbed wire--just when you think you've imagined the worst, the filmmakers one-up you. But the formula is so rigid that no matter how clever the variations, they're still fundamentally predictable: Any charactor around long enough to acquire a name is bound to wind up resting in pieces. If this is your idea of fun, step right up.
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Summary: the 1st is better
Review: the original one is better because the acting wasnt as dump for instance when the gilr ducks and says did you see that- cop- see what- pigeons! theyr gunna be killed by pigeons! wtf is that pigeons ? why not crows or seagulls i mean if im ever killed by a pigeon then what the hell iv never herd of pigeons doing that but other then the actong the movie is alright
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Summary: Edge of your seat thrill ride and a great DVD!
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A year later after the events of Alex Brown's deal with death, a young girl ( Ali Larter) has similar psychic powers like Browns's of predicting death before it comes, she joins up with eight survivors whom escaped from a freak accident on a highway. Only she with the survivors must come up with a plan to cheat death ( a.k.a. the Grim Reaper) before it's too late for all of them.
This sequel to the instant horror hit of 2000 is probably even more better than the original. It's got plenty of shocks and creative death scenes smothered in gore and accident scenes that are very much realistic, literally killer special effects, good acting, a well done storyline and heck, even Tony Todd The Candyman himself from the original Final Destination returns as the mortician whom knows how to conquer death.
The DVD is sensational for being a New Line Infitfilm series edition! what makes the DVD great is not only it's awesome transfer with mind-blowing sound but it's unique extras of infitfilm that you can play while the movie is on with pop-up behind the scenes stuff on how they made the film, audio commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes including on test subjects to study the effects on what the film might do to their shock factors and trailers.
This DVD is a must own for all horror fans and gorehounds out there, it's totally one of the most brutal horror movies in recent memory and not for the faint hearted or politically correct.
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Summary: Overflowing with grue
Review: 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.
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Summary: Not mine, it's copied from the Metro
Review: I didn't write this but I found it so funny and I agree whole-heartedly, couldn't have put it better myself
'We're all going to die, aren't we?' trembles Final Destination 2's heroine Kimberly Corman (AJ Cook). Oh yeah, baby! is inevitably the answer. But what makes this budding horror franchise stick in your mind is the outrageous variety of ways its characters pop their Nikes. Plot wise, it's a carbon copy of FD1 with double the body count - nervy teen has premonition of disaster (in this case, a motorway pileup) thus saving a random clutch of lives, only to find that by 'cheating death's design' she's severely narked off the forces of fate. Story, suspense and character development are all joyously tossed out the window to go squish on the sidewalk. What's left is a sadistically entertaining guessing game as to whether prosthetic hook, dental gas, chip pan, pigeon (or jolly combination of them all) is going to carry off fate's next victim. Best known for 30 years as a veteran stuntman, director David R Ellis' movie is definitely more smasher than slasher, so don't expect any subtlety: here, Death does not so much point his finger as hammer it through your face with a log.
Written by Larushka Ivan-Zadeh for Metro.
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