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Review of Final Destination 2
- This summer, fasten your seatbelts for the ultimate rollercoaster!! Packed with cutting-edge special effects, state-of-the-art gore and enough scares to send your heartbeat into overdrive, Final Destination 2 is a killer sequel to the smash-hit original.
DVD Features:
3D Animated Menus
Audio Commentary:with Director David Ellis, Producer Craig Perry and Screenwriters Eric Bress & J. Mackye Gruber
DVD ROM Features:Play Movie Script-to-screen Link to original website Screensaver, Wallpapers, "Chain Reaction" activity Exclusive content at infinifilm.com
Deleted Scenes
Documentaries:"The Terror Gauge" "Cheating Death: Beyond & Back" "Bits & Pieces: Bringing Death to Life"
Extended takes
Full Screen Version:and also Widescreen version on one disc
Other:DTS ES 6.1 Surround Sound Exclusive infinifilm fact track with exclusive material Trailers for the orginal Final Destination and upcoming Highwaymen Widescreen & Fullscreen on one disc
Theatrical Trailer
Description
- Final Destination 2 begins with a well-orchestrated multicar pileup on a freeway--a horrifying accident that turns out to be a premonition, as seen by a young woman (A.J. Cook) who saves herself and several other people by blocking a freeway on-ramp. Thus, as in the first Final Destination, a prescient vision disrupts the destined plans of death, and death goes to extreme lengths to correct matters. What makes Final Destination 2 entertaining is that the characters can only survive by learning to recognize the signs of impending doom--and the signs are basically the cinematic foreshadowing that moviemakers use to invoke suspense. This, combined with some elaborately complicated and gruesome deaths, fosters a ghoulish humor that's more entertaining than the smirky self-referentiality of Scream. Final Destination 2 doesn't aspire to be a great movie, but trash has its pleasures. Also featuring Ali Larter as the only survivor of the first movie. --Bret Fetzer
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Comments for Final Destination 2
- Posted on 2008-05-01
know death warned them
another great and realistic FD movie wow this was great i like movies that are more relistic then any other movie this was shocking and thrilling and thats what i loved about FD. I saw all the FD movies and all three of them were great a very breat takeing suspence great movie.
Score: 5
- Posted on 2008-04-02
Good non horror sequel
Final Destination 2 proved something that most horror film sequels can't. If a scary movie sequel is full of laughs it can be fun. The film is full of good acting in particular A.J. Cook who carrys her first starring role very well. Tony Todd makes another chilling cameo and Ali Larter also does another good job. I hope this isn't the last Destination for the series. I give it *** stars based soley on the death sequences. The film is lot of fun and I can't wait to see Final Destination 4 in 3-D next year.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2008-01-18
You can't stop death's design
The basic theme of the movie of the whole final destination franchise remains the same. The concept that death is an unstoppable force and inevitable law of nature, is well known to us but the final destination franchise brought to us in a big hollywood motion picture environment, the concept that if the plan of death is altered then death corrects itself by creating random and freakish circumstances to get those persons anyway who were doomed in the first place. All three final destination films play on the theme that if you mess with the plan of death then a very gruesome death is anyway inevitably in store for you. When it comes to final destination, it is more useful to compare all three movies in the franchise. In 2, the director is not the same as 1 and 3. But 2 is pretty dramatic of all the 3 movies but it lacks a strong and convincing ending. In all three films the plot idea is that there is a first act pivotal piece scene, where a permonition by a lead character saves the lives of people who were to meet certain death. Now these people who escaped death will now die in the exact order in which they would have died in the first place if Death's initial plan had not be altered. In 1 this pivotal scene was an airplane explosion, in 2 it is an amazing and very convincingly shot freeway pile up and in 3 it is a very realistic looking rollercoaster mishap. For the initial first act, of all three films I feel the freeway pileup in 2 was the most intense and convincing start out of all three films in the franchise. From a standpoint of gore, I would say number 3 had the most realistic looking bloodfest. From a standpoint of originality, 1 was the freshest being the first in the series. Final destination 2 had the basic weakness in its ending in trying to make the main characters survive, they came up with this unbelievable idea that new life cancels out the need for death to take life. This plot idea is inserted to give a good ending to 2. But the strongest movie of the franchise in terms of the original concept of final destination and which works is movie 3 because its gives the message we got in 1 that you cannot escape death. 3 has a number of set piece scene sequences. The roller coaster mishap, a festival fireworks display gone wrong and a final amazing metro train crash. In summing it up Movie 3 is better than movie 2 is better than movie 1. After 1, we all know the franchise plot, we know they will all die one by one, but the fun in the series is that given a set of props on the scene, we are kept guessing which freaky set of circumstance and permutations is going to mutate itself into creating a noose for one of our characters.
regards, Vikram
Score: 5 - Posted on 2008-01-03
Final Destination 2
My Daughter wanted this for Christmas and she was tickled that I got it for her. But most of all I was amazed on the delivery time that it took for me to receive it. I ordered it on a Sunday night and I had it By Wednesday afternoon. Thanks so much.
Score: 5 - Posted on 2007-12-20
Another bland Hollywood sequel.
Final Destination 2 (David R. Ellis, 2003)
The original Final Destination was a hackneyed, if clever, take on the slasher film-- what if the killer was Death itself? The surprise success of the movie, which gained an audience well beyond the usual slasher-film groupies, immediately had the studios hunting up ideas for a sequel. It should be no surprise by now that Hollywood + sequel = junk.
In this one, one year to the day after the explosion of Flight 180, Kimberley Corman (Tru Calling's A. J. Cook) is on the way to Daytona Beach with her friends when she has a vision of a horrible accident on the highway, and refuses to budge from the on-ramp. Needless to say, the accident happens, and everyone who got stuck behind her on the onramp is now set to be stalked by Death. Kimberley and her new love interest Burke (Hart's War's Michael Landes), the cop who was trying to figure out why she wasn't merging, try to figure out how to cheat death, enlisting the help of Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the sole survivor of Flight 180. (Yeah, that confused me, too. There's an Alien 3-style revelation about Devon Sawa's character about a quarter into the movie.) Clear gets our old pal Bludworth (Tony Todd) involved as well, and we're off to the races.
I have to admit, I give the movie grudging props for not going where I feared it was going to go (Tony Todd battling it out with Death in a steel cage match), but man. I can almost see the board meetings on this one. "So we have all these ideas for how to kill people. Story? Who cares?" And that's basically what you get. I also have to say that the final scene in the movie is worth the price of admission by itself. Which is good, because nothing else about the movie is. **
Score: 2