Final Destination 2

Darth Henry

Did anybody here anything about this or see it anywhere?

Is it supposed to be any good or is it a lame follow up?

Mr E

Read this review on AICN which says its better, gorier and more fun that the original.... I can't wait to see it! (Very mild spoilers - nothing new if you've seen the trailer)

FINAL DESTINATION 2 picks up exactly a year after the end of the first film, and thankfully Devon Sawa is already dead. True, I would have taken great delight in watching Mr. Puffy catch a stray brick in the head, but this film’s loss was EXTREME OPS’s gain. Instead, we start with Kimberly, played by the adorable A.J. Cook. She watches some of the anniversary footage of Flight 180, and it freaks her out a bit as she prepares to leave on a road trip with some friends. She’s not prepared for what happens when she actually gets out onto the freeway, though. If you’ve seen the first film, then you remember how the plane crash was handled. There was a massive fake-out, the audience is led to believe something has actually happened, and then we learn it was all just a vision. Kimberly has the same sort of premonition here, and what we see is one of the most harrowing car crash pile-ups ever staged for a movie. This is so incredibly visceral that even if you’re a gore fan, it may shake you.

Oh, yeah... I guess we should address the gore issue right now. If you like gore... if you’re a fan of make-up effects and extreme imagery... then FINAL DESTINATION 2 is a fanboy’s dream come true. If you’re not into graphic up-close fantasy violence, then stay away, because that’s pretty much the reason this film exists. You see, Kimberly manages to evade the car accident thanks to her vision, and she also keeps an entire on-ramp of cars from joining traffic. That means there’s a whole group of people who are lifted out of Death’s design, and Kimberly’s actions set off a chain of events just as deadly as those in the first film, eventually leading her to seek out the help of Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the only survivor from the original movie. One by one, they each confront their mortality in elaborate sequences designed to fake the audience out as many times as possible before delivering money shots that you won’t believe you saw. I found myself laughing out loud and even applauding twice at the sheer audacity of the film’s big sequences. This is the kind of movie you need to see with a huge crowd because the fun is infectious. You’ll end up cheering right along with your friends at each new atrocity, and you won’t even feel guilty about it afterwards.

This film is an improvement over the original in pretty much every way. Ellis has a much more confident eye as a director than James Wong did, and the script by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber obviously impressed the studio so much they let the writers direct their own script for THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT. It takes the preposterous premise of the first film and twists it just enough that it makes sense for this sequel to take place. It also plays dirty. No one is safe in this film. They kill characters you don’t think they can possibly kill, and they do it with a certain amount of glee. The result is a film that flies by, that will elicit major responses from the audience, and that delivers exactly what it promises. It’s a winning combination, and it makes me want to go all Joe Bob Briggs for a minute and say something like, “FINAL DESTINATION 2 is this year’s red-meat masterpiece, a boatload of gore that’s executed with real brains... and guts... and eyeballs and severed spines and all sorts of other organs, too.” If that sounds like your sort of movie, then I’ll bet you enjoy this weekend mightily.

Kalina

How did Devon Sawa's character get killed?? I thought he beat death in the first movie.

ObeyGiant

Didn't the first film end on some really ominous note? Devon Sawa escaped death, and he thought he was safe, and right before the credits started rolling, you saw that he was just about to get killed.

Something dumb like that, anyway.

spooky donkey

Did the first film have an alternitive ending on the DVD. Perhaps they used that as the true ending to make the next film happen! Im only guessing though its years since i rented that film!

Mr E

I forgot about that alternative ending.... Sawa's character killed himself to save Larter's character....

daveJAM

Is it just me or did anyone else find themselves pissing with laughter the whole way through that film?

Some of the elaborate deaths are pure genius.

pauldeehan

That bit when the girl started yelling at everyone and got hit by a bus. I laughed so hard...

...and that's why I'm going to hell.

Darth Henry

that bit was great!!!!

i saw FD 1 twice.

second time i watched for the reaction from the audience and it was hilarious.

i don't think there was a person in the place that didn't jump out of their seat!

yellum

Saw it tonight. Best film I've seen in months. Got some great laughs. The deaths are brilliant in it too. Its way way way gorier than the first one.

I'd recommend this. There wasn't as much tension but its great. The ending is just class, what an ending ! Most impressive sequel I've seen for something in this genre. The new cast of characters is a good idea too.

The opening traffic accident is frickin brilliant and you wouldn't expect what happens to happen. Its a great scene actually, very well shot.

Giblet

The plot sucks, the characters suck, the acting sucks, but the deaths are good! :>

Devon Spoiler.

They explain Devon Sawa's death as he got killed by a brick. Thats it! A brick fell on him, sucks eh

Some of the scenes are great, and funny. The opening scene had me in pisses of laughter, its kinda like the simpsons where Homer has to take over Smithers job and is making him breakfast, same with the ending, but there were too many plot holes, and a major part of the plot is too obvious.

Mr E

Ah I loved it... it was a FUN movie. After the opening sequence (which really builds excitement because you KNOW its going to end with a bang!) you just look forward to each death. The deaths are elaborate, and most are VERY gruesome. This is the goriest movie I've seen in the cinema for quite a while.

Final Destination 2 is BETTER than the original, and enough people survive at the end to make the trilogy inevitable. I especially liked the continuity with the original - its very clever.

I loved it, anyway, and look forward to dragging my friends along to it next week just to watch their reactions!

- Dave.

yellum

Devons death was excellent really since everyone else went in really nasty ways. The guy that started all of this died in such a bland way.

GreenHell

Saw it last night didn't see the first one, so I was expecting some exciting thriller, no go in that respect.

But I'd agree with you all some of the death scenes are just sheer class. Don't think I'd bother go seeing it again, so if I had the choice of going seeing it again I don't think I'd go.

Spunog UIE

ah pretty funny not scarey at all tbh, nothin really is tho anymore. g'wan dog solders.

Entertaining mmmmm k.

MrJoeSoap

An absolutely shockingly bad film. The deaths are so incredibly far-fetched that I found myself in stitches through most of the film. The stereotypical black guy is a work of comic genius - how many times can one guy say "bullsh*t" in one film?

Practical

just seen it there , it was more of a comedy than a thriller but I still enjoyed it

irishgeo

Thoguth the film was the best i seem in gaes. The deaths were so much better than the first film.

They were much gorier and the audience had a few groans and luaghs through the film. i would give 9/10 as for the crash at the start unreal.

Its a brillant film with flaws but i just kept trying to guess how the next person would get killed and i was usually wrong.

I am going to buy that on DVD when it comes out.

[CALIBUR]

the plot was kind a bad but really good moive.

spoiler: the car crash's at the start of the moive was fùcking cool.

Jim

awful awful film. again death scenes pretty good, especially the pile up. didnt really understand how they cheated death in the end though

segadreamcast

My understanding of it was that since she had to be resuscitated she was technically given a "new life" - which wiped clean the slate. IMO that's a ridiculous technicality though...

But hey, this wasn't a movie made for its plot really.

Darth Henry

absolutley terrible film.

what a waste of money and time.

btw, i was the only person in the entire cinema.

awweb

I saw it last nite .. its not bad, the deaths are brilliant, especially the barbed wire body decapitation .. lol very humerous ..

Its worth a watch, story line is brutal but just for the above death and the pile up @ the beginning .. what more can I say!!