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Final Destination 2 | Year: 2003 Classification: Horror Directed: - David Ellis Actors/Actresses: - A.J. Cook - Ali Larter - Tony Todd Almost Perfect Sequel Audiences that saw Final Destination back in March 17th 2000 were in for a great surprise when a movie that followed the release of Scream 3, the supposed "nail in the coffin" for the horror genre, came out of nowhere and put the terror back into the cinema. Since it's release and the Sept. 11th tragedy, there has been a major lack of horror films. While movies like The Signs and The Ring did big business at the box office, Jason X and the embarassingly bad Halloween: Resurrection failed to resurrect anything. The days of slash and splat seemed to be a thing of the past. That is until now. Three years later, the highly anticipated sequel Final Destination 2 is here. The story is pretty similiar to that of the first and is set exactly one year after the "Flight 180" tragedy. This time around our main character is a female named Kimberly (A.J. Cook) who's going on a road trip with her friends. While on the interstate highway she has a premonition about a major accident that would kill everyone on the road. Snapping back to reality she ignores her friends pleas to continue driving and places her car in an area that will keep the wreck from happening. She succeeds, but ends up stalling traffic causing several vehicles to be stuck behind her; one of them being a cop car. Officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) asks her to step out of her car and explain what's going on. Everyone begins honking their horns like crazy as she gets out and tells him what she saw. Seconds later a giant semi truck speeds by and smashes into her car, killing all of her friends. The survivors think they're lucky cheating death, but as time goes by and they begin to die one by one, Kimberly knows that death has a new design and it isn't done with them yet. The accident scene is worth the price of admission alone. It's horrifyingly realistic and brutally gruesome showing what can happen when people drink and goof off while driving, don't pay attention, etc. The rest of the film plays out as expected which is the reason why I gave this movie only 4 stars. In the original movie, no one knew what to expect or that death was gonna come back at them in terrifyingly clever ways, but with the sequel you do expect it. However, the makers of the film have many surprises in store and you have to see it to believe it. None of the death scenes in this movie are as surprising as Terry's (Amanda Detmer) hit by the bus scene in the original, but instead of pulling away the camera like they did, this movie delivers it's shock value with it's amount of gore. FD2 revels in it's own disgust and bloodshed using every chance it can get to let "death" slice, dice, cook, drop, smash, burn, stab, slam, impale and totally annihilate it's survivors. The characters in this chapter are more colorful and fun to watch unlike the humorless waiting to be picked off stiffs in the first movie who were fun to laugh at instead of laugh with. There's more diversity and the cast exudes a charm that ma This one was actually fun! After three horrible horror films in a row (i.e., They, Ghost Ship, and Darkness Falls), I was pleasantly surprised that Final Destination was so enjoyable. Okay, let's get the important horror question out of the way - no, this is not a scary film. Like the Part I, it's enjoyable because the deaths are just so out of the blue and original. One could argue that this is just a remake of Part I, and they would be correct. This film follows the EXACT same storyline as the first one (i.e., spectacular accident premonition followed by a group of people trying to dodge death). There's a somewhat clever attempt to connect this group of people to the original cast (although it's all a bit too coincidental) and the deaths are grander and gorier. This is definitely a fun popcorn film. It moves quickly and remains interesting, even if it doesn't make much sense. One question, for example; If death always gets people who dodge close calls (i.e., meant to die), wouldn't this type of thing be happening every day? That is, wouldn't there be people all over the world dying from strange accidents? Okay, I'm getting to logical - after all, it's a horror film! Anyway, check out this film, you should have fun. Avoid the 3 films that I mentioned earlier like the plague. Not your standard teen slasher 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. Buy Final Destination 2 at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Final Destination 2 Search with the Priority Search Engine on Final Destination 2 This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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