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| Final Destination 2 |
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  (7/10)
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Runtime: 100 |
| Public Rating: 7.33 (173 votes) |
Director: David Ellis |
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| Genre: Horror/ Thriller |
Year: 2003 |
| Writer(s): J. Mackeye Gruber & Eric Bress |
| Reviewed by: Nate Anderson |
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If nothing else, Final Destination 2 will be remembered for one of the most impressive and intense car crash pile-ups ever presented on film. The accident is so incredible and intense that gasps of surprise where made by all in the theatre. If you're thinking you saw it all in the trailer, think again. You just got a small taste of it.
The rest of the movie is basically a re-hash of the original Final Destination with only a few new twists. More gory deaths and plenty of false alarms abound in the film. But still, the tension is in the scenes. They don't play flat as one would expect. Part of it maybe the fact that the filmmakers wisely decided not to shy away from the horror. Everything is played out straight, with very little humor, which adds to the grim inevitability of the film.
Performances were pretty good, considering the majority of the cast consisted of relative unknowns, with only Ali Larter returning from the original film, (the rest of them died, and Devon Sawa's absence is explained pretty well, although I wish they had come up with a better send off for him...) A.J Cook takes over as the person with the visions.
Overall, the form of the film is the same as the original, with similar elaborate death sequences involving just about anything one can think of to cause a death. In fact there were a couple of times when I found myself going, "Oh come on...", but in the spirit of the movie I accepted the fact that Death simply liked to go to extremes to kill his victims.
Ali Larter, being the survivor of the first film and basically being around to link the two films, spends most of her time warning others about the inevitable. But she does have a couple good scenes, including knocking some sense into a couple idiot teenagers, one of which was about to light up in a gas station, something that has always scared me. If someone is stupid enough to do that, they deserve to die, but all I ask is that they have the courtesy to destroy themselves when I am not around.
Final Destination 2 isn't quite as good as the original, although it does go in new directions, for some it just might seem a little repeditive. Personally, I found it to be pretty tense. Of course, I may have just never quite recovered from the crash at the beginning.
Of course, the ending of the film is left open for a Final Destination 3. I don't know whether to be curious...or scared.
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