Final Destination 2 (2003)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

David R. Ellis

Writers (WGA):

J. Mackye Gruber (screenplay) &
Eric Bress (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

31 January 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

It's not over yet...

Plot:

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Premonition | Car Accident | Freak Accident | Hospital

Awards:

4 nominations

Cast

Ali Larter	...	Clear Rivers
A.J. Cook	...	Kimberly Corman
Michael Landes	...	Thomas Burke
David Paetkau	...	Evan Lewis
James Kirk	...	Tim Carpenter
Lynda Boyd	...	Nora Carpenter
Keegan Connor Tracy	...	Kat
Jonathan Cherry	...	Rory
Terrence 'T.C.' Carson	...	Eugene Dix (as T.C. Carson)
Justina Machado	...	Isabella Hudson
Tony Todd	...	Mr. Bludworth
Sarah Carter	...	Shaina
Alejandro Rae	...	Dano (as Alex Rae)
Shaun Sipos	...	Frankie
Andrew Airlie	...	Mr. Corman

Also Known As:

Destination Ultime 2 (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, language, drug content and some nudity.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Singapore:M18 | Iceland:16 | USA:R (No. 39566) | Malaysia:18SG | South Korea:18 | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Portugal:M/16 | Belgium:KNT | Canada:18A (Canadian Home Video rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:MA | Denmark:15 | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Ireland:18 | Japan:R-15 | Netherlands:12 (original rating) | Netherlands:16 (DVD rating) | New Zealand:R16 | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG (original rating) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of the Grisons) | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

The school bus full of kids chanting "pile up" is from Mt. Abraham, the same school as all the victims from the first movie.

Goofs:

Continuity: The photo of Isabella Hudson on the computer that the main characters look at, is a photo of her in the jail cell, which is later in the movie.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Host: Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary since Velez Air Flight 180 exploded and crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK airport. It's a disaster that's affected many. None more so than Mt. Abraham High School, which lost 40 students and 4 faculty members in the crash...

Movie Connections:

References One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Soundtrack:

Rock'n Roll

Horror makes way for humour and gore

Final Destination was a decent film. Original idea, pretty suspenseful directing, and some death scenes that while inventive, were creepy to boot.

This time around, with a new director and a new approach, we get a very different film. The first movie was a horror - this is'nt. In fact its not even a thriller, its basically a load of silly dialogue acted out badly by very silly actors, with some dead people in-between.

The thing is, that doesn't make the movie all that bad - The deaths and the gore are the pay-offs, and great care has been taken to ensure that all of them would get a great reaction from a packed cinema theatre.

The car pile up at the start is bone crunchingly violent, with buckets of blood being splattered everywhere - and its very entertaining stuff.

Various methods have been used here for the subsequent death scenes (CG, green screens, puppets, models) but it all cuts together very well, and most of the deaths would have your average cinema audience whooping with crimson tainted delight...

The impressive trickery used in killing off each character, intertwining supsense and surprise, is so effective, that many people will come away from this film forgetting that there wasn't actually anything else good about it - apart from the eye candy of course.

Worth a watch - you'll recoil in disgust and laugh more than you would watching most movies of this genre. try to catch it before you die.