| Final Destination 2 | |
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| Directed by | David R. Ellis |
| Produced by | Craig Perry Warren Zide Toby Emmerich Jeffrey Reddick |
| Screenplay by | Eric Bress J. Mackye Gruber |
| Story by | Jeffrey Reddick Eric Bress J. Mackye Gruber |
| Based on | Characters by Jeffrey Reddick |
| Starring | Ali Larter A. J. Cook Michael Landes |
| Music by | Shirley Walker |
| Cinematography | Gary Capo |
| Editing by | Eric Sears |
| Studio | Zide/Perry Productions |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | January 31, 2003 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $26 million |
| Box office | $92,426,405 |
Final Destination 2 is a 2003 American supernatural horror film and the sequel to the 2000 film Final Destination and was directed by David R. Ellis. It was written by Jeffrey Reddick, Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. The film stars Ali Larter, A. J. Cook, Michael Landes and Tony Todd. Cook portrays a teenager who "cheats death" after having a premonition of herself and others perishing in a horrific pile-up and uses it by saving herself and a handful of other people, but is continued to be stalked by Death by claiming back their lives which should have been lost in the pile-up.
It debuted at No. 2 on the Box Office Top 10 and remained in the top 10 for 3 weeks.[1] It was followed by Final Destination 3.
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On September 25th, 2000, exactly a year after the explosion of Flight 180, Kimberly Corman (A. J. Cook) has a premonition of a pile-up on Route 23, killing everyone involved. She stalls her car on the entrance ramp with her friends Shaina (Sarah Carter), Dano (Alex Rae), and Frankie (Shaun Sipos). This stops teacher Eugene Dix (T.C. Carson), mother Nora Carpenter (Lynda Boyd) and her son Tim (James Kirk), pregnant Isabella Hudson (Justina Machado), lottery winner Evan Lewis (David Paetkau), drug addict Rory Peters (Jonathan Cherry), businesswoman Kat Jennings (Keegan Connor Tracy), and police officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) from entering the highway. While Tom questions Kimberly about the inconvenience, her vision becomes a reality. While those who were spared stare in shock, an 18-wheeler truck crashes into Kimberly's SUV killing Shaina, Dano and Frankie.
While the survivors are questioned at the police station, they are informed of the events of the previous film, but only Kimberly takes it seriously. Later, Evan dies when a fire escape ladder slides down and impales his eye. After hearing of his death, Kimberly believes Death is reclaiming the survivors. Kimberly visits Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), who has checked herself in to an asylum in order to isolate herself from as many dangers as possible. The only advice she can offer Kimberly is to save herself.
Kimberly decides to ignore Clear's warning and begins to seek out the other survivors, but is too late to save Tim from being crushed by a glass pane. Clear decides to help Kimberly and takes her to see mortician William Bludworth (Tony Todd). Bludworth tells the group that they can escape Death via new life, which they interpret as helping Isabella deliver her unborn baby. Isabella is taken into custody while the others meet to keep each other alive. The grieving Nora leaves but her head gets trapped in a malfunctioning elevator doors and she is decapitated. The survivors learn that Isabella has gone into labor.
As the group races to reach Isabella, they discover that they were all unknowingly spared from Death once before because of events set in motion by the survivors of Flight 180. The vehicle suffers a blowout, causing it to crash. Eugene suffers a severe injury and is rushed to the hospital.
In the meantime, a family who witnessed the accident has arrived to help the remaining passengers. Rory saves their son Brian (Noel Fisher) from being struck by a rescue vehicle that has arrived on the scene. Their attempt to help Kat out of the vehicle fails when Kat's airbag deploys, and knocks her head into a sharp pipe, impaling her. She drops her cigarette, which falls into some gasoline, and ignites. The fire travels to a news van, which explodes and sends a barbed wire fence towards Rory, who is then trisected.
Tom, Kimberly and Clear continue to the hospital. On the way, Kimberly has another vision of what she thinks is "Dr. Kalarjian" trying to strangle Isabella. When they arrive, they witness Isabella giving birth. They rejoice, until Kimberly has another vision that Isabella was never supposed to die in the pile-up. Soon after, Eugene and Clear are killed in a gas explosion. Kimberly makes a bold move by stealing an ambulance and driving into a nearby lake to sacrifice herself. She nearly drowns but is saved by Burke and then revived in the hospital by Dr. Kalarjian, which is what her vision was really about.
Some time later, Kimberly and Tom are having a barbecue with the Gibbons family. The father tells about how his son Brian was saved on the day of the crash in the field and how Brian is lucky to be alive. Suddenly the barbecue grill's gas tank explodes and blows Brian to pieces.
Alex Browning (Devon Sawa), the main character from Final Destination, only appears in a photo on an article that Officer Burke reads while researching the crash of Flight 180; the article notes that Alex died when hit by a falling brick.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reports 47% of critics gave the film positive write-ups based on 107 reviews, with an average rating of 5 out of 10. It's consensus is, "This sequel is a little more than an excuse to stage elaborate, gory scenes of characters getting killed off."[2] While most praised it for its special effects and inventive death sequences, some dismissed it as being 'an average sequel to an average movie'. Nevertheless, this film has received the second highest score amongst the five films in the franchise on Rotten Tomatoes, the first being Final Destination 5 with a score of 61%.
The film has landed on many "best car crash/accidents" lists including one by New York Magazine which cited the highway pile-up scene as the greatest car crash in movie history, calling it "the new gold standard for car-related chaos in cinema".[3] Even acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino was quoted as saying that the opening scene was "a magnificent car action piece".[4] The highway pile up was nominated for "Best Action Sequence" at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.
| Final Destination 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | |
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| Film score by Shirley Walker | |
| Released | 2003 |
| Genre | Soundtrack Film score |
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