| FINAL DESTINATION 2 |
 2003 -
USA
Director: David R. Ellis - Reviewed by Tom
If you like gory movies with lots of guts, limbs, and entrails flying through the air with a splash of blood, this is the movie for you! The movie starts out with one of the most horrible looking car crash scenes I've ever seen in a movie. It starts out with a logging truck (yeah, I'm sure you can guess how!) and continues for a very tense five minutes with exlposions, hurtling and rolling cars, spilled gas, and lots of flyig guts. It takes a lot for a movie to make me squirm uncomfortably on my couch, but this one started out right. Kimberly Corman is going on a road trip with her friends in Dad's SUV when she has this really odd flashback of bad luck when she's just about to merge onto the freeway. She freaks out and blocks the onramp so that everyone behind her doesn't go out onto the freeway (since they were all in her vision of doom). The logging truck goes by as expected, then BOOM! They all avoid a messy death... or should I just say, delay a messy death. Similar to the first movie, each of the survivors who avoided their doom, end up dying in very strange accidents one by one. Kimberly goes to the Asylum to ask for help from a girl named Clear River (yeah, that's her name) for advice on what to do since she was the only survivor from the previous movie who knew what was going to happen. One by one, each person dies (Not really spoiler since we all know this.) Basically, they each go through a bunch of very near disasters that build up the tension until the final splat does them in. I think this is the most effective thing in the movie and deserves a slice of pie by itself. I love a good horror movie and am always searching for the ultimate movie that will just freak me out. (Blair Witch did a somewhat good job.) The plot in this movie is very simple, and doen't really deserve much recognition, but the tension of the pre-death scenes really gets you sitting on the edge of the couch in a little ball clutching your knees saying "Oh no, wait, he's still ok. Whoops, that was close. NO!!! Oh crap, that was just WRONG!!! Ewww!" (You then back up the DVD and watch the scene again in slow motion while you put your pizza slice back down on the plate losing your interest in chewing on it.) It's hard to really tell the story of the movie without too many critical spoilers leaking out, so I'll just say it may involve one or more of the following: pigeons, a broken pipe, sharp barbed wire, a piece of glass, gravity, fire, a ladder, a very bad elevator, and an old man with a box of hooks (you know, the kind that people with no arms use to hold their pizza with). A few clever plot twists tie the story together, and there it is. So as I like to do, I'll sum up this movie with a brief breakdown of my pie reasoning. 1 slice—The plot. The story itself is weak and simple to follow. 1 slice—Even though I was watching this movie late at night, when I usually fall asleep on my couch, it kept me wide awake. 2 slices—I'll have to give this 2 slices for bloody nastiness. Final Destination 2 is one of the grossest (is that a word?) movies I've seen in a long time, and it disturbed me. But that's a good thing, since that is what a horror movie SHOULD do! |
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Final Destination 2 is obviously a sequel to the first one—Final Destination. It's basically the same plot, but instead of an airplane exploding with a few nervous kids left behind that escaped, it has a very, VERY nasty car crash.
