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Final Destination 2

We also watched Final Destination 2 last night, which turned out to be pretty disappointing. I generally don’t like scary movies, but I must say I liked Final Destination pretty well, for a scary movie. It was well done and had a good feeling of tension throughout the whole movie, in my opinion.

The sequel however, felt like little more than a series of gross-out CG effects strung together by pieces of the story from the first one.

The story is basically identical to the first movie… A teenager foresees a tragic accident in graphic detail and then somehow saves a group of people from dying in that event. This changes death’s plan however, which pisses him off so he goes after them one by one, killing them in the order in which they were originally destined to die. The difference is that in the first one, the teenager was a boy, now it’s a girl. And instead of an airplane explosion, it’s a massive pile-up on the interstate.

There is also one other difference from the first movie, in this one there is apparently a way to stop death completely from trying to carry out his master plan, which is made evident to the teenagers with the help of the creepy undertaker from the first movie. He gives them a cryptic answer of something like “new life is the only way to defeat death” which they first assume means that the baby of the pregnant lady that was supposed to die in the crash has to be born to end the cycle. However later in the movie they discover this isn’t the case, and another type of sacrifice must be made to stop death.

But like I said, all of that is just an excuse to string together the very over the top and graphic death sequences of each cast member. Out of the maybe 10 people that are featured in the movie, all of them have died terribly gruesome deaths by the end of the movie except for 2 of them. One gets a fire escape ladder smashed through his head, another is decapitated by an elevator, another it sliced into 3 sections by a flying barbwire fence, etc. No matter the method in which they die, they all seem to somehow explode into blood and guts. One guy just has a piece of glass dropped on him, but somehow that causes his entire body to disentegrate into a shower of blood spread out in a thirty foot radius.

Unless you really like computerized death sequences, you will do well to seek your scares elsewhere.

yeah, that movie isnt much else but effects.. i enjoyed the getting smacked under the glass-part.. mostly because he bent backwards, kindda, ind a funny way..

good review otherwise.. my oppenion exactly :)

yeah, that movie isnt much else but effects.. i enjoyed the getting smacked under the glass-part.. mostly because he bent backwards, kindda, ind a funny way..

good review otherwise.. my oppenion exactly :)