Final Destination 2 (DVD)

Kimberly Corman is going on a road trip with her friends...or so she thinks. On the way, she suddenly has a premonition about a car crash and terrifies the life out of her friends by coming to a complete halt on a highway. While trying to explain what she thinks is about to happen to a disbelieving police officer, the crash happens, killing her friends and several other people. Thanks to her premonition though, there are survivors. But Kimberley remembers a plane crash a year before after which the survivors died in freak accidents one by one. The only survivor is Clear Rivers, and she is in a psychiatric hospital. Kimberley goes to see Clear hoping for some answers. ...  Read the complete review

What’s it about? --------------------- Kimberly Corman cheats death and saves the lives of a number of other people in a car accident. Death, however, comes hunting them. Who’s in it? -------------- In true “horror/serial killer” movie fashion, it’s basically stacked with a mostly young, good looking cast who, though competent, are never going to set the acting world alight. But that really doesn’t matter. Their job is simply to die in increasingly interesting ways. For the record, though, the main characters, played competently, if a little blandly, are Kimberly Corman (played by A J Carter) and Officer Thomas Burke (Michael Landes). The ...  Read the complete review

It would be easy to dismiss Final Destination 2 as just another tragic teen flick. Such movies rarely win critical acclaim in their first outings, let alone with a rehashed sequel to continue the franchise. But while the sequel to the 2000 hit wins no prizes for covering new ground, it certainly lives up to the expectancy bestowed on it by its core fans. The premise is simple. You don't mess with the plan of death. What is death's plan? This is the question that Final Destination poses and answers over the course of a hundred action packed, and often violent, minutes. The thing which seperates this franchise from the rest in its throwaway genre is that the ...  Read the complete review

In death there are no accidents, no coincidences and no escapes. You can?t cheat it. That?s what we found out in the original film. The big sleeper hit of 2000, it grossed $53m in the US and £10m in the UK. It arrived with a breath of fresh air to the horror genre, it wasn?t a formulaic slasher flick nor was it another Blair Witch but a fun filled, gruesome and well crafted movie. It became one of my firm favourites of films that year and will remain so for a very long time to come. It was with delight and caution when I found out that a sequel was announced soon after the success of the first. Final Destination worked fantastically well as a stand-alone film and a ...  Read the complete review

Final Destination 2 is the second (and arguably the best) of three sequels to the highly unique and original film that was Final Destination. Taking a whole new cast and cleverly linking them to characters from the first film, the movie provides lots of twists, turns and shocks as fans try and second-guess how each character is going to die...usually in the goriest ways possible. For those not familiar with the first movie, a group of school kids aiming to fly to France on a class trip narrowly averted all being killed when one of their friends had a chilling premonition at the airport that the plane was going to crash soon after take-off. Many of the ...  Read the complete review