"So, I'm surrounded by death?"
Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) and three college friends are driving through New York to a vacation in Daytona
Beach when they become involved in one of the screen's most incredible multi vehicle collisions. This scene is
guaranteed to see leave you speechless. Before the accident we see all the player's taking their assigned positions
in this occurence and all the other individual events begin to gel together leading to an amazing roadway catastrophe.
Kimberely and her friends watch as a runaway tractor trailer takes their lives.
"Is she dangerous or something?"
"No honey,she expects you are."
Alright, you already figured out that if everyone died here then there would not be a story. That's correct, just
like in the first film all this is a dream/premonition Kim has while sitting at an intersection reeady to enter
the playing field. Freaked out, Kimberly refuses to move any farther holding up a long line of vehicles behind her.
A police officer, Thomas Burke (Michael Landes) who is behind her SUV, comes to her vehicle to find out the
problem. She's panicked and everyone behind her is yelling at her, just as she sees the lumber truck that began the
series of events that caused all the deaths she forsaw. The accident happens as she saw it, minus all the ones who
were involved that now sit safe, behind her. The officer calls for help and just as Kimberly and her friends are
about to be crushed by a truck, Officer Burke grabs her out of harms way. Kim screams as she watches her friends still
in her car, totally demolished.
"Congratulations, you'll be the last to go."
Well, she managed to screw up Death's plan and we now know what has to happen. Death will not be denied and once
Kimberly and Officer Burke put the clues together they now suspect what will happen. The other survivors are told
what will happen and of course they are not exactly anxious to believe Kimberly. With a little checking Kimberly is
able to track down the only living survivor of Flight 180, Clear Rivers (Ali Larter) to a pyschriatric hospital
where she has voluntarily confineed herself. Here Clear stays in a padded room with nothing in it that Mr. Death would
be use to kill her. Kimberly begs for help but Clear is just not willing to leave and help but she does offer
suggestions on what clues to look for.
"We're all going to die aren't we?"
Since this is a dead teenager movie, it's time to see some of them die. Of course what makes deaths in this film
interesting is the little events that occur to cause the death. Watching these little occurrences is like watching an
out of control Rube Goldberg skit. The first of death's corrections happens to Evan Lewis a young man who was lucky
twice, so everyone thought. He won the lottery and then managed to survive the disaster on the highway. He comes hope
with a huge iMac box and several times nearly slips on toys in the hall. Once in his apartment he lights a fire under
a frying pan, puts something in the microwave; his ring ended up in the microwave which explodes out and flies into the
garbage disposal drain. Trying to retrieve the ring he reaches into the drain and gets his hand stuck. The frying pan
catches fire and ends up on the floor where a fire starts, trapping him with his hand still stuck in the drain. As the
fire threatens to take Evan's life, his window slams shut but he manages to pull his hand out. Smashing the window he
gets of the apartment and heads down the fire escape just as his apartment blows up. Running down the stairs he ends
up climbing down the escape ladder and gets to the ground...safe. Nope you see earlier he threw some spaghetti from
the frying pan out the window. Well now he slips on the spaghetti and well you'll see what happens next.
"I control my life. I control my life."
Every time one of the characters dies, it happens with a series of events that seem unrelated until the boom drops.
One of the other teenagers who survived with his mother has to meet his destiny in a dentist's office that involves
pidgeons. The events are so ludricous, that lead to Tim's death that the gruesome way he dies will make you wince in
agony. His mother will meet her end in an elevator that involves a man with hooked hands; believe me it will not be
what you think. Eugene Dix played by T.C. Carson ends up on a repirator after a car accident that involves
the others as well. His death I will not mention as it will also mean the death of another in a really horrible manner
which should stay as a surprise until you run out and plop your bucks down to see FINAL DESTINATION 2.
Another one will save a life but fall apart at his moment of death. Tracy Kat (Keegan Connor) dies with a touch
of irony and the jaws of life. One will have to die so the rest may live and when you think it's over, well you know
something will happen.
"Only new life can defeat death."
While all the actors are competent, the one who seems to relish his role is Tony Todd as the morgue attendant. Once
again he reprises his role with a devilish, sinister glee as he comes to the questionable aid of Clear, Kimberly and
Officer Burke. All the time he is talking to the three of them he is prepping Lewis' body for cremation. Our tall
ghoul tells them since Death's plan has been altered it can be permenantly changed if new life comes from death.
That's all you'll hear on that one, people, you need some surprises in your life.
"I have this really bad feeling."
"What?"
"It's not over yet."
If you like horror movies you can't go wrong with this sequel. Everyone I was with thoroughly enjoyed this movie and
you will as well. So I recommend this movie highly for those of you who can ignore some of the silliness and like to
be thrilled and scared. Grab that overpriced popcorn and those candies you sneaked in past the ushers at the door,
and enjoy FINAL DESTINATION 2.
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