Final Destination 2

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Final Destination 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	David R. Ellis
Produced by	Craig Perry Warren Zide Associate Producer: Sheila Hanahan Co-Producer: Justis Greene Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich Richard Brener Matt Moore Jeffrey Reddick
Written by	Screenplay: J. Mackye Gruber Eric Bress Story: J. Mackye Gruber Eric Bress Jeffrey Reddick Characters: Jeffrey Reddick
Starring	Ali Larter A. J. Cook Michael Landes TC Carson Keegan Connor Tracy Jonathan Cherry James Kirk Lynda Boyd Justina Machado Sarah Carter David Paetkau Tony Todd
Music by	Shirley Walker
Cinematography	Gary Capo
Editing by	Eric Sears
Studio	Zide/Perry Productions
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	United States: January 31, 2003 U.K: February 7, 2003 Australia: March 6, 2003
Running time	90 min.
Country	Canada United States
Language	English
Budget	$26,000,000
Gross revenue	Worldwide: $90,426,405 [1]
Preceded by	Final Destination (2000)
Followed by	Final Destination 3 (2006)

Final Destination 2 is a 2003 supernatural thriller, and sequel to Final Destination (2000). Directed by David R. Ellis starring A. J. Cook as Kimberly Corman, and Ali Larter as Clear Rivers. The film is set in White Plains, New York and in the proximity of Greenwood Lake, NY, in 2001, a year after the events of the previous movie and has two returning characters; Clear Rivers and the mortician William Bludworth. Grossing $16,017,141 on its opening weekend in the US, which was a significant portion of its overall profit. It was a minor hit, debuting in its first week at #2 and falling from then onwards.^[1] It was followed by Final Destination 3.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Characters 3 Music 3.1 Soundtrack 3.2 Songs featured in the motion picture 4 Reception 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Plot

The film takes place one year later after the Flight 180 curse from the first film. While on vacation, Kimberly Corman experiences a vision of a mass pile-up on the highway on which she is traveling. She blocks the entrance ramp to the highway so that motorists who would have otherwise died are spared, including Kimberly, a police officer named Tom Burke, a stoner named Rory Peters, teacher Eugene Dix, a lottery winner named Evan Lewis, a mother named Nora Carpenter, her son, Tim, and an ordinary woman, Kat Jennings. After being blocked off, no one believes Kimberly until a mass pile-up happens on the highway just like in her vision. Soon the survivors who would have perished in the highway crash start dying in mysterious ways, the premise being that you can't cheat death, even to its personification. After learning of the similar events from the first film, Kimberly visits Clear Rivers in a mental institution where she has voluntarily committed herself. She tells Kimberly to be careful because the order has reversed itself. Now Kimberly and Officer Burke must figure out in which order the survivors were supposed to die, since it is backwards. It is later revealed that the characters destined to die in this film were somehow originally spared from death as a result of the elaborate deaths in the first film, adding another element of complexity to Death's Design.

Soon, the survivors find themselves having to work together to find a way to cheat Death before they all reach their final destination.

[edit] Characters

• Kimberly Corman (played by A.J. Cook): The female lead, and the visionary whose warning leads to several other motorists and drivers avoiding the accident on Route 23. She was expected to die way before she had her premonition of the pile-up. She explained that a year ago, she and her mother were at a local mall, when a group of thugs started harassing them. Her mother confronted them and died in the process, while Kimberly was distracted by a news program at a nearby electronics shop of a teen named Tod Waggner who had supposedly hanged himself in the bathroom. She figured out that to save Tom, she had to die. She took an ambulance and drove it into the lake. She drowned but was saved by Tom and revived later at the hospital. In an uncut scene of Final Destination 3, it is revealed that Kimberly and Burke were impaled in a woodchipper accident prior to the five months after the roller coaster incident.

• Officer Thomas "Tom" Burke (played by Michael Landes): A New York state trooper and lead male character. He would have died at the hands of a thief holding someone at gunpoint, but his partner went in his place and was killed instead, since Officer Burke was responding to a call to clean up the remains of Billy Hitchcock near some train tracks. When Kimberly drove into the lake, Tom jumped into the lake to save her, and brought her back to the hospital, where she was revived by the doctor. It is learned in Final Destination 3 that he and Kimerbly died when they were impaled by a woodchipper.

• Clear Rivers (played by Ali Larter): The lone survivor of the Flight 180 curse from the first film (explaining that Alex Browning died after being struck by a falling brick during the September 11 attacks) who comes out of a self-imposed exile in a mental hospital and uses her experiences to guide the new group of survivors. She is incinerated in the hospital along with Eugene, and she is the seventh one to die.

• Eugene Dix (played by TC Carson): A teacher who is initially skeptical of Death's design, but becomes convinced after witnessing the predicted death of Nora Carpenter. He explained that he would have died sooner at a local school where a student brought a knife on campus, but instead he was transferred to Mt. Abraham High to substitute for Ms. Valerie Lewton after her death. He is incinerated in the hospital along with Clear, and he is the sixth one to die.

• Rory Peters (played by Jonathan Cherry): A drug addict, and the film's comic relief. He was destined to die sooner at a theater in Paris, until he witnessed Carter Horton get struck by a swerving billboard that fell from the top of the theater building. He is killed in an explosion, being cut into several pieces after a barbed-wire fence slices through his torso. He is the fifth one to die.

• Kat Jennings (played by Keegan Connor Tracy): A very direct woman who appears selfish and tends to complain often. She was destined to die at a bed and breakfast hotel where there was a gas leak and almost everyone suffocated. However, the bus she rode there struck a girl (Terry Chaney) on the street, delaying her from arriving. She is killed after being in a car crash and becoming stuck in her seat, when the airbag goes off and impales her head into a pipe protruding from the back of her seat. She is the fourth one to die.

• Nora Carpenter (played by Lynda Boyd): Nora is Tim's mother, and she is the oldest of the survivors. She is decapitated in an elevator door, and she is the third one to die. A clue to her death was a shadow of a man with hooks.

• Timothy "Tim" Carpenter (played by James Kirk): Tim is 15 years old, and is the youngest of the survivors. He survives a near-fatal choking incident at a dentist's office, only to be crushed by a giant glass window that falls from a crane outside. He is the second one to die. A clue to his death were the pigeons.

• Evan Lewis (played by David Paetkau): A young man who recently won $250,000 in a lottery. He escapes a microwave induced fire in his apartment, but is killed by impalement through the right eye by the fire escape ladder. He is the first one to die. A clue to his death was the fridge letter magnet. After the letter "H" fell into his food in the microwave, it spelled "eye". Another clue to his death was the doll with only one eye.

• Isabella Hudson (played by Justina Machado): A pregnant woman that originally wasn't meant to die in the pile-up and did not die in the film. After the mortician, William Bludworth (Tony Todd), told Kimberly, Tom, and Clear that new life defeats death, they figured out that when Isabella had her baby, they would have defeated death. However, Kimberly had a vision showing that Isabella was not meant to die in the pile-up, and thus, they still had to deal with death. Since Isabella was not meant to die in the car crash, no one was safe, and Clear and Eugene died that day.

• Brian Gibbons (played by Noel Fisher): A minor character in the movie who appears in the field scene, but was not on the on-ramp of Route 23. He was originally planned to be run over by a news van, but Rory Peters saved him. He is killed in a barbecue explosion in a cookout. He is the eighth one to die.

[edit] Music

[edit] Soundtrack

Final Destination 2 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Film score by Shirley Walker
Released	2003
Genre	Soundtrack Film score
http://walker.filmmusic.com/final_destination_2.html

1. "Main Title" – 2:48
2. "Kimberly's Lake Premonition" – 2:03
3. "Blow-Out" – 1:44
4. "Coincidence-Kimberly Remembers Mom" – 2:27
5. "Killer Kayak" – 1:11
6. "Nora's Turn-Eugene Freaks" – 3:40
7. "Kimberly Goes to See Clear" – 1:51
8. "Kimberly Sees Dr. Kalarjan" – 0:47
9. "Ba Bye Kat & Mustang" – 1:19
10. "Dad and Kimberly" – 0:45
11. "Pigeons" – 2:39
12. "Eugene's Oxygen" – 2:54
13. "New Life" – 1:59
14. "2 Left" – 4:21
15. "We Did It" – 0:40

[edit] Songs featured in the motion picture

• "Dance with Me" - Performed by The Sounds
• "Rock'n Roll" - Performed by The Sounds
• "Highway to Hell" - Performed by AC/DC
• "Jon F. Hennessy" - Performed by FT
• "Middle of Nowhere" - Performed by The Blank Theory
• "Vitamin" - Performed by Incubus
• "I Got You" - Performed by (hed) Planet Earth
• "Rocky Mountain High" - Performed by Pete Snell
• "Rocky Mountain High" - Performed by Jude Christodal
• "My Name Is Death" - Performed by Jude Christodal

[edit] Reception

On its release, Final Destination 2 received generally mixed reviews from critics, earning a 47% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 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 topped the Rotten Tomatoes score in terms of the series, with the highest score amongst the four films in the franchise.

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".^[2] Even acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino was quoted as saying that the opening scene was "a magnificent car action piece".^[3] The highway pile up was nominated for "Best Action Sequence" at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Final Destination 2 at the Internet Movie Database
• Final Destination 2 at Allmovie
• Final Destination 2 at Rotten Tomatoes

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