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On board a van with a group of friends, Kimberly (A.J. Cook) sees flashes of an impending
massive crash enroute around her. She stops her van, thus stopping traffic to prevent the pile-up disaster from happening.
Still, the crushing inferno takes place. Among her friends she is the only one saved. Only because she had left the van to talk with the other travelers. A policeman had pulled her away in time. However, she finds out that those on the road who survived, were one by one, mysteriously dying by violence. This happening appears to be a carbon copy of a previous accident (
Final Destination 1). With the assistance of the police officer she traces its lone survivor, Clear Water, at a sanitarium (the only safe place for her).
Together the three try to find out why death stalks road accident survivors and whether there is a way to stop this bizarre and deadly pattern from continuing. A number
of scary films have been coming out lately. Since there is a market for this form of entertainment, Final Destination 1 is followed by Final Destination 2.
The plot is simple: Some entity has destined death for a certain number of persons through violent accidents.
If there are survivors – who are supposed to be dead – each one will be stalked until she/he is killed through an accident. Thus Final Destination 2
follows the pattern of the original movie. The creativity for the present film is to show how each survivor meets death. Each scene is violent and bloody, sometimes shockingly so. The directing, composition, production design and other technical elements are geared towards these sequences that need shadows and suspense. The acting is at a minimum.
Two clearly negative elements surface on the screen: one, the extent of the violence with its
blood and gory body parts; two, an intentionally attempted suicide. Other ideas Final Destination 2 transmits are the following:
psychic visions should be taken for real or seriously; putting one's life at risk by disregarding such predictions is fatal; the love of a parent for a child (sending the father to the highway pile-up to find Kimberly); caring and supporting each other among the survivors and the determination to find the means to end the ongoing tragedy.
(Date Reviewed: March 7, 2003)
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