Final Destination 2
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{{Infobox Film
| name= Final Destination 2
| image= Final destination two.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = [[David R. Ellis]]
| writer = [[Jeffrey Reddick]] (characters)<br>[[J. Mackye Gruber]] (screenplay)<br>[[Eric Bress]] (screenplay)
| producer = [[Craig Perry]]
| distributor = [[New Line Cinema]]
| starring = [[Ali Larter]],<br>[[A. J. Cook (actress)|A. J. Cook]],<br>[[Michael Landes]],<br>[[Keegan Connor Tracy]],<br>[[Jonathan Cherry]],<br>[[James Kirk (actor)|James Kirk]],<br>[[Lynda Boyd]],<br>[[Justina Machado]],<br>[[Sarah Carter]],<br>[[TC Carson]],<br>[[David Paetkau]]
| music = [[Shirley Walker]]
| released= [[January 31]], [[2003]]
| runtime = 90 min.
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget = ~ $26,000,000
| preceded_by = ''[[Final Destination]]'' (2000)
| followed_by = ''[[Final Destination 3]]'' (2006)
| amg_id = 1:274895
| imdb_id = 0309593
}}
'''''Final Destination 2''''' is a [[2003]] [[supernatural]] [[thriller]], and sequel to the [[2000]] hit ''[[Final Destination]]''. It was directed by [[David R. Ellis]] and stars [[A. J. Cook (actress)|A. J. Cook]] as Kimberly Corman and [[Ali Larter]] as Clear Rivers. The film is set in [[White Plains]] [[2001]] after the previous movie and has only two returning characters; Clear Rivers and the [[mortician]] William Bludworth. The movie grossed $16,017,141 on its opening weekend in the [[US]], a significant portion of the high it grossed overall. It was a minor hit, debuting in its first week at #2 and falling from then onwards.<ref name="boxofficenumbers">{{Cite web|url=http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/m/final_destination_2/numbers.php|title=Final Destination 2 Box Office & Rental Numbers|accessdate=2007-01-15}}</ref> It is succeeded by [[Final Destination 3]].
== Plot ==
Like the first movie, which played on the notion of high school kids as survivors, the sequel plays with the notion of 8 strangers from different walks of life (A schoolteacher, drug addict, business woman) as the new group of survivors on Death's List. It has been one year since the tragic explosion of Flight 180. While going on vacation in Daytona Beach, Florida, Kimberly Corman, (played by [[A.J. Cook]]) traveling with her friend Shaina ([[Sarah Carter]]) and two other male friends, Dano Royale ([[Alex Rae]]) and Frankie Arnold ([[Shaun Sipos]]), has a terrifying vision of a horrific car pile-up. She causes outrage when she blocks the on ramp to the highway, but the signs prove true. The survivors, Eugene (T.C. Carson), Rory (Jonathon Cherry), Katherine ([[Keegan Connor Tracy]]), Nora (Lynda Boyd) and her son Tim ([[James Kirk (actor)|James Kirk]]) are all held up at the police station and Kim begins to tell everyone about her strange premonition. They all leave, but one of the survivors dies mysteriously, and Kim begins to suspect that her premonition is really something more. In a mental institution, she meets Clear Rivers ([[Ali Larter]]), the sole survivor of [[Flight_180#Volée Air Flight 180 (2000)|Flight 180]], who has had similar experience with premonition. She reluctantly accepts Kim's offer to help her spot the signs to keep her and the others alive, but the [[Final Destination 2 deaths|deaths]] have already begun. A police officer who initially brought everybody in for questioning, Thomas Burke (Michael Landes), also offers his assistance in keeping everyone alive, but it becomes a race against time as everyone has scattered after dismissing the tales. The enigmatic [[mortician]] William Bludworth ([[Tony Todd]]) makes another appearance and provides more insight into the workings of Death involving the forces of balance.
=== Cast & Characters ===
* '''Kimberly Corman''' ([[A.J. Cook]]): The visionary in this film. She is the last one to die on the pile-up and the first on Death's list, though she's saved by officer Burke, thus putting her at the end of the list. She is the one who prevents the pile-up. Because of the few people surviving Flight 180, anything that the survivors did afterwards affected other people, interfering in the deaths planned for them. Thus, if Alex had not had his premonition and everyone had died on Flight 180, then people in this film would have died months before the pile-up. Kimberly would have died along with her mother in a shoot-out robbery while she went to get some cigarettes, but she was caught up in watching a news special on how a teenager "committed suicide" (this is Tod's death in Final Destination. Kimberly cheats death and survives in the end of the movie but she got impaled by a woodchipper with Office Burke shown in Final Destination 3 choose your fate.
* '''Clear Rivers''' ([[Ali Larter]]): Returning in this sequel, Clear comes out of her safe self-imprisonment at [[Stonybrook Institution]] and helps the new set of survivors, using her knowledge and experiences from the first film. She is the sole survivor of Flight 180. She is killed by an explosion in the hospital while talking to Eugene.
* '''Officer Thomas Burke''' ([[Michael Landes (actor)|Michael Landes]]): A [[New York State]] [[trooper]] who gathers everyone together to inform them of what's going on, provides the equipment, and serves as Kimberly's love interest. He was the first to die on the pile-up and last on Death's list. He would have died months prior in a shoot-out while on the job, but he was busy cleaning up the remains of William "Billy" Hitchcock (Flight 180 survivor) at the site of a train accident (Billy died by [[decapitation]] in the first ''[[Final Destination]]''). Burke manages to defeat death and survives the movie but he got sucked in by a woodchipper with Kimberly shown in Final Destination 3 choose your fate.
* '''Eugene Dix''' ([[TC Carson]]): A motorcyclist who is very skeptic of Death's "design". He would've been the second person to die on the pile-up and is tenth on Death's list. After all of the survivors are rounded up, he asserts his free will and insists he decides his own fate, not Death. However, after Nora dies, he attempts to commit suicide by shooting himself with Burke's gun, but fails when all six shots jam. He then dies along with Clear in the hospital explosion.
* '''Rory Peters''' ([[Jonathan Cherry]]): A drug addict who serves as the film's comic relief. He would've been the third person to die on the pile-up and ninth on Death's list. He is killed when he is sliced into pieces by swinging barbed wire, released from light poles after an explosion.
* '''Kat Jennings''' ([[Keegan Connor Tracy]]): A very selfish and direct woman who tends to complain often. She would've been the fourth person to die in the pile-up and eighth on Death's list. As she is driving with the other survivors to find Isabella, they get into another freak car accident and a sharp [[PVC]] pipe plunges through their SUV, missing her head by inches. However, when a fireman rams the [[jaws of life]] into the side of the car in an attempt to cut her out, the driver [[airbag]] deploys, pushing her head back into the pipe, impaling her and killing her instantly.
* '''Nora Carpenter''' ([[Lynda Boyd]]): She is the oldest of the pile-up survivors. Nora would've been the fifth person to die on the pile-up and is seventh on Death's list. Nora is a widow and mentions this shortly before her death. After Tim dies, she is very depressed, not caring if she is next until her fate finally arrives. She decides to leave the safety of the other survivors, even though she is next. As she is on the elevator, a man with a box full of prosthetic hook hands tangles up her hair, causing her to get stuck in the elevator doors. As the elevator leaves the floor, she is decapitated. Her death convinces the other survivors of the severity of their situation.
* '''Timothy "Tim" Carpenter''' ([[James Kirk (actor)|James Kirk]]): The youngest of the survivors (15 years old), he and his mother Nora are seen as having an ideal mother-son relationship. Timothy would've been the sixth person to die on the pile-up and is sixth on Death's list. As he is at the dentist's office, multiple pigeons crash into the window, this is a hint to his death. The aquarium in the dentist's office has a leaking pipe, which spurts water onto the wall outlet, shorting it out and causing the gas tanks to malfunction, giving him an overdose of the [[nitrous oxide]] he was on as general anesthesia for his operation. A hanging [[Mobile (sculpture)|mobile]] then falls into his open mouth, causing him to begin to suffocate, and he is unable to remove it because of the laughing gas. A nurse, however, notices what is happening and saves him. After narrowly escaping death in the dentist's office, he encounters Kimberly and Officer Burke, who had just arrived on the scene and try to save him by shouting "Tim! The pigeons!" because of Kimberly's vision.Tim misunderstands them and runs into the flock of pigeons on the street, causing a construction accident where a heavy sheet of glass falls on him, crushing him and killing him instantly. Ironically, he is shown reading [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Bag of Bones]]'' the previous night, before going to sleep.
* '''Evan Lewis''' ([[David Paetkau]]) is a young man who had recently won the lottery for $250,000. After being saved from the pile-up, he arrogantly dismisses the danger his life is in and heads home after a shopping spree. Upon arriving at his apartment, he slips on a doll, this becomes a hint to his death. He discards some leftover noodles and places some Chinese food in the [[microwave]], unaware that a [[fridge magnet|Refrigerator magnet]] is in the box. As the microwave begins to shoot sparks, he jumps and drops a ring down the drain. As he plunges his hand in the drain to recover the ring, his arm becomes stuck and the food he was cooking catches fire. He attempts to free his arm and put out the fire, but the fire spreads to the rest of his apartment. He then tries to escape his apartment but all the windows slam shut. Breaking a window, he gets out to the fire escape just as his apartment explodes. He then successfully makes it to the ground but then slips on the noodles he discarded earlier, and as he is laying prone, the fire escape ladder slips and impales him through the face, killing him instantly. He is the first survivor of the pile-up to die in a freak accident (apart from Kimberly's friends), and his death alerts Kimberly and Officer Burke to the nature of what's going to happen.
* '''Shaina Gordon''' ([[Sarah Carter]]): Kimberly's best friend, who dies seconds after the pile-up. From what we see of her, she seems to be quite funny. She would've been the eighth person to die on the pile-up and is fourth on death's list
* '''Dano Royale''' ([[Alex Rae]]): A friend of Kimberly's, who dies seconds after the pile-up. He is into doing drugs, but not an addict, and is carrying weed when Officer Burke comes up to Kimberly's SUV. He would've been the ninth person to die on the pile-up and is third on death's list.
* '''Frankie Arnold''' ([[Shaun Sipos]]): A friend of Kimberly's, who dies seconds after the pile-up. He seems to be the youngest and doesn't like Dano carrying drugs. He would've been the tenth person to die on the pile-up and is second on the list.
* '''Christopher Corman''' ([[Andrew Airlie]]): Kimberly's father. He is constantly worrying over her safety after his wife's death.
* '''William Bludworth''' ([[Tony Todd]]): The eccentric and threatening mortician who tells the characters of Death's design. He talked to the first round of survivors in the first film and told them the concept of the design and intervening in it. Here, he tells Kimberly only one thing: "Only new life can defeat death." He also comments that Clear has such "a fire in [her]", hinting to the fact that he knows how she dies.
=== Alex Browning & Clear Rivers ===
Clear was fated to be the second to last person to die in the original ''[[Final Destination]]'' (after Billy and before Alex). Due to all of the interventions, by the Paris scene in the first movie the order was Alex, Carter, and Clear. Carter intervened in Alex's death and was subsequently killed next, making the order Clear, then Alex. We learn from Officer Burke's research and also from Clear that Alex was killed when a falling brick hit him in the head. His death was attributed to a gust of wind that dislodged the brick from a nearby building, but it was obvious that Death planned for him to die after Clear. However, Alex pushed Clear out of the way, changing the order and was destined to later die from a flesh-eating virus. Clear states that before the events in Paris, she and Alex cheated Death dozens of times before he was killed.
[[Devon Sawa]] (Alexander Chance Browning) does not appear in the film due to a contractual dispute with [[New Line]], so his character was killed off-screen.
When the decision was made in pre-production to kill off either Clear or Alex, Alex was chosen, as females seem to drive horror movies better than males{{Fact|date=April 2008}}. The fact that two female lead characters would be present in this movie compelled [[Ali Larter]] to resume her role as Clear Rivers.
==Cultural References==
As with the first movie, some of the characters have their names taken from horror/suspense movie actors or directors.
:Kimberly Corman - Taken from director [[Roger Corman]]
:Nora and Tim Carpenter - Taken from director [[John Carpenter]]
:Evan Lewis - Taken from director [[Herschell Gordon Lewis]], the "Godfather of Gore".
:Tim Carpenter - Taken from director [[Tim Burton]]
==Censorship==
* When the movie first aired on TV in the United States, there were several edits. Aside from the obvious edits of bad language (i.e. [[shit]] becomes "baloney/shoot/crap" or [[fuck]] becomes "freak/freakin", etc.) there were some edits on the most gruesome scenes. For instance, rather than actually seeing the violent scene, it is implied via sound effects.
* Some examples of edits are explained below:
** Kat being impaled is not shown at all, instead the impact sounds and then it cuts toward the scene where she drops the lighter onto the stream of leaked gas.
** Rory's death was only shown with blood leaking from his mouth and then it cuts to the next scene.
** The scene where Clear and Eugene are incinerated by the leaking oxygen tank, it is edited down to only showing the explosion.
** Brian being incinerated at a barbecue grill was slightly edited, where his charred severed arm is shown in midair for only a brief second and lands on the table (but we don't actually see the arm on the table since the camera is pointed upward at his mother rather than a full shot).
==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.deathiscoming.com/ Official site]
* {{imdb title|0309593|Final Destination 2}}
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