Final Destination 2

Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2
	File:Finaldestination2.jpg Region 2 DVD Cover
Directed by	David R. Ellis
Written by	Jeffrey Reddick (characters); J. Mackye Gruber (story)
Produced by	Craig Perry
Starring	A.J. Cook; Ali Larter
Music by	Shirley Walker
Distributed by	New Line Cinema
Release dates	January 31st, 2003
Running time	90 minutes
Language	English
Budget	~ US$26,000,000

Final Destination 2 is a 2003 horror film and the second installment in the Final Destination series. It is distributed by New Line Cinema and directed by David R. Ellis. It is also produced by Craig Perry and written by Jeffrey Reddick. It is the sequel to the movie Final Destination (2000). It is followed by Final Destination 3 (2006). The DVD was released on July 22nd, 2003.

Plot

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It has been one year since the tragic explosion of Flight 180. While going on vacation, Kimberly Corman, (played by A.J. Cook) traveling with her friend Shaina (Sarah Carter) and two other male friends, has a premonition of a horrific freeway pile-up while still on the on-ramp. She causes outrage when she blocks traffic, 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) 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, 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 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.

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Kimberly Corman (A. J. Cook), the main survivor from Final Destination 2

Cast & Characters

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Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook): The visionary in this film. 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 their planned deaths. Basically, if everyone died on Flight 180, then people in this film would have died months ago prior to the pile-up. Kimberly would have died along with her mother in a shoot-out robbery, but she was caught up in watching a news special on how a teenager "committed suicide" (this is Tod's death in the first Final Destination).
Clear Rivers (Ali Larter): Returning in this sequel, Clear comes out of her safe self-imprisonment and helps the new set of survivors, using her knowledge and experiences based on the first film. She is the last survivor of Flight 180.
Officer Thomas Burke (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 would have died months prior in a shoot-out while on the job, but he was busy cleaning up the remains of Billy Hitchcock (Flight 180 survivor) at a train accident.
Rory Peters (Jonathan Cherry): A drug addict who acts as the comedy-relief of the group. He is likable, but a bit immature. He would have died in a theatre in Paris that collapsed, but he was too freaked out to attend when a guy was hit by a falling sign (Carter from the first film).
Kat Jennings (Keegan Connor Tracy): A very self-centered and direct woman who tends to complain. She would have died at a bed and breakfast in Pennsylvania when a gas leak suffocated all the renters, but she was unable to go when the bus she was on splattered some girl on the street (Terry Chaney of the first film). She is a survivor of the pile-up.
Nora Carpenter (Lynda Boyd): She is the oldest of the pile-up survivors and is seen as skeptical, but she proves to be a loving and caring mother to Tim. After he dies, she is very depressed, not caring if she is next until her fate finally arrives.
Tim Carpenter (James Kirk): The youngest of the survivors, he and his mother Nora are seen as having an ideal mother-son relationship. They may not have any link to the Flight 180 survivors and may have been intended to die in the pile-up in the first place.
Evan Lewis (David Paetkau): An impatient man who wins the lottery on the day of the crash. After the crash, he goes on a shopping spree before being the first (not including Shaina, Dano, and Frankie) to die.
Isabella Hudson (Justina Machado): A pregnant woman who was on the highway during the pile-up. The survivors falsely believed that Isabella having a baby would remove them from death's list. It isn't until much later that Kimberly realizes that she was not meant to die, thus her baby's birth will not save them.
Shaina (Sarah Carter): A friend of Kimberly that dies minutes after the pile-up.
Dano (Alex Rae): A friend of Kimberly that dies minutes after the pile-up.
Frankie (Shaun Sipos): A friend of Kimberly that dies minutes after the pile-up.
Mr. Corman (Andrew Airlie): Kimberly's father. He is constantly worrying over her safety after his wife's death.
William Bludworth (Tony Todd): The strange mortician that informs 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 a new life can defeat death."
Eugene Dix (T.C. Carson): A teacher who would have died at a school when a kid brought a knife and stabbed him. However, he had been transferred to another school to take over for another teacher (Valerie Lewton). He was a survivor of the pile-up.

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 Final Destination scene in Paris the list was Alex, Carter, Clear. Obviously, Carter intervened in Alex's death and subsequently was next in line and killed, making the list Clear, Alex. We learn from Officer Burke's research and also from Clear that Alex was killed when a falling brick hit his face. His death was attributed to a gust of wind that dislodged the brick from a nearby building, but it was obviously what Death planned for him. Clear states that since the events in Paris, she and Alex had skipped Death dozens of times before he was killed.

Devon Sawa (Alex) 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 to kill off either Clear or Alex in pre-production, Alex was chosen, as females seem to drive horror movies better than males. The fact that two female lead characters would be in this movie compelled Ali Larter to resume her role as Clear Rivers.

Deaths

Differences from the Novelization

Some of the characters have altered names in the book: Shaina Gordon, Frankie Arnold, Dano Royale, Kat O'Brien, Rory Cunningham, and Eugene Hooper. In the movie, Shaina, Frankie, and Dano have unrevealed last names, Kat's last name is Jennings, Rory's is Peters, and Eugene's is Dix.
In the novel, the fireman successfully manages to remove Kat's door. Mr. Gibbons is relieved as he sits on the hood of the car, bumping the bottom of it against the ground and hitting one of the sensitive areas, causing the airbag to deploy.
In the book the hospital explosion scene is a bit different; the explosion kills Eugene, Clear, and a hospital orderly. Clear opens the door, just as an orderly walks by. He asks her to hold a birthday cake while he hands Eugene some crosswords. Clear smiles as she stands at the door holding the lit cake, and the whole room explodes. The oxygen tank explodes, sending shrapnel into Eugene, killing him instantly. Clear and the orderly's body are both blown down the hallway, charred and blackened.
In Final Destination 3, one of the "Choose Their Fate" features reveals that Kimberly and Thomas are both killed by a malfunctioning woodchipper, but the novel of Final Destination 3 does not say this, due to the fact that the third book was adapted from an earlier script.

Trivia

Once again, characters are named after actors and directors from classic horror movies, including Roger Corman and John Carpenter.
According to the InfiniFilm features, the highway crash sequence shut down 11 miles of highway for 14 days.
When Officer Burke was researching Flight 180, a photo of Terry Chaney after the bus accident can be seen. This is actually a photo of the actual dummy used for the scene. Additionally, the website he was seeing had photos of the Flight 180 survivors with a description of how they died under the photo. If one pays close attention, Alex's photo can be seen with the other victims, but the camera angle was careful that his death was not revealed, at least not until Clear was introduced.
Out of all the characters who died in this film, Eugene was the only one who died offscreen. There is a scene of him burning, but that was deleted and included in the InfiniFilm features. Additionally, the explosion was originally going to be set off by a birthday cake.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead auditioned for this movie, but did not make it. She later starred in Final Destination 3 instead.
Nora's death scene was originally going to be longer and more gruesome, having the elevator going up and down repeatedly. The filmmakers decided against it and just had the elevator go up. Nora's death scene was similar to an incident at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston, Texas where a medical intern was decapitated in an elevator. This scene also bears a resemblance to a death in the Dutch movie De Lift which was about an elevator being controlled by "evolving" bio-electric microchips in its system. In the movie, a guard checks out the elevator in question which suddenly closes, he gets caught between the doors, and he gets forced down in a similar fashion. In addition, Nora's death also bears resemblance to a death in the Resident Evil movie. At the beginning of the film while the scientists are in a panic, one of them tries to climb out of the elevator and is then killed when the elevator turns on.
The crash in the beginning was based on the March 14th, 2002, 125-car pile-up in Ringgold, Georgia.
Although this film begins exactly one year after the explosion of Flight 180 from the first Final Destination, the film actually starts off 5 months after Final Destination ends.
The original character for Tim was going to be a 7 year-old boy, but the filmmakers decided it would be too harsh to watch, so they changed it to a 15 year-old character.
This movie, like the first, takes place on Long Island. The mental ward where Clear lives is in St. James.
At the start of the movie during the opening credits, a model plane can be seen. This is the same model plane that was in Alex's room in Final Destination's intro.
Tony Todd's voice can be heard saying "Kimberly" at the beginning of the movie.
The officer in Isabela's car, while reporting Kat's car crashing, can be heard saying they are at the 180 mile marker, a reference to Flight 180.
If one listens closely when Rory gets sliced by the barb wire, people cheering can be heard in the background.
Among the mortician's predictions and knowledge about death, he also alludes to Clear Rivers' death when he tells her "...you have such FIRE in you now."
As Kimberly sees sees the sign that says "Construction next 180 feet", if you look behind her, there are barely any cars on the road, but seconds later, Shaina, Dano and Frankie is hit by a speeding truck.
Before the highway pileup, when Eugene takes his helmet off, when he turns off his motorcyle while waiting for Kim to move, the ball attached to the end of his keys says the number "13", an obvious bad omen.

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