Final Destination 2
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| Directed by | David R. Ellis |
| Written by | Jeffrey Reddick, (characters), J. Mackye Gruber (story) |
| Produced by | Craig Perry |
| Starring | A.J. Cook, Ali Larter |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
Release dates | January 31, 2003 |
Running time | 90 minutes. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | ~ US$26,000,000 |
Final Destination 2 is a 2003 horror movie. Distributed by New Line Cinema and directed by David R. Ellis. Produced by Graig Perry and written by Jeffrey Reddick. It is the sequel to the movie Final Destination. It is followed by Final Destination 3. It's DVD release was on July 22, 2003.
Plot
It has been one year since the tragic explosion of flight 180. 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 and the accident happens anyway, killing a large number of people. The survivors, Eugene (T.C. Carson), Rory (Jonathon Cherry), Katherine Jennings (Keegan Connor Tracy), Nora Carpenter (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 person dies, and Kim begins to suspect that her premonition is really something more. She meets, in a mental institution, 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 killings have begun. A police officer who initially brought everybody in for questioning, 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 and left on their own.
The enigmatic mortician William Bludwoth (Tony Todd) makes another appearance and provides more insight into the workings of death involving the forces of balance.
Cast
- A.J. Cook - Kimberly Corman
- Ali Larter - Clear Rivers
- Michael Landes - Officer Thomas Burke
- Tony Todd - William Bludworth
- Terrence 'T.C.' Carson - Eugene Dix (as T.C. Carson)
- Jonathan Cherry - Rory Peters
- Keegan Connor Tracy - Kat Jennings
- Lynda Boyd - Nora Carpenter
- James Kirk - Tim Carpenter
- David Paetkau - Evan Lewis
- Justina Machado - Isabella Hudson
- Sarah Carter - Shaina
- Alex Rae - Dano
- Shaun Sipos - Frankie
- Andrew Airlie - Mr. Corman
Deaths
In Order of Death
- Kimberly's friends (Shaina, Frankie, & Dano): Minutes after the gigantic pile-up, Kimberly is next to her vehicle looking around at the destruction and is unable to move due to the trauma. She sees a road sign that says "180 feet" (reference to flight 180) and we know something is about to happen. She fails to notice the now-on-fire truck that caused the pile up that is coming straight toward her. Officer Burke sees this and successfully pushes Kim out of the way. However, the firey truck still manages to strike Kimberly's van, with her friends still inside. They all died instantly in fire.
Note: Kimberly was meant to die along with her friends, but by Officer Burke saving her, her death was intervened in death's design. She was bumped to last on the list.
- Evan: Just winning the lottery, Evan comes back to his apartment with a large amount of new valuables (a computer, a ring, etc). He warms up some Chinese food and, through his apartment window, he throws out some spoiling pasta that was sitting in the stove for a while. Evan also cooks some food on the stove. He sets the carton with the Chinese food next to he refrigerator and while looking away, a magnet falls into the paper box with the rest of the food. Oblivious to this, he puts the Chinese food into his microwave and checks his calls while waiting. Most of the calls he received are from women who found out about his lottery winnings. He chuckles about this and trieds on his gold ring and watch that he bought. He accidently drops the ring and it rolls into the sink and down into the garbage disposal. Instinctly, he grabs for it, but gets his hand stuck in the drain. Just then, the food in the microwave starts smoking and the food on the stove gets too hot and catches fire and the flames spread around the kitchen. Evan, still stuck, throws a rag unto the stove, just making it worse. He frees his hand, and without success tries to put out the flames. Accepting that the fire is unbeatable, Evan goes through the fire escape in his apartment, but the windows are locked tight. He gets a chair and gets out the window that way. Evan races down the metal stairs and his apartment explodes. Just barely escaping death, Evan goes more slower down the escape route, but comes to a stop when ladder going down to the pavement is set up too high. He gets on it and shifts his weight, trying to get the ladder down. It lowers, and he gets off successfully. He steps back, but he trips on the pasta that he just threw out and his face comes under the ladder. The ladder comes down the the metal tips of it is inches from Evan's face. Just realizing that he dodged death once again, Evan lets out a laugh of relief. With tremendous force, the ladder comes down, impaling Evan through the eye, killing him instantly.
- Tim: Kimberly has a vision that Tim or Nora will die due to something involving pigeons. She and Officer Burke see the mother and son coming out of the dentist office, where construction is taking place just in front of the building. Also, there a pigeons gathered together on the sidewalk. Kim runs towards Nora and Tim and shouts out "Pigeons!!!" trying to warn them. Tim doesn't realize the urgency in her voice and interprets it differently. He notices the pigeons and runs towards them playfully scaring them off. But unknown to Tim, he is actually right under a glass panel that is used for contruction. Most of the pigeons fly toward a man operating machinery and he blindly pulls a lever which lets the glass panel fall. Tim looks up, but it is too late and he is crushed like an accordian. His death is the most gory in the film.
- Nora: Nora, upset over Tim's death decides to leave the protection of the other survivors and wants to just get home and plan her son's funeral. She and Eugene both leave the survivors' meeting at Thomas Burke's apartment. They take the elevator, but before Eugene leaves, Thomas gives him a cell phone to give to Nora. In the elevator, Eugene and Nora are quiet, but become uncomfortable when a older man comes in with a cart full of hands possibly for an amputee. The man stands behind Nora and sniffs her hair and looking her over, angering Eugene. In the apartment, Rory attempts putting stuff in the closet, but contents in it falls out and hits Rory. He is fine, but with the light bulb and the various objects on top of each other, a shadow is cast and it resembles a man with hooks. He warns the other survivors and they call Nora warning her of a "man with hooks." Nora, still in the elevator, receives the call, but she drops the phone. She kneels to get it, but her ponytail is caught on unto the cart's contents behind her. When she hears the news, she becomes freaked and wants to get out. She stands up straight and the hook holds her head down, and she is more frantic than ever. Nora stops the elevator and manages to get out, but the old man with the cart fails to realize that he is holding her back. The elevator closes and her neck is trapped in the doors. The elevator goes up and she is decapitated.
- Kat: After Nora's death, the group is anxious to get to the hospital to see Isabella have her baby. On the way there, the survivors cross paths with Isabella (in labor), causing them to swerve, leading them to blow a tire, and untimately crash. The cop escorting Isabella wants to help the group, but Isabella insists on continuing to the hospital. Some locals run to where the survivors are and the cop is convinced enough to leave. Meanwhile, the survivors had crashed into a pipes and logs. Eugene was impaled through the chest, but he is still alive; some pipes went through the SUV (one in particular right behind Kat's head); Kat herself is trapped in the driver's seat due to a log across her lap. Everyone, who is able to, gets out and the people who came to help get Eugene an ambulence. Clear (who seemed to develop a bond with Eugene) insists on accompanying him, but the paramedics refuse and leave. A news van arrives to cover the situation. One of the vans almost hits a boy named Brian, but Rory saves his life. Kat however, is still in the van and a man is trying to help her out. He uses a large chainsaw ("jaws of life") and crams it into the front end of the SUV to get Kat out. Kat is irritated by the noise and asks him to "please quiet that down". The man smartly replies "I'll be sure to put in on 'quiet mode'" and prepares to go at it again. Kat retorts "will do" as she leans forwards to get something. With force, the guy jams the chainsaw deep into the SUV, hard enough to deploy the airbag, pushing Kat into the pipe behind her. The airbag dies down, and the audience sees what is left of Kat.
- Rory: One of the news vans is leaking gasoline and various pipes on the ground (they are there due to the crash) leads the liquid under another van. Kat, with a cigarette in hand as always, drops the cigarette when she dies and the wind blows it into one of the pipes. The fire travels to the van and it blows up. The blast is so strong that it knocks down a tree (falling over and saving Thomas, as it is not yet his turn to die) and blows a wire fence across the field. Rory is oblivious to this as he was shooting up on crack and the wire fence cuts through him, bisecting him in three.
- Eugene & Clear: Eugene is in his hospital bed hooked up to an oxygen machine. He watches the news and learns of Kat's death, and he now knows that it's his turn to die. He helplessly watches his oxygen machine fail and luckily for him the back-up kicks in. This happens the moment that Isabella has her baby. but there is a major plot twist. The survivors have been relying on the hope that Isabella having her baby would save them from death's list, as "new life defeats death". However, they are sadly mistaken as Isabella was never meant to die in the pile-up making Isabella and her baby have nothing to do with death's design. Kimberly comfirms this as she has another vision. Clear leaves the group and searches for Eugene. In false security, Clear opens Eugene's bedroom door which pulls a plug from an outlet, creating a spark, which reacts with the all the escaped oxygen in the room, and blowing up the entire room. Eugene and Clear die instantly and Clear's charred body lands in front of Kimberly.
Note: Since Clear put herself into an institution, it made a freak accident almost impossible. A new list began, now getting rid of people who's planned deaths were affected by the survivors of Flight 180 and making Clear's place on death's orginal list unimportant. So unlike the other survivors, Clear had no idea when it would be her turn to die. When Eugene died, death took care of Clear at the same time killing off the last of Flight 180's survivors.
- Kimberly: Putting all the visions she had in the past day together, Kimberly realized that in order to defeat death, she must die. She drowns herself and is revived by a doctor, literally given a "new" life. Since she actually died, she is no longer on death's list and can live normally. She also saved Thomas's life as well...Or so it seems.
- Brian: Much later, Kimberly, her father, and Thomas join the family who helped them during Kat's and Rory's death scene to an outdoor barbecue. Brian, who is serving everyone gets up to get more food, but mentions his close call with the news van. While he is over there, his dad reminds us that he was saved by Rory. Kimberly and Thomas look at each other, but they are startled by the barbecue grill blowing up in the background, killing Brian. His charred, dismembered arm lands in front of his mother who screams the film into the credits. Brian's death is comical, but it was for a good reason. He wasn't a survivor of the plane nor the pile-up, but he was meant to die that same day that the survivors died. However, he cheated death when he was saved by Rory. To make this more simpler, if Kimberly never saved anyone from the pile-up, then Brian would have died, as was planned.
Death obviously doesn't have exceptions.