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Final Destination 2 (2003)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 107
Fresh: 50 | Rotten: 57

This sequel is little more than an excuse to stage elaborate, gory scenes of characters getting killed off.

30

Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 16

This sequel is little more than an excuse to stage elaborate, gory scenes of characters getting killed off.

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70

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Average Rating: 3.2/5
User Ratings: 423,834

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Movie Info

Death lurks, and two teenage girls try to figure out where he's heading, in this sequel to the unexpected teen horror hit Final Destination. As Clear Rivers (Ali Larter), the only surviving passenger of the ill-fated Flight 180, waits in a mental institution, certain Death will claim her, Kim (A.J. Cook), who has begun to display precognitive powers, is driving along the highway when she sees a terrible accident in which several cars crash into a logging truck. Moments later, the horrible vision

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Horror

J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress

Jul 22, 2003

$46.5M

New Line Cinema

Cast

All Critics (129) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (54) | Rotten (58) | DVD (28)

When a horror flick gets tedious, it's DOA.

February 3, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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Part of the fun here is anticipating the Rube Goldberg-style machinations by which Death catches up with its targets.

January 31, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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That there is an audience for a movie in which innocent people suffer hideous accidental deaths is troubling enough, but that a group of creative people chose to direct their energies on this repulsive spectacle simply provokes disgust.

January 31, 2003 Full Review Source: USA Today | Comment
USA Today
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The filmmakers clearly set out to make a film that featured lots of footage of really disgusting annihilations, then threw together a haphazard script and hired a few hot actors to play the corpses.

January 31, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment
Toronto Star
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Gruesome, ridiculous, really bad waste of time.

December 24, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Now that the ground rules have been established for the Final Destination movies, the fun lies in seeing the inventive ways in which the writers dispatch the various characters in the sequel.

August 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | Comment

Even more than Part 1, the real stars of this movie are the elegantly choreographed freak accidents.

June 18, 2008 Full Review Source: ESplatter | Comment
ESplatter

One by one these people get bumped off, one by one the people in the audience laugh their asses off.

February 8, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment (1)
TheMovieReport.com

Albert Einstein... noted, 'God does not play dice with the universe.' [T]he makers of... Final Destination... have... decided that Death likes to play Mouse Trap.

January 4, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Perhaps you can't cheat death in Final Destination 2, but apparently you can kill originality.

October 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

'Make no mistake, without the slicing, dicing, filleting, and pureeing, this flick is a recipe for boredom. But like its predecessor, I was expecting a bloodless teen snorefest and got something several sanguineous degrees better!'

September 4, 2003 Full Review | Comment

Even if the movie is not your cup of tea, the extras offer an attractive alternative.

July 30, 2003 Full Review | Comment
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Gets more convoluted and thus less involving as it goes along.

July 30, 2003 Comment
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus
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Audience Reviews for Final Destination 2

One of my favored series of films...I like them all and they can do no wrong!

December 28, 2011
stormyweather980

Super Reviewer

Hey, I still enjoyed it. The premise was still fresh and creepy.

November 25, 2011
Albert Kim

Super Reviewer

    1. Mr. Bludworth: Hello, Clear. I've been expecting you.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (51 days ago)
    1. Kimberly Corman: There's gonna be a huge accident. Everybody's gonna die!
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (51 days ago)
    1. Host: Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary since Velez Air Flight 180 exploded and crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK airport. It's a disaster that's affected many. None more so than Mt. Abraham High School, which lost 40 students and 4 faculty members in the crash. But it was the events after the crash that has turned this tragic story into something even stranger. The survivors that managed to get off the plane before it crashed died soon thereafter in a series of mysterious and bizarre accidents. Now to some, these deaths are just tragic coincidences, but to others, they're an indication that there are more sinister events taking place. That's the contention of tonight's guest. Thank you for joining us this evening.
    – Submitted by Kerwin M (51 days ago)
    1. Mr. Bludworth: Come to pick my brain?
    2. Clear Rivers: Just a simple question, and we'll leave you alone with your new friend.
    3. Mr. Bludworth: Dead, it's still... fresh.
    – Submitted by John P (4 months ago)

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