Average Rating: 5.9/10
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Release Date: Jan 5, 2007 Wide
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In lieu of continuing the events of Geoffrey Sax's 2005 thriller White Noise (which starred Michael Keaton and Chandra West), the supernatural thriller White Noise 2 (released in Great Britain as White Noise: The Light) begins with a separate set of characters and explores a thematically similar set of events. Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) is a sweet-natured, contented husband and father whose wife, Rebecca (Kendall Cross) and young son, Danny (Josh Ballard) are butchered by a seemingly crazed
Jan 5, 2007 Wide
Jan 8, 2008
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Expecting you to believe a lot while borrowing from many ghoulish sources, genre fans will find plenty to enjoy even if there isn't enough to love.
Thanks to Lussier's tight direction, gruesome disturbing imagery, wonderful story, and great performance by Nathan Fillion, [it's] is a great piece of supernatural filmmaking...
[T]he script does work in one good -- and by "good" I mean "cheap and implausible" -- Firefly reference...
A few cheap jolts, a handful of clever ideas, and just enough energy and creativity to make it across the finish line.
White Noise 2 is pretty much everything the original film wasn't: genuinely exciting, well made, competently acted, and contains a payoff that remains in the realm of easy digestion.
Don't let the insipid mediocrity of the original film stop you from checking out the sequel.
...Fillion's stellar work ensures that one can generally overlook the film's various inadequacies...
It's a lot better than you might think!
This one is better than the first one. I liked the ending.
January 23, 2010
Super Reviewer
White Noise 2: The Light is slightly better than the first film. It could/should have been much better as the story was much stronger. It was certainly more entertaining than watching Michael Keaton watching TV for 90 minutes anyway. The problem was, quite typically in recent sci-fi/sudo-horror/paranormal dramas, was
December 23, 2009Super Reviewer
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