Butterfly Effect 2
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| German title | Butterfly Effect 2 | ||
| Original title | The Butterfly Effect 2 | ||
| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 2006 | ||
| length | 89 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | John R. Leonetti | ||
| script | Michael D. Weiss | ||
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Chris Bender , AJ Dix , Anthony Rhulen . JC Spink |
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| music | Michael Suby | ||
| camera | Brian Pearson | ||
| cut |
Jacqueline Cambas , Chris Conlee |
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Butterfly Effect 2 from 2006 alludes to the very successful film Butterfly Effect from the title and suggests a sequel , but in terms of content and cast it has no connection to the previous film. The film Butterfly Effect 2 was not shown in the cinema, but was distributed directly on DVD. It was released on DVD on October 10, 2006 in the USA and two weeks later in Germany.
action
Nick takes his girlfriend Julie and his two friends Trevor and Amanda on a trip to the lake. During an intimate conversation with his girlfriend, his boss calls him and tells him to come to an important meeting immediately . His girlfriend reluctantly accepts this and all four drive home. On the way there a tire bursts, the car skids and a truck rams it. When Nick wakes up in the hospital, he finds that he was the only one who survived. When he got home, he looked at old photos that were taken on the evening of the accident and noticed that the photos began to move and he got a headache.
Almost exactly a year later, he was commissioned by his supervisor to give a presentation to a potential customer. During this presentation, Nick collapses at the sight of a photo, whereupon his boss puts him on leave for a week. At home, Nick looks at old pictures again and realizes that everything is deforming again. After traveling back in time in the car, he finds himself in the past. There he seizes the unique opportunity and this time evades the truck so that no one is injured. At this point in time, he can not foresee the changes that will occur in the present after the butterfly effect.
In a changed reality, he finds himself and is beside himself when he realizes that his girlfriend is alive. Both have a nice evening. At work, however, he notices that not everything is going right professionally. His rival got promoted sooner than he and is slowly but surely ruining the company. After an emotional expression of opinion, Nick is dismissed. Back at home, he finds a photo on the refrigerator showing his company's Christmas party. His current superior can also be seen. Once again he travels back in time, this time to give his career a boost. He succeeds in doing this by pouring wine on his future boss and stealing important documents from his filing cabinet.
Back in the present, Nick notices that fate was kind to him and that he has now been named vice president of the company. He can hardly believe his new happiness and drives his luxury car to his new apartment. Once there, he is surprised that his great love is not home yet. At a business meeting in the restaurant, he is surprised in the toilet by his boss's daughter. They both have an affair. On the way home he is cut to length by his friend Trevor, who reported that a certain Malcolm from him 250,000 US dollars reclaimed and threatens him. Nick also learns that he broke up with Julie a long time ago. To help his friend, he asks his employer to pay off Malcolm's investment early. However, his boss has no financial reserves left because the company is bankrupt. At the handover location, a nightclub, Nick meets his old friend Julie by chance and is horrified to discover that she has a new lover. During the business part of the meeting, he offers Malcolm ten percent of the money as a bonus payment, but Malcolm does not accept it and kills Nick's friend Trevor. Nick tries to escape from the club and is followed by Malcolm's bodyguard. In the crowd, Nick meets Julie, who is tragically struck in the back by a shot from the pursuer's pistol and dies in his arms. After trying in vain to provoke a jump in time with the help of a photo in his cell phone, and then being overwhelmed by the bodyguard, Nick wakes up in Malcolm's apartment, where he is held by a business partner of the club owner. However, he manages to escape. He then takes solace from his mother, who tells him that his behavior is similar to that of his father, who ultimately killed himself. He decides to jump in time again to finally help everyone.
At the last time jump he finds himself in the opening scene at the lake. Unlike the first time, he tells his friend Julie that she should rather go to New York to pursue her passion, art. She can't believe Nick wants to part with her, tells him that she is pregnant by him, and then escapes in his car. Nick remembers that the tire is about to blow and follows him with a car stolen from the parking lot. He catches up with Julie, but fails to convince her to stop the car. While he is driving next to her car, a car comes towards him. During the subsequent evasive maneuver, Nick strays off the track, flies down a slope and dies. In the last scene, you see Julie picking up her son, whom she named Nick, and he looks curiously at the picture that was taken at the lake. The photo begins to deform.
criticism
"Solidly staged, but woodenly played science fiction film with a few logical dropouts."
Prequel and sequel
Relation to the first part
The reference to the film Butterfly Effect is limited to a small scene: After the first jump in time, Nick cannot believe his luck and does extensive research on dreams and similar topics on the Internet. He found a newspaper article about Jason Treborn, the father of the protagonist from the previous film.
continuation
On January 9, 2009, the third part of the Butterfly Effect series appeared in the USA : Butterfly Effect 3 - The Revelation (original title: Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations ). In Germany it was released on November 20, 2009, like the second part, directly on DVD and Blu-ray . This part tends towards horror films and is rated as FSK 18. It is also independent of the other parts.
Web links
- Official website with trailer (German)
- Official site with trailer (English)
- The Butterfly Effect 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Butterfly Effect 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 896 DVD).
- ↑ Butterfly Effect 2. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .