Final Destination 2

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Movie
German title Final Destination 2
Original title Final Destination 2
Final Destination 2 Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director David R. Ellis
script Jeffrey Reddick
J. Mackye Gruber
Eric Bress
production Craig Perry
Warren Zide
music Shirley Walker
camera Gary Capo
cut Eric A. Sears
occupation
synchronization
chronology

←  Predecessor
Final Destination

Successor  →
Final Destination 3

Final Destination 2 is an American horror and fantasy thriller that was created in 2003 as a sequel to Final Destination .

The basic theme of the final destination series is outwitting fate. Visions of individual affected persons enable them to foresee the future. In this way, the death of different people is always prevented at first, but since the death was predetermined, death takes all of the victims one after the other.

action

Kimberly Corman is on vacation with friends. Just before they hit the highway , Kimberly has a terrible vision of a pile-up that kills numerous other people in addition to her and her friends. In a panic, Kimberly blocks the driveway and watches from a safe distance how the accident actually happened. Kimberly herself and the other drivers behind them who were killed in their vision escape the disaster. Her friends, however, are killed moments later when a truck hits the car they're sitting in.

But it quickly becomes apparent that death does not tolerate interference. Soon afterwards - everyone initially met and agreed to support one another - one of the survivors was killed in a bizarre chain reaction while fleeing a fire in his apartment when a fire escape fell on him, and a little later the 15-year-old son of a widow died on the forecourt of a medical center through a pane of glass falling to the floor. Both victims survived the accident on the highway. To escape death, Kimberly seeks advice from Clear Rivers, who once survived the Flight 180 disaster (see Final Destination ). Together, the remaining people saved by Kimberly's vision try to escape death. Still, shortly afterwards, the teenager's mother dies when her head is jammed in an elevator door and severed as the elevator starts moving.

The other survivors learn that they can only defeat death if "new life" is created. They find out that there is a pregnant woman named Isabella who also survived the accident on the highway. By having her arrested first, they want to prevent Isabella from dying before she gives birth to her child. But when her amniotic sac bursts in the cell and a policeman takes her to the nearest hospital, the chain of fatal reactions continues. The car of the remaining survivors and that of the policeman with Isabella almost collide. The survivors manage to bring the car to a stop on a farm. Kat, the trapped driver of the car, dies there when the airbag drives her head into a steel rod. Shortly afterwards, Rory, another survivor, dies when the explosion of a camera truck that is running out of gasoline blows a piece of barbed wire fence into the air, which divides him.

When pregnant Isabella gives birth to her child, they believe they have escaped death. But it turns out that Isabella would have survived the collision anyway and was only there by chance. Before they can intervene, the last outside survivor named Eugene, who was injured in the crash on the farm premises, and Clear Rivers, the protagonist of the first part, die in a gigantic explosion when gas containers ignite in Eugene's hospital room. When Kimberly has a new vision of herself drowning, she realizes the plot of death, rushes into a nearby lake in a van and dies. However, it is revived shortly afterwards, but, true to the principle "New life conquers death", death is apparently conquered.

They celebrate their victory with the farmer who helped them with the accident on his field. The farmer reports to Kimberly and Burke that Rory saved his son Brian's life shortly before his own death. Before Kimberly and Burke understand that at this point a new "death loop" began, which is limited to the farmer's son, the farmer dies in front of their eyes on the grill when it explodes. In the last scene you see the farmer's wife screaming and looking at her son's arm that has landed on her plate.

synchronization

The German dubbing was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH in Munich . Peter Stein wrote and directed the dialogue.

actor role Voice actor
Ali Larter Clear Rivers Karoline Guthke
AJ Cook Kimberly Corman Stephanie waiter
Michael Landes Officer Thomas Burke Florian Halm
Tony Todd William Bludworth Oliver Stritzel
Keegan Connor Tracy Katherina "Kat" Jennings Uta Kienemann-Zaradic
TC Carson Eugene Dix Charles Rettinghaus
Jonathan Cherry Rory Peters Oliver Mink
David Paetkau Evan Lewis Dominik Auer
Lynda Boyd Nora Carpenter Marietta Meade
James Kirk Tim Carpenter Manuel Straube
Justina Machado Isabella Hudson Sandra Schwittau
Sarah Carter Shaina McKlank Andrea Wick
Alejandro Rae Dano Estevez Stefan Günther
Shaun Sipos Frankie Whitman Jan Makino

Circumstances of death

  • Kimberly is rescued by a police officer shortly after the accident, her friends are rammed by a truck and burned in their car.
  • Evan's head is pierced in the right eye by a crashing fire escape. The type of death is already indicated when a magnetic letter falls from the refrigerator wall into the food, which then triggers the catastrophe. Now instead of HEYE there is only EYE (eye) on the refrigerator wall. Furthermore, he steps on a one-eyed doll beforehand.
  • Tim is shattered by a falling glass plate while trying to scare away some pigeons. The clues to this accident are mirror images of non-existent pigeons, which shortly before attacked the reflection of Kimberly on a window pane.
  • Nora is beheaded by an elevator door. The hint of death is a shadow caused by Rory when he opens a closet door and everything falls off the shelves and the image of a man with a hook opens up (the older man in the elevator has a dismantled mannequin with him, including an arm with a hooked hand heard).
  • Kat's head is pushed by her airbag into a pipe that was previously drilled through the headrest of her seat.
  • Rory is divided into three by a barbed wire fence that was thrown through the air by an explosion.
  • Eugene and Clear are burned to death in an explosion inside a hospital.
  • Brian is eventually torn to many pieces in a barbecue explosion.
  • In the alternative ending of Final Destination 3 , a newspaper report reveals that Kimberly and Thomas were cut up by a wood chopper after a chain reaction in a hardware store.

Connections with the first film

The accident on the highway happened exactly one year after the disaster on Flight 180.

In a later conversation, the survivors discover with Clear that they have all escaped death before. Leaving Flight 180 messed up death plans and had a far-reaching impact. These "changes" should be "reversed" by the fact that the sequence goes from back to front.

  • Eugene: Escaped a knife fight because he was transferred to another school two days earlier to replace Mrs. Valerie Lewton.
  • Officer Burke: Was dropped off at the scene of the accident where Billy Hitchcock died. As a result, he escaped a shootout that killed his partner.
  • Kat: Was on the bus that ran over Terry Chaney. As a result, she never arrived at the hotel, where all the guests were suffocated by escaping gas.
  • RORY: I was in Paris and watched Carter Horton get struck by a neon sign. Shocked, he then missed a theater performance that evening, during which the theater collapsed and all the audience died.
  • Kimberly: Had an appointment with her mom outside the mall. While her mother was shot dead there, she stayed inside to watch the television report of the (then believed) suicide of Tod Waggner.
  • Clear, the sole survivor of Flight 180, is killed in the explosion at Lakeview Hospital. This will skip Officer Burke, who would have been next in order.

criticism

  • In the Dallas Morning News , Matt Weitz describes the film Final Destination 2 as humorous, but criticizes the ending as exaggerated.
  • In the New York Times , critic AO Scott praised the film as entertaining, while Claudia Puig in her review for USA Today describes it as sad that creative minds waste their talent on such a film.

background

  • From the first part only Ali Larter as Clear Rivers and Tony Todd as the mysterious undertaker William Bludworth are included in the sequel , but the other main characters from the first part are also present in Final Destination 2 : newspaper articles and websites with their pictures are several times to see. The number 180 - this was the number of the plane that crashed in the first part - also appears several times in Final Destination 2 .
  • Like the first and third parts, Final Destination 2 was shot in the vicinity of the Canadian city of Vancouver .
  • In an older version of the script, Kat's death was supposed to happen later: while the people present stood anxiously around their car, the fireman removed the car's door. This frees Kat's legs. Everyone applauds and is happy, but suddenly the airbag opens and their head is rammed into the pipe in their headrest. The applause stops suddenly and everyone is traumatized.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Final Destination 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 171 V / DVD).
  2. ↑ a b German synchronous card index | Movies | Final Destination 2. Accessed August 8, 2019 .