White Noise 2
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Actor: Adrian Holmes, Nathan FillionBrand: FILLION,NATHAN
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
Published: 2008-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of White Noise 2
DVD Review: My Thoughts on White Noise 2
Summary: 1 Stars
If you're reading this, I'm assuming you've seen the film. Due to this assumption, spoilers follow, so consider yourself warned.
If you haven't seen the film ... consider yourself lucky.
White Noise 2 has been called "a retarded Sixth Sense", a charge that offends both the mentally disabled and anyone who even moderately enjoyed the Sixth Sense.
While my expectations for any direct-to-DVD movie are understandably low, watching White Noise 2 actually lowered my standards to heretofore unknown depths.
From the Scooby Doo scares to the incredibly poor CGI effects, this movie claims its rightful place in bargain bins around the world and as a featured selection during Amazon's frequent $5 DVD sales.
Occasionally, bad films can also be fun films. That is not the case here. This film is so earnest in its attempt to be morose that it even renders poor Captain Reynolds unfunny, something I thought impossible. There are few things more off-putting than ludicrous trash that tries to play it straight.
After the movie was over, I played a game with myself called, "Which is More Ridiculous?", in which I evaluated certain aspects of the film in order to come to a conclusion about which, among the many absurd elements contained in the film, was actually the most asinine:
Is it the doctor with the goatee and the earring who likes Elvis (he's got Elvis memorabilia everywhere! It's a character trait, see?) and runs a grant-sponsored "ghost monitoring" program, complete with requisite multi-monitor uber-hacker station recently borrowed from Kevin Smith's character from Live Free or Die Hard?
Is it that said uber-hacker station resides in the laundry room of your average suburban hospital?
Could it be that a man who attempts suicide can just walk out of a hospital, no questions asked? Or that said hospital has possibly the worst security of all time? A woman is brutally attacked and nearly abducted in the parking garage, and no one is the wiser. Nathan Fillion acts like a suspicious lunatic in the hallway, nobody says, "boo".
Could it be Nathan Fillion's silly urban hoodie / suit combo that he wears for more than half of the movie?
Maybe it's that the entire plot hinges around one character's bible-slash-journal which actually contains entries like a picture of the devil with the caption, "Lucifer?" Or maybe that said character (a convicted murderer) has been in an asylum for three months, and yet his home computer is still on and the screen immediately shows the last thing he was looking at? Or that his son is playing Sly Cooper, a PS2-era game on a 52 inch screen? Doesn't that kid know any better?! Hello, jaggies!
Or perhaps how the director loved certain shots so much that he shows them multiple times from different camera angles, to show us how totally rad they are? How many times do we have to see a piano fall on top of people? The answer, sir or madam, is three times. How many times must we see a bicycle-riding ghost go right through a car? Twice, because it's that cool.
Given all of this, it's clear that this movie should have been called White Noise 2: The Lamening (pronounced lay-men-ning), due to the huge helpings of lame it serves up at every turn. The plot is horrid. The pacing is turgid. The dialogue is insipid. The score is haphazard and an annoyance at best. The makeup effects were leftovers from The Frighteners (a better movie).
I submit to you that White Noise 2: Electric Boogaloo would have also been an appropriate name, as it would have tied into the whole EVP nonsense, and also indicated what a monstrous stinker this film is. The tagline should have been: You Won't See It Coming, Because You Won't Care.
There is, however, one redeeming quality to this movie. During one of the scenes, there is a promotional poster for John Carpenter's The Thing on the wall. Thinking of classic moments from that better, smarter film is what got me through this one.
To the folks posting 4 star reviews on here and dismissing the lameness as a by-product of the horror genre, allow me to point you towards the above movie as an example of how things are done right.
Description of White Noise 2
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 8-JAN-2008
Media Type: DVD
An in-name-only sequel to the 2005 supernatural thriller with Michael Keaton, White Noise 2 mixes two well-documented paranormal experiences--EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and NDE (Near Death Experience)--in its story of an unusual gift granted in the wake of a tragedy. The likable Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Desperate Housewives) stars as a man whose near-death experience following the murder of his wife and son grants him the ability to see a halo around those whose death is imminent. Naturally, he sets about to prevent these untimely demises, but discovers that tampering with predestination attracts the attention of sinister forces. Professionally lensed and heavy with visual effects (as well as one impressive set piece involving a falling grand piano), White Noise 2 is buoyed by Fillion and Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica, The Bionic Woman) as the cheery nurse who helps him deal with his grief; unfortunately, they're stuck with a dreary and overly complicated script that attempts to assimilate far too many horror movie clichés into one picture. Extras include a whopping 33 minutes of deleted scenes, interviews with real-life individuals who have endured NDE, a short making-of featurette, and a walking tour with Fillion of the allegedly haunted asylum that served as one of the film's locations. -- Paul Gaita
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