The Butterfly Effect 2

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The Butterfly Effect 2
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Directed by John R. Leonetti
Written byMichael D. Weiss
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBrian Pearson
Edited by Jacqueline Cambas
Music by Michael Suby
Distributed by New Line Cinema
Release date
  • October 10, 2006 (2006-10-10)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$966,458 [1]

The Butterfly Effect 2 is a 2006 American science fiction psychological thriller film directed by John R. Leonetti and starring Eric Lively, Erica Durance, Dustin Milligan and Gina Holden. The film is largely unrelated to the 2004 film The Butterfly Effect and was released direct-to-video on October 10, 2006. It is followed by The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009).

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The film grossed $966,458 in box office and $2.9 million in home video sales. [2] [3] The film received generally negative reviews, with reviewers criticizing its formulaic copy of the first film, simply with different characters.

Plot

Nick and his girlfriend, Julie, are celebrating Julie's 24th birthday with their friends Trevor and Amanda. Nick and Julie start to discuss their future when Nick is urgently called into work. He has to go to the meeting because he is up against co-worker Dave Bristol for a promotion. As the four friends drive back to the city, their vehicle collides with a semi-truck. Of the four friends, only Nick survives. Later, when he is looking at a photograph of himself and Julie, everything in the room begins to shudder and shake, while the people in the photograph begin moving.

One year later, while presenting an important sales pitch to investors, Nick suffers a blinding headache and outrageous nosebleed. As a result, he is given a week's suspension. Back home, Nick looks through photographs from Julie's birthday and somehow manages to transport himself back to the moment just before the fatal collision. This time, he knows how to avoid the accident, and he awakens in a new timeline where Julie is living happily with him. However, in this reality, Nick's life is ruined when he is fired for backing up his friend and colleague Trevor.

Later, Nick sees a Christmas photograph of him, his friends and colleagues, and realizes that this was the point at which a crucial deal was made, resulting in Dave's promotion. Nick decides to try to alter this in his favor, so he concentrates on the photo in order to trigger another episode. Sure enough, he finds himself back at the party.

After deliberately spilling a drink on Dave to distract him, he finds the paperwork for the crucial deal. Nick then returns to the present in a new version of reality. In this reality, Nick is the vice-president of the company, but he and Julie have split up and he is living the bachelor lifestyle. Also, Trevor and Nick end up on the wrong side of a shady investor; the company is broken due to failed deals, and the investor, infuriated by a lack of results, kills Trevor, who borrowed money from him. In the course of trying to escape a similar fate, Nick runs into Julie just as one of the investor's armed henchmen tries to shoot him but shoots her instead. Nick is rendered unconscious before he can go back in time once again. He awakes in the bedroom of the investor's business partner, but he manages to kill him and escape. Nick confesses everything to his mother, who tells him that he cannot "control everything". She says his father also tried to control things (implying in the process that his father had the same ability previous to Nick) but ultimately committed suicide.

Nick transports himself to the scene from the start of the movie, hoping to finally fix everything by breaking up with Julie. However, he did not plan on how upset she would be – and she confesses to being pregnant and speeds away in his car. Fearing a similar accident as the original, Nick speeds after her, but while avoiding an oncoming car, he opts to save Julie rather than himself by driving off the road and over a cliff.

One year later, Julie lives in New York City with her son, Nick Jr., who seems to have the same affliction as his father.

In a series of flickering flashbacks that run during the end credits, an unidentified man (who is presumably Nick's own father) is shown grappling with mental illness – presumably brought on by the progressive brain damage that the time-traveling causes to its user with each use – and eventually committing suicide. In the last of the flickering images, Nick himself is shown recovering in a hospital bed from serious injuries.

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Critical reception

The Butterfly Effect 2 was met with negative reviews. Reviewers claim that the sequel adds nothing to the message of the first movie, covering exactly the same ground with different characters. With a limited temporal scope, the story of this movie isn't as intertwined as the first. Also, the less-impressive special effects and very short filming time combine to give the movie a much less impressive feel than the original. [4] It received a negative reception from Reel Film Reviews, which called it "An abominable, pointless sequel." [5]

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References

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  2. ↑ "The Butterfly Effect 2". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  3. ↑ "The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. ↑ "The Butterfly Effect 2". RottenTomatoes.com .
  5. ↑ Nusair, David. "The Butterfly Effect 2". Reel Film Reviews. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
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