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The main reason to see "White Noise 2: The Light" is for Nathan Fillion's quietly powerful performance as Abe Dale, a man whose family is killed and who is himself brought back from the dead. The screenwriter Matt Venne is focused mostly on exposition and in some scenes you can practically see the storyboarding ("Abe looks down. Sees himself in the shattered mirror fragments") but despite this Mr. Fillion finds ways to inject nuance and emotion into wooden and often under-written scenes. The story is most intriguing in the first half of the movie, but less so when it shifts from Abe's personal experience to a broader canvas in order to explain what the heck is going on; still, there are some nice goose-bump moments and the last ten minutes are definitely provocative and hair-raising. If you like supernatural stories and want to see Nathan Fillion show he can play a troubled, normal, non-heroic guy, you should enjoy this one.

There are a lot of great things to be said about this movie, but that it deserves a 10 is definitely not one of them. Although the movie was paced well there are many holes in the storyline and in the plot also.

Nathan Fillion and Katie Sackhoff do very good jobs with their characters. As for caring about the characters you really don't get to know them that well aside from Abe.

The end of this movie well lets just say it borders on the cheesy and it left me thinking "what the".

There are many places that you will think "why did you do that" and "that was just mental" because it is in these areas that common sense should prevail, however that is not the case, and can be very frustrating. The movie at times is a little cliché, using cheap tricks to get cheap chills.

I felt i had to comment on this movie because of its 10 star rating when it is far from.

Watch this movie for sure however don't go into it as did expecting the best horror flick of the year and only getting an above average movie.

This movie has the potential to be a good horror. However, the typical flashing, grey type ghosts and predictable scares are disappointing. Why Hollywood continues to make high-budget horrors with these effects baffles me? They aim at viewers with weak dispositions rather than real horror fans. Hollywood needs to have a good look at foreign horror films and learn a lesson.

Nathan gives a good performance and in my opinion is the back bone to the entire movie. If they expanded on the dogmatic storyline a little more, it could have been more interesting.

I recommend this movie as a 'no-brainer' horror flick that will leave you fairly satisfied.

" I See Dead people " :) What happens if you had the power to save people from their deaths , only to find your actions have caused a reaction, a reaction that multiplies in its effects? What if those that you saved were meant to die? There are some slow love scenes that I guess have to be in a film, but other then that the movie is pretty much in constant motion.

Nathan Fillion is a cool actor, his particular acting style is very refreshing, i think any other actor would have made this film into a dodgy 2nd hand horror film.Those that liked 'Serenity' will enjoy this movie.

This is an above average movie with good acting and a decent script.

Great way to spend a night in, just make sure you have a hubby next to you so as you don't get too scared.

Do you even remember White Noise? It was a January 2005 release that grossed a very surprising $24 million in its opening weekend ranking it second only to the mega-hit Meet the Fockers. Starring Michael Keaton (who had not had a hit since he hung up his bat cape some 12 years earlier), the movie was about a grieving husband whose wife is trying to contact him through EVP's – Electronic Voice Phenomena.

Sure the movie grosses petered out in the weeks that lay ahead, but there was no escaping the EVP craze as everything from CNN to TLC had shows dedicated to the existence of the deceased communicating through television and radio frequencies.

Have memories of it or nay, there was no doubt that its $91 million worldwide take would generate an eventual sequel. Enter White Noise 2: The Light which went straight to DVD but deserves better in that it is a much spookier film than its predecessor.

White Noise 2 starts off by revealing that 'Nearly ten thousand people die every day in the United States, the majority of deaths occurring in urban environments. As such, a resident of a metropolis might encounter up to 1.7 people per day who will be deceased by the day's end. – North American Statistics Institute – 2002.' Barely do you have time to ingest these interesting words of ponder when we are introduced to the Dale Family – Father Abe (Nathan Fillion of Serenity fame), Mother Rebecca (Kendall Cross) and their son Danny who are in the wrong diner at the wrong time when a shooter walks in and opens fire killing both Rebecca and Danny before turning the weapon on himself.

Abe takes the deaths hard (go figure!) and tries to take his own life with an overdose of pills that produces a NDE (Near Death Experience). After his release from hospital, Abe starts to hear and see "all sorts of electrical stuff" that has his attending doctor interested in investigating. Lucky for Abe, the good ole doctor just happens to have an EVP room that looks like a command center for NATO. In a matter of mere seconds, the doctor is able to determine that due to Abe's NDE that he is now an EVP receiver (keep up with the acronyms will ya'!).

It takes a great leap of faith to believe that Abe can now see people illuminated before they die or that television sets are sending him messages, but if you ignore the illogic behind the expressed phenomena, you might just be able to get through the film with more enjoyment than a straight to DVD release usually allows.

Seeing the original White Noise is not a pre-requisite to enjoying the sequel. There is no tie in to the first film and where the original story was a man's quest simply to understand EVP's and then his obsession exploit it to find his wife's killer, the White Noise 2: The Light spends more time with Abe running around acting as a superhero in the city – saving people from impending death thanks to his visions of disastrous futures.

Although there are many reasons not to like White Noise 2, Nathan Fillion gives us a character so rich in turmoil and humor that his performance alone is worth spending a couple of bucks at the local rental shop. Even as the film takes a turn at about the 45 minute mark with a reveal that leads Abe to revisit the circumstances of his family's tragedy and his similarities with the killer, the film still maintains its eeriness.

White Noise 2 is directed by Patrick Lussier who directed three Dracula films and is in pre-production of the My Bloody Valentine remake (happy happy joy joy). Although no Carpenter – hell he ain't no Joe Dante – he does show promise in this production and is able to spook his audience without the use of gore. It will be interesting when he gets a script that holds better material than anything presently in his biography.

The ending of the film is something that might turn some from the recommending to the soon forgetting, but this is exactly the kind of film that they have been making in Japan for years that the western world keeps remaking.

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Nathan Fillion is a good lead and he is most of the reason that you will stay watching. The plot however is really bad! At first I thought it would give a spin to the original and would dazzle us. But in stead we get nothing. There are a lot of moments that suppose to scare us. To be honest these scares did nothing to me. I expected them so I didn't jump up like I was meant to. The whole plot is uninspired and boring. To say that this sequel is better than the original is not something I agree on. The original wasn't a very good movie either but at least it contained more surprises than this one. I also think that the first movie was more creepier. The use of special effects was very minimal and more effective. "White Noise 2" has to much special effects and kills the ambiance this movie desperately needs. Compared to other similar horror movies that came out this year "White Noise 2" is a major letdown. Miss this one!

Having watched the first white noise, which for me was a great film as it went against the conventional ending of all is well that ends well, i really had my hopes up high for the sequel. But as they say, sequels are most likely to be worse than the originals. And so it happened for me as well. The film in itself has some very good scares, especially in the beginning. I can't reveal the forms of these as it would spoil the movie, but trust me, they are really good. You do get used to them by the end though, as they have been overused. Other than that I will have to agree that the actors do not put in the best performance ever but then again the movie is not such that demands a high standard. The concept is interesting, as it has something of the first movie but with a twist. Oh and another thing, for those of you who might be superstitious or something, there is no such thing as 'tria mera' in Greek, it's 'triti mera', trust me, I'm Greek.

Nope. Even the adorable and charismatic Nathan Fillion couldn't save this clunker. I mean, don't get me wrong, it had its moments, but no matter how good the opening of a movie is, how subtle the acting and how intriguing the premise, nothing can save a film that is this determined to disappear up its own a$$.

Particularly squirmsome moments included the eminently wooden Craig Fairbrass coming to his grand conclusion re: the devil, Katee Sackoff coming to that all-so-bizarre conclusion *all by herself* and - wow - just accepting it? Really? And that oh-so-convenient news stand with the usefully clear front page picture of the recently murdered woman. Darn that was useful, and just as he was thinking about her.

Lazy lazy scriptwriting, woeful conclusions, hammy supporting performances. Nathan, I hope you have a better agent now.

Not even Nathan Fillion could save White Noise 2. This straight-to-DVD sequel has a ridiculous story and awful writing. Plus, it kept treating the audience like they were a bunch of idiots. There are a few cool stunts and some creepy imagery, but it's mostly just a waste of time.

I wasn't expecting anything too good but i was pleasantly surprised. This is fast paced, seems fairly believable and was genuinely creepy in places. The acting was pretty good too and you really felt for the characters. There were some nice twists and the film moved along at a nice pace.

I would have absolutely loved this if only it had a better/different ending. To me it just didn't make any real sense for the last few minutes and what sense i could make of it left too many loose ends and unanswered questions.

Still it deserves 8 of out 10 for being a superb film for the most part.

Well I'll be honest. The only reason I took interest in this one was because of Nathan Fillion. He's great in everything that he is in. Here, he's playing a different kind of role, but you never get to see that side of him come through. This movie has its moments, and the premise had a lot of potential. However, the actual film didn't measure up. About 1% of this movie is character development, and that sucks because I actually wanted to get to know these characters before the weird events of the movie took place. The other 99% is the director trying to cram this story into an hour and a half long movie. Also, seeing as how this movie has absolutely nothing to do with the original, I really don't see why it's called White Noise 2. I guess they just wanted to get the whole transmission after death thing off the ground quick and weren't interested in a new franchise. At any rate the pacing seems rushed which is a bummer because it could have been cool. I am a big fan of religious fiction movies, and that's what this movie is. Also, it's not really a horror movie. It has scary "jump" scenes, but it's more of a thriller, and it tries too hard at times to scare you when the story line isn't really supposed to be that kind of scary. If they had called the movie something else and if the director had had free reign over the production, I think it could have been good, but we don't really get to see Fillion or any of the actors become their characters. If you get into the story even a little bit, it works just not for very long.

White Noise was good. Good, but slow. And I mean very slow. I can see that the makers of White Noise 2 wanted to speed things up a bit to make the sequel a bit more exciting and much more scary. However, there is such a thing as moving too fast. The scenes seemed rushed and didn't have a single flow. When things got scary, the scene would slow down and have a nice pace. But in between these moments, the dialogue and the explanations were thrown at you at head-spinning speed. One incident would suddenly lead to an explanation almost as if they already knew what was going on. There was no hunt, only revelation. Another bad thing about this sequel was the acting. Most of the actors were good (i.e. the leads) but some of the others weren't so good. They seemed phony and none too sincere. Past all that, the movie was good. Tense, there were moments when my eyes were really wide, and i was on the edge of my seat. It was good at doing that, and even when i knew something was going to jump out, it still got me anyways (although i wasn't able to guess when every ghostly appearance was). Over-all, this one was much better than the first, and far more interesting.

Well i have never seen the original film, never wanted to, but my girlfriend and her mate all suggested we go out on Friday for a nice meal and to see a film, well i have pretty much seen everything thats been released in england, and so she had suggested this, now i though to myself, i didn't want to see the 1st 1, what makes we want to see this, well apart from the leading actor (Nathen Fillion) I'm a bloke and not gay, just like the stuff he has been in. it first starts off in a diner where Abe (Fillion) witness's his wife and son murdered, and at first i though oh god this looks like a straight to video type movie, but i was way off, this film is very jumpy (particulary the scene with the baseball bat) but i wont say to much. Acting was spot on, with apart from Nathen...there arnt any other recognised actors in it. I left the theatre feeling pretty damm good that i had seen a film that had bettered my expectations, and i would say hype but well there wasn't any ( unlike Pans Labrynth but thats another story) All in all a very good film that will have your better half clinging onto your arm within 5 Min's of the opening credits.

I almost didn't bother giving this movie 2 stars.

This movie was such a waste of time and money, but maybe I feel that way because I watched it shortly after watching 1408 which is a much better horror film (the best than I have seen in a long time).

Anyway, there seemed to be no real closure to the film, and the plot was so vague that most of the time you couldn't be sure what the whole point of the film was except to have a reason to put 20th century graphics into a 21st century film.

However if you are into 80s horror films then why don't you just rent Poltergeist and save yourself a lot of money.

Otherwise go see 1408!

when i heard white noise 2 i was like huh the first one sucked so much that the second must suck twice as much its science right? but when i heard Nathan Fillion would be in it my opinion went from not giving a crap to generally exited and then i heard Katie sack-off and i really wanted to see it. so on to the review this shouldn't be called white noise 2 its should be called white noise and have the original copies gathered together and burned then have a man hit each of us over the head until we forget it so that this movie wouldn't have low expectations. this movie was amazing it was well edited and a great idea and this would have made a great comic series adaptation. don't take my word for it go watch this movie the ending itself is worth the $ 6.00 rental price i only hope that Nathan Fillion makes some more movies because his characters are priceless.

After a botched suicide to rejoin his deceased wife, a man finds he can now see when people are about to die through an extrasensory perception of their life, but soon finds that saving them has a far deadlier consequence than he originally believed.

This here manages to be quite an intriguing effort that has a lot going for it. One of the main points here is the second-half twist that comes about, as the first part is mainly all about the strange ability that he discovers and how he goes about using it to save others. While those are quite fun, the fact that this second half manages to add a rather clever and chilling twist on everything that's come before allows it to venture off into far more enjoyable terrain by trying to stop the saved from ending what should've happened, as interfering isn't supposed to occur in the grand scheme of life uncovered, and how it's done is where the movie gets quite fun with the thrilling races to stop his own handiwork. Though the finale gets in some nice action and makes for a rush of an ending, it's far too fantastical to meld with the more serious attempts to mesh the supernatural and the normal that was being showcased before, and the fact that the saved already knew what was going to happen before they re-killed themselves made no sense, but overall this was pretty enjoyable.

Rated R: Violence and Language.

Words lose me on how atrocious this film truly was. It was so bad I think it gave me cancer. White Noise was bad enough; it started as an interesting concept but quickly descended into the depths of farcical nonsense. This film got going right from where its predecessor left off. Despite being a non-believer in the afterlife, occult, ghosts etc. as I'm sure many of you are, I still enjoy a good horror film about them - The Grudge being a good one or many other Oriental horror films. This film, however, relied solely on its use of the cheap fright, much in the same way the Final Destination films tried to. It doesn't even set the proper atmosphere before a decent fright or any clever way of introducing it - the film just simply stuck the lead character in situations, many of which reminded me of the 6th sense, and gave the audience no doubt as to when a scare was about to come. For me the lead actor was also about as into the role as the script would let him. He seemed to come to terms with his new found gift extremely quickly despite even losing his seeming "mentor" after just two scenes. At least the mentor in the first film got at least 20 minutes of screen time before being killed off. This film is really more of a disaster movie than a horror. I even only signed up for IMDb just to warn people away from this piece of (expletive). Stay away folks, the end is near if you watch this one. Most likely because you're gouging your eyes out after to relieve the pain.

Definitely don't let the lacklustre effort of the first White Noise film put you off seeing this creepy sequel.

Although the ties to static 'noise' from electrical appliances are stretched somewhat thinly (was this film written as a stand-alone then tied to 'White Noise' later???), this is a nice little horror film with loads of atmosphere and great performances.

Nathan Fillion (Sliver, Serenity) has a good 95% of the screen time and does a great job as a man whose family has been murdered in front of him. There are ghosts a-plenty and some nice 'can't mess with the future' themes - if you like the Final Destination movies, you're gunna love this.

Don't wait for DVD... this film is worth forking out to see at the cinema.

Call this a "White Noise" sequel and maybe you draw a few more viewers than you would if you called it something else. But this is not a true sequel, and maybe that's for the best as "White Noise" with Michael Keaton left much to be desired. In WN2, Nathan Fillion of "Firefly/Serenity" fame plays an average joe whose family is brutally killed in front of him. The plot is a bit convoluted, but what it boils down to is, in the aftermath of their deaths, Fillion discovers he can spot people who are about to die. He decides to play superhero and save them, only to find worse things follow when he does. Much worse things. The film's mood is properly eerie, and Fillion is nicely subdued as our haunted and confused hero. This is a Canadian flick, which means you won't recognize most of the cast. Good for a late night scare or two.

A man's family is killed and he is brought back from the verge of death, he then realizes he can identify people who are about to die.

You remember the first movie? You don't? Well, who could? How bad the first movie is, don't think about it when watching the second. I'm serious. If you don't want to watch this movie because you're afraid it would be as bad as the first, don't worry. This film is tons better!

So, in the first movie, you got a guy who can see people who is going to die, in televisions and by EVP. Yeah, it's just static and television and recording and all. That's mainly what the first movie is about.

Now in the second movie, they get the similar gist of the first one, but made the concept much more exciting and better and less boring. How? There's no recording, staring at a blank television, or listening to static throughout the movie. Instead, it's like the people in "Minority Report" who can see who is going to die. How? A white light shines on them!

Pretty neat, eh? At least its' much better than the concept from the first one. And, the movie looks much more interesting. The kills are great, as well as the special effects. Even the twists and turns throughout the film are more surprising than anything in the first film.

I also like the drama in the movie. This is because we get great performances by Nathan Fillion and Katee Sackhoff! What's the deal with people not wanting to watch movies with Nathan Fillon in it? He's in great movies!

Yeah, there are still the pop up scenes but here's the special thing: This movie is actually creepy. I like the eerie tone quality and some nice scary effects. Overall, it was a nice movie, but not too great though. If you like the first (who does?) than this will make the first movie look like trash!