3/5 Lock those piano wheels!
  by sft (UK)
This movie is a somewhat confused, mish-mash of ideas that plays like a cross between The Sixth Sense and Final Destination. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense and the plot unravels badly towards the unconvincing ending, but the effects are pretty good and the story works reasonably well for the first hour or so. This is a perfectly watchable movie, despite the aforementioned shortcomings, and the effects are impressive most of the time and do cause a few jolts. Overall, not bad but not especially good. Oh, and there's a none-too-subtle reference to Don't Look Now.

2/5 Contrived
  by Nathan Christian (New Stanton, PA USA)
Well acted, but very situation contrived. That took away from the whole concept for me. The plot involves the grand concept of that when people are to die, they should die when they are supposed to. And if you try to change the course of things, there will be a price. So being that said, you know everyone is going to die. Every scene is predictably manipulated for the obvious out come. No surprises.

It does have some well crafted scenes. The balcony piano scene is VERY well done.....reminds me of In Dreamswhen Annette Benning falls from the bridge.

For a rental, it's cool. Actors are wonderful...but a weak, contived plot ruins it.

2/5 Worse than the first film
  by Sharon Levenson (new jersey)
In white noise 2 a seemingly happy family ,man,wife & child,suddenly experience a tragic turn at the hands of a deranged man..While at a diner having lunch the wife and child suffer from some sudden convulsive malady..Just as suddenly a stranger walks up to them and shoots them both..Instead of also killing the husband the stranger apologises and turns the gun on himself..So begins the direct-to-video "sequel"to "white noise"
The distraught husband attempts suicide only to be brought back after being clinicly dead,and thereafter becomes able to"see" which folks are about to die..He saves a few ,finds out that the fellow who gunned down his wife and child did not die from his own self-inflicted wounds but is alive and in a mental institution...
It is at this point that"white noise 2" goes horribly wrong,introducing bizarre religious symbolism,half-baked bible interpretation,and satanic intervention into the mix,dragging the film into a mire of idiotic proportions...Sure,I know,it's only a movie,and one that never played on the big screen to boot,but,really...If someone has all of the money that was wasted on this film to spare why not use it to feed the hungry or something similiar,rather than using it to make this most absurd film..
The production values were quite good,but production values alone do not a decent feature film make..No..What is needed from the get-go is a coherent script,and not something that zig-zags all over the place,making little or no sense whatsoever..I feel sorry for the actors and actresses..They did thier best,but in the end,thier best was not good enough...

5/5 Way Better than the Original
  by J. Wilson (Ohio)
This was way better than the first one, but it did seem like a whole another movie.

4/5 SAVING THE DEAD
  by Mark Turner
Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) watches as a total stranger walks up and shoots his son, his wife and then himself. Shocked, he mourns the loss of his family uncontrollably until he can take it no more and attempts suicide. But as he makes his way into that ever spoken of white light, doctors resuscitate him and he returns to the land of the living.

Thus begins a tale that seems to be headed one direction before it takes a disastrous turn. Now returned to life, Nathan begins to see auras around various people he encounters, including a doctor attempting to help him. The doctor describes the things Nathan sees and hears as a form of EVP or electronic voice phenomena (a phenomena paranormal researchers actually use).

But things go bad as the people he sees begin to die. Nathan realizes that he has the ability to save their lives and begins doing so, including a young nurse who consoled him in the hospital.

That nasty twist? It seems that once you save someone's life you become responsible for all actions taken thereafter. And since they were taken away from their time to die, they turn around and kill others. As Nathan digs deeper into the man who killed his family's past, he discovers him alive. He also finds out that the man was doing so only because he had saved them earlier. And they would have become killers just like the others he had saved.

Faced with this knowledge, Nathan must now go out and find those that he helped and stop them from killing. Caught in the conundrum of realizing he must take life when his whole goal was to save them, the moral questions Nathan deals with make this movie a complex thriller that keeps you in suspense.

Fillion turns in a wonderful performance, as he always does. The goal of an actor is to not seem to be acting and in all I've had the fortune of seeing him do, I've felt that in each role even when he faces the afterlife or squishy monsters (as in SLITHER). The rest of the cast performs just as well in a story that seems incredible but at the same time somehow believable.

Your views on the afterlife may not change after watching this film. But for the time you spend watching it, you will wonder what you would do in the same situation. And you will wait to find out just what happens to Nathan Dale and those whose lives he touched.