Final Destination 2

On a road trip with her friends, Kimberly (Cook) is involved in a horrific multi-car pileup that sees numerous people lose their lives, or so she thought. She snaps back into reality only for the events she just witnessed to start playing themselves out again. Thinking to herself that she has to stop this, Kimberly blocks the on-ramp thus stopping all the people she just saw die getting on the freeway, as the accident happens right in front of their eyes. The problem is that they have now cheated Death but he doesn't let you go that easily.

The original Final Destination was one of the better Teen Horror flicks of recent years and as it was very successful, a sequel was inevitable. The only problem is that they have replaced all the tension of the first one with laugh-out-loud moments of pure comedy.

The movie starts off, as the original did, with a spectacular premonition. This time it is a freeway pileup, not a plane crash and the sequence is extremely good, setting the scene magnificently. After this however, it just becomes a waiting and guessing game on who will die next. This is where the problems start. The first movie had a certain amount of tension and brutality to each death scene that was quite scary but the sequel's sequences are just unintentionally funny. I found myself laughing every time someone met an untimely death and giddy in anticipation for the next comic marvel.

The cast, including the original's only survivor Ali Larter as Clear Rivers, do their best with what is quite a limited script but it does make a change that the victims are not all teenagers A.J. Cook as Kimberley does nothing but look beautiful and scream but at the end of the day, in this type of movie you don't want loads of character development, you just want to get to the next death as quickly as possible.

Final Destination 2 is a classic example of a horror movie sequel as it is just a retread of the original but what it does have going for it, quite unintentionally, is a laugh-out-load factor that makes it a really good corny popcorn flick and a lot better than it should have been.

Filmmaker's commentary, 'Bringing Death To Life' documentary, Deleted / Alternate scenes, Music videos, The Terror Gauge, 'Cheating Death: Beyond And Back' documentary, Choose your fate & Fact track

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