Awful Conclusion to Final Destination

Rating: 3/10 (26 November 2003)

A movie that took the teenage splatter flick in new directions is put to rest here by a sequel which returns to the usual improbable setups and warped laws of physics to burn, slice, and squish teenagers in ways you've never seen.
FD1 had immensely imaginative death traps, which could almost always be completely construed as freak accidents. FD2 stretches credibility in that field - a man who's hand gets caught in a stopped garbage disposal while his apartment burns down around him? (Has this EVER happened to ANYONE?) Barbed wire that can tear through human bone? (By the way, that was from Cube.) And has NO driver in this movie ever heard of using brakes?? By the end, ideas have run short and the movie breaks all the rules it has established to kill off the last character (Eugene).
Speaking of breaking rules, what is with the cop's gun which can now evade basic physics, because it isn't part of "death's design"? Since it suggests invincibility until "your number is up", then why wouldn't you go out and just have an all-out joyride until you became "next".
Splatter films only work because you can see and relate to the psyche of the characters. Once the circumstances of the situation become completely irrational, it fails to scare or entertain.