As Middle Of The Road As A Sequel Can Be...

Rating: 5/10 (21 February 2003)

In this follow up to the sleeper hit "Final Destination," in which
death comes to claim survivors of a plane crash according to it's
own design, death comes back with a vengence, but his design
seems to be terminally flawed.
A lot of horror movie enthusiasts will most likely subscribe to the
fact that a good horror film means that anyone can die at any time,
but what set the original apart was the fact that death had a
specific pattern. In this movie, despite set pieces just as elaborate
as the original (including a scene in a dentist's office that is
terminaly creepy), death seems to have lost any reason or rhyme;
becoming a killer on the level of a third rate Michael Myers.
This time around death stalks the survivors of a horrendous
freeway pileup after a young woman has premonitions that the
accident was going to occur. The people that she saved become
skeptical, death comes calling...you get the idea.
Not that there isn't fun to be had in this movie. It is quite
entertaining, but at the same time it is easy to see that this is a far
inferior clone of a much better and far more suspensful movie.
While the first film had both style and substance, this one is all
about the latter.