Not To Good, Not To Bad...

Rating: 6/10 (1 July 2009)

A year after the events in the previous film, Final Destination 2 picks up with a brand new band of characters. In place of the horrific plane crash premonition, it hits us with something more common in all our lives, an enormous pile up on the highway. Once again a lone girl sees this disaster before it occurs and saves a this time random group of strangers from dying a most hideous death. The characters are a bit more diverse in this sequel but some of them feel dull and unreal more of you can tell that these people are actors. The script is still strong though, keeping those clever death scenes and tricks that I loved from the first film. Duely noted this film contains much more gore then it's predecessor. Making the fancy dress up that the first film had and striping it a bit to seem more like a slasher. Also unlike it's predecessor this one moves quite fast with the story. At some points making it feel rushed and a bit far fetched. Ami Larter returns to play Clear from the first film but with a completely new Sigorny Weaver style (as I like to call it) attitude being an expert on death's little Bobbi traps it sets. It introduces a new idea of how to stop the cycle of death and begins to fill in unanswered questions taking away the mystery of the first film. It did seem at first that this film would follow the same patter as the last and it does but the new ideas keep it refreshing enough to watch. It stick precariously close to the first films script as in character's personality's and clever little puns. But now on to the part that pulls most of it's fans in and thats the gore, I mentioned before there is a lot, and the deaths to accompany them are a bit more far fetched taking the great this could happen to you out from most of the scenes, but I feel all that is made up for in the incredible opening sequence of her premonition. Not a great sequel but certainly not a bad one.
6/10