It works

Rating: 5/10 (6 February 2004)

CONTAINS SPOILERS (for both movies)
I liked the first movie, it wasn't great but it never pretended to be. This one is much the same.
The concept works, and it works not because you care for the characters, you won't. It's because the deaths are so violent and abrupt that you get nervous waiting for them to happen.
Although the dialogue and thoughts on death with everyone retelling stories got annoying. The characters only need to be scared sh*tless, (you don't need them spouting their philosophies on death).
I still think it works - the film acknowledges the audience is trying to work out how each person dies and tries to play with that expectation. That tension, and the fact the movie knows its limits means I'd watch a 3rd 'Final' Destination - although next time some more humor would help make it that much more tense. And who knows we may even get to like the characters before they die horribly.