Final Destination Two never gets there

For the most part, people who make horror films don’t like to bother too much with small details like acting ability, decent dialogue or plain common sense. Final Destination 2 is a perfect example of this.

A sequel to the modest Final Destination about death stalking a handful of teenagers who escaped a plane crash that was supposed to kill them, the film wastes the first 10 minutes following several unidentified, unrelated drivers as they unknowingly head towards a fiery motorway pile-up.

The carnage is played out in its entirety before it’s revealed that the whole thing was a premonition. Kimberly (A.J. Cook), foresees the bloodbath and blocks an on-ramp to save the lives of the people featured in her premonition.

The survivors, however, soon realise that their reprieve may only be temporary, and when they start dying one by one in bizarre accidents, they band together to try and beat death one more time.

By the time the film reaches its fairly predictable ending, it’s hard not to find yourself siding with death. Anyone who inflicts this kind of rubbish on audiences deserves a gruesome ending.

Horror, 18. *