Final Destination 2 reminds me a lot of Halloween 2. Was there really a reason or need for another? I guess not, but, if you were determined to make one, if it absolutely needed to be done, this is as good as it’s going to get. Fans of the first will enjoy getting more. Specifically, more spectacular deaths. Isn’t that the reason you’re checking it out?

One year after the first film, Kimberly Corman (A.J. Cook) is driving with her friends when she has a premonition: a hideous car pileup will cause them and dozens of others to die. When Kimberly freaks out and prevents several of the people from getting on the highway, she interferes with Death’s “plan”. Now the survivors must figure out a way to escape their seemingly inescapable deaths.

The film starts with a bang. That car pileup Kimberly foresees is spectacular; easily the most impressive wreck I’ve ever witnessed in a film. It doesn’t matter that it’s “undone” by her interference. The kills that follow are so varied, so crazy they push the limits of what an R-Rated horror movie means. When this film's protagonists bite the dust, they're mega dead. You’re lucky if there’s enough of them left to fill a gym bag.

In many horror films, a bigger body count and gorier deaths is a sign of a franchise progressing towards trouble. Since you can't recreate the scares of the original, give the audience more blood and guts, right? What makes Final Destination 2 different is that director David R. Ellis saw an opportunity. The deaths in the first film were all plausible but improbably. Everything just happened to fall into place a little bit too nicely. This film makes it clear: Death is upset that its plan got messed up and is taking the opportunity to have fun. There are some sick bits of irony as people's deaths are caused by mundane things and clues of their incoming demises are foreshadowed. This film makes the right decision to be frequently funny, poking fun at the far-out premise before you get the chance to.

You’ve got some laughs, there are bits of good suspense as the Rube Goldberg-like chains of events unfurl, and the kills are both varied and impressive. A few elements prevent the film from being better than the first. Firstly, you don’t get attached to this cast as you did the original survivors. With the characters quickly figuring out what’s going on and no premise needing to be introduced, you'd think we’d get to know them better than the people in Final Destination, but you don’t. This time saved is counterbalanced with more people to bump off. I’ve also got mixed feelings about the lack of recurring characters. There is a nice little bit where they mix things up here (if you remember the ending of the first film, two people were left alive) and I can’t say too much without spoiling things. It’s not necessarily bad, as having 2 people informing this new group of survivors that they are going to die would be somewhat redundant, but there was a missed opportunity to do more. I’ll also add that Cook does not have the same acting chops as Devon Sawa, who was terrific at making you believe he was mourning the death of his friends while fighting for his life.

Unlike the first, Final Destination 2 is strictly for horror enthusiasts. That does not make it a bad movie. As a direct sequel to Final Destination, this 2003 horror flick is probably as good as you could get. The special effects are jaw-droppingly good, there’s a lot of imagination in the money shots and it mixes the dark laughs with the suspense effectively. (On Blu-ray, August 22, 2016)

It’s all a game created by death. That’s why in each movie there’s different rules and different ways to do things.

In the fifth final destination which is later revealed to be a prequel is why the main character can’t really see a lot. Death is still figuring shit out and what hes gonna make them do which is why he can’t really see many things only the accident at the beginning. That’s why the rule in death is that if you kill someone then you get their remaining life span. That’s the rule in death for this one. And that’s why he was able to save someone which was Molly in the vision.

Then In the first final destination is why he can really see the signs more. And why Clear can too. Both people can see the signs but only Alex can see the accident happening. Also the rule here is that if someone intervenes with another persons death then they skip them and move on to the next person like it did with Carter and it went on to Billy.

Then in the second one the girl sees more and is able to actually feel the next person dying like how they’re gonna die. While everyone else can also see signs she can feel and see them too. That’s why it like goes backwards because death changed the game. It’s going backwards and that’s why it skipped over the girl considering that the cop intervened. Deaths rule here is that if you die and then come back then the whole entire thing is over because you got a new life.

Then in the third one the girl can really only see what’s gonna happen. The others can see the pictures. That’s the whole thing it’s the pictures. It’s like the first one where if you intervene then it skips you and goes to the next person. Then that’s why the movie also has an option to do a choice game inside the movie because that’s all it is. A game.

Then in the fourth final destination movie that’s why the main character can feel and even see more on how everyone’s going to die. The signs are more obvious. It’s basically you can’t commit suicide like the first one unless it’s your time which is why the black guy couldn’t die. Like that’s probably why the talk about like oh you know maybe we didnt cheat death maybe we were supposed to die right here. For that movie it’s true because those are the rules. But that’s why also in this one the main character is able to see more because death figured out most things of what it wants to do and it’s basically making it more Intense.

It’s basically a ripple effect.

If the main characters in the fifth final destination movie had died on the bus then the next four movies wouldn’t have happened because they all would’ve died the exact moment they were supposed to and no one would’ve had the visions. But since death wanted to play a game and make trouble they decided to make the characters have visions which I’m pretty sure death didn’t plan on having a ripple effect which is why it kept making things more intense and harder to beat because in the first final destination the two main characters survive and then in the second one they do too but after the third one no one survives.