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Final Destination 2 begins with a well-orchestrated multicar pileup on a
freeway--a horrifying accident that turns out to be a premonition, as seen by
a young woman (A.J. Cook) who saves herself and several other people by
blocking a freeway on-ramp. Thus, as in the first Final Destination, a
prescient vision disrupts the destined plans of death, and death goes to
extreme lengths to correct matters. What makes Final Destination 2
entertaining is that the characters can only survive by learning to recognize
the signs of impending doom--and the signs are basically the cinematic
foreshadowing that moviemakers use to invoke suspense. This, combined
with some elaborately complicated and gruesome deaths, fosters a ghoulish
humor that's more entertaining than the smirky self-referentiality of Scream.
Final Destination 2 doesn't aspire to be a great movie, but trash has its
pleasures. Also featuring Ali Larter as the only survivor of the first movie.