Final Destination 2 ~ Film Review
Three years after what I consider to be a smash hit, Final Destination 2 hit the world. This film followed the same premise with an entirely new cast of doomed youth, save Ali Larter in return as Clear and Tony Todd as the creepy coroner. If it isn’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
Protagonist Kimberly and her friends head out for Daytona but are interrupted when she sees a vision of a freeway pileup leading to mass casualties. After her suspicion proves accurate, she and a random assortment of people do their best to cheat death.
This sequel had an uphill battle from the start because I loved the first one. And despite their best efforts to reference the first one and even tie the story into the original characters through a series of convoluted twists and turns, it just wasn’t the same. It didn’t help that they “kill off” Alex in an idiotic way between the first and second film. It is always lovely when a sequel recognizes its origins, but I felt this film tried too hard. There was something magical about the characters in the first film; their chemistry bounced off the screen, and you cared about them. The characters are shallow and poorly developed in this rendition, leaving the audience feeling nothing for them or their demise. Plus, unlike the first one, which featured a group of high school students, these people have almost no connection to each other.
