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'FINAL DESTINATION 2' is deadly. Regurgitating the same plot as the first film, second time round it's a girl who has a startling premonition of a highway pile-up and who instantaneously alerts every car immediately behind her (in the slip-lane about to join the highway) of what she fears, so stopping them joining the gauntlet of fire that routinely erupts as predicted just seconds later. By doing that, the consensus comes to be that the people who she alerted and thus saved have in fact cheated death� and so 'death itself' pursues these 'survivors' one by one for the rest of the movie and kills them in due course, the only war of stopping the grisly killings conceived to be the birth of a baby.
This is an incredible concept, brilliantly and tensely executed, and it's neither a horror, thriller or comedy movie - but all three. If you don't usually associate yourself with the darkest twist of black comedy set in film though, you'd better beware of the inevitable, gut-yanking killings. The first victim has a ladder rupture his eyes big-style, one scatty woman loses her head in the lift, before a cocaine-snorting dude experiences cutting death by cheese wire.
Death comes to us all. Thank God we don't all come to pass in this much graphic, OTT pain.
(STEVE RUDD) |
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