Review – Final Destination 2

I’m not sure what drew me to the sequel, inasmuch as I’m already on record as not regarding the original as one of the great moments in American cinema. Guess I was just in the mood for a cheap horror movie. And on that front, mission accomplished. Some of the gore wasn’t too terrible in a “dude, you just got blowed up” kind of way. But beyond that much of the production is nothing short of annoying. Sympathetic characters are in short supply, and many of the suspense scenes are so laboriously constructed that they almost descend to self-parody. I was especially un-fond of the choking sequences that seemed to drag on and on and on. Perhaps I should applaud the film-makers for actually inspiring the physical sensation of suffocating, but by the end of this barker I wasn’t in the mood to dish out any brownie points in exchange for making me uncomfortable. See if desperate