Final Destination 2

Weniger Stimmung, eine kompliziertere und unübersichtlichere Handlung als im ersten Final Destination. Auch hektischer, gelassener und Popcorn-mäßiger, mit einem Hauch vom schwarzen Humor. Ein ziemlich brutaler Gore. Und dazu die beste Szene der ganzen Trilogie – der Kettenunfall am Anfang wurde bravourös aufgenommen! (09.04.2003)

It’s just porridge. If you take away the well-directed and well-thought-out murders, all you're left with is a silly plot. Some of the murders are indeed exhibitionistic (I had to watch the log fly through the police car during the opening set-piece twice in a row, it's not something you see every day), but the fascination with death, even if perfectly staged, is otherwise completely beyond me. (17.10.2004)

A recycled version of a good idea, but here it doesn’t work very well. The only positive things here are the original and absolutely freaky deaths. Okay, sometimes they are too excessively over-combined, but always really gory. Nothing else about Final Destination 2 is worth mentioning. Only perhaps the completely dumb screenplay, but that’s to be expected, isn’t it? (11.03.2005)

If I wrote with the first installment that the screenwriters are killing off their characters with morbid humor, I don't know what to write here because the various deaths have now reached more or less amusing extremes (see the cables that no one pulls out). However, the creators could at least try to modify the plot instead of transparently copying it. The first anniversary of the flight or rescuing passengers from a crash à la "I see a crash, so I'll step on the gas even more forcefully" doesn't really add to the experience. When clichés begin to sink deeper and all the dialogue about "Death collecting on its debts" seem very funny, your interest in the next installments wanes. The first one looks much better compared to its sequel. (30.04.2006)