Final Destination 2 2003

Critics score:
48 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It contains some of the most brain-dead people a screenplay has ever produced. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Entertaining enough to make you forget that you're watching little more than death warmed over. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: When a horror flick gets tedious, it's DOA. Read more

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Loren King, Chicago Tribune: FD2, despite some imaginative fatalities, is less a movie than a slick video game. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Once you get past its supremely nonsensical title, Final Destination 2, a smooth and sharp slice of teen-gothic cheese, is kind of fun. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: The movie is a real jolter for horror fans who like the charge of gory images but also demand a certain level of intelligence in the proceedings. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly: Opens with a horrific traffic accident, which seems apt since what follows is the cinematic equivalent of rubbernecking. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: Final Destination 2 doesn't pretend to be anything other than a robotic repeat of the first film. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: It has a sense of humor ... but in the end is overwhelmed by its silliness. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Bloody, graceless and surprisingly effective. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: If you think of all this as an elongated Three Stooges short with bones breaking and membranes splashing, maybe it will go down easier. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The movie mandates complete gullibility and vacuous attention in order to work on any level. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Takes a good idea from the first film and pounds it into the ground, not to mention decapitating, electrocuting, skewering, blowing up, incinerating, drowning and gassing it. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Read more

C.W. Nevius, San Francisco Chronicle: You'll gasp, you'll flinch, you'll cringe, but mostly you'll scream. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Daphne Gordon, Toronto Star: The filmmakers clearly set out to make a film that featured lots of footage of really disgusting annihilations, then threw together a haphazard script and hired a few hot actors to play the corpses. Read more

Time Out: Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: That there is an audience for a movie in which innocent people suffer hideous accidental deaths is troubling enough, but that a group of creative people chose to direct their energies on this repulsive spectacle simply provokes disgust. Read more

Robert Koehler, Variety: Suffers from the same rancid dialogue and acting problems as the original but with a much funnier pulse. Read more

Justine Elias, Village Voice: It's hard to root for a heroine ... who wails, 'It's a sign! Nora and Tim are going to be attacked by pigeons!' Read more